Cuimhneacháin na n Imirceach CARNA

12/10/2026

Sharing from Údarás na Gaeltachta

12/10/2026

A Christmas tree built from aquaculture nets, buoys and sails will be lit at Cill Chiaráin on 11 December to fund a marine-themed sensory room.

02/10/2026

✈️ On the morning of June 15, 1919, people working at the Marconi wireless station near Clifden in Connemara saw an extraordinary sight. A large biplane came down out of the mist and landed nose-first in the nearby bog. Out climbed two exhausted airmen, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, who had just made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 🌊

The two British aviators had taken off from St John's in Newfoundland the day before in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber, hoping to win a prize offered by the Daily Mail for the first non-stop transatlantic crossing. Their journey lasted around sixteen hours and was a battle the whole way, through thick fog, ice, freezing cold, and engine trouble, with Brown at times climbing out onto the wings to clear ice from the engines. When they spotted the Irish coast, they thought the flat, green bog looked like a perfect field to land on, but the wheels sank into the soft ground and the plane tipped forward. Luckily, neither man was seriously hurt. The site they landed near was already famous, as Guglielmo Marconi had built one of the first transatlantic wireless stations there, which sent messages across the ocean from 1907. 📡

Today a white monument shaped like an aircraft tail fin stands on a hill overlooking Derrygimlagh bog, and a looped walking trail leads through the landing site and the remains of the Marconi station. 🍀 It is a remarkable reminder that a quiet corner of Connemara was once at the centre of two great leaps in world communication and travel. Have you ever walked the bog road at Derrygimlagh and stood where Alcock and Brown came down?

The images may be AI generated for the illustration of the story.

01/10/2026

Fógra.

Beidh ócáid chuimhneacháin in ómós don Athair Thomas Flannery - a fear a chinntigh go dtógfaí droichead Flannery fadó - ar bun in Ionad na nImirceach i gCarna an deireadh seaachtain s\eo amach romhainn.
Sé an tAthair Flanneary, a bhí ina shagart pobail i gCarna sna 1880óidí, a thug spreagadh freisin do thógáil dhroichead Mhuigh Inse agus don forbairt a rinneadh ar choill an Chnoic Bhuí.
Sé Éamon Ó Cuív, an t-iar Aire Gaeltachta agus Forbartha Tuaithe, a chuirfidh tús leis an ócáid in Ionad na nImirceach i gCarna ag an 11 ar maidin Dé Sathairn. Déanfaidh an stairí agus an scríbhneoir, Kathleen Villiiers-Tuthill píosa caint ina dhiAidh sin ar shaol agus ar shaothar an Athar Flannery. Tá staidéar déanta aicese ar an ábhar sin.
Casfaidh Caitríona Ní Cheannabháin amhráin an cheantair agus déanfar plé ar na bealaí ar bhféadfaí borradh a chur faoin cheantair imeallach théis am lóin. Beidh Éamon Ó Cuív i láthar ag an bplé sin.
Tá cead isteach in aisce chuig an ócáid.
Leagfar bláthfhlasc ar uaigh an Athar Thomas Flannery taobh amuigh de Shéipéal Charna théis Aifreann 11.30 ar maidin Dé Domhnaigh agus beidh braon tae agus sóláistí ar fáin in Ionad na nImirceach ina dhiaidh sin.
Tuilleadh eolais le fáil ach glaoch ar 087-2515352.

29/09/2026

Meán Fómhair-29-2026.

Fógra.

Beidh ócáid chuimhneacháin in ómós don Athair Thomas Flannery - a fear a chinntigh go dtógfaí droichead Flannery fadó - ar bun in Ionad na nImirceach i gCarna an deireadh seaachtain s\eo amach romhainn.
Sé an tAthair Flanneary, a bhí ina shagart pobail i gCarna sna 1880óidí, a thug spreagadh freisin do thógáil dhroichead Mhuigh Inse agus don forbairt a rinneadh ar choill an Chnoic Bhuí.
Sé Éamon Ó Cuív, an t-iar Aire Gaeltachta agus Forbartha Tuaithe, a chuirfidh tús leis an ócáid in Ionad na nImirceach i gCarna ag an 11 ar maidin Dé Sathairn. Déanfaidh an stairí agus an scríbhneoir, Kathleen Villiiers-Tuthill píosa caint ina dhiAidh sin ar shaol agus ar shaothar an Athar Flannery. Tá staidéar déanta aicese ar an ábhar sin.
Casfaidh Caitríona Ní Cheannabháin amhráin an cheantair agus déanfar plé ar na bealaí ar bhféadfaí borradh a chur faoin cheantair imeallach théis am lóin. Beidh Éamon Ó Cuív i láthar ag an bplé sin.
Tá cead isteach in aisce chuig an ócáid.
Leagfar bláthfhlasc ar uaigh an Athar Thomas Flannery taobh amuigh de Shéipéal Charna théis Aifreann 11.30 ar maidin Dé Domhnaigh agus beidh braon tae agus sóláistí ar fáin in Ionad na nImirceach ina dhiaidh sin.
Tuilleadh eolais le fáil ach glaoch ar 087-2515352.
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22/07/2026

New Visitor Attraction In Carna

09/06/2026

Fáilte go Ionad na nImirceach i gCarna
Scéalta Samhraidh
🌞☕
Amárach Dé Ceadaoin, 10ú Meitheamh 2026
ón 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
le haghaidh Comhrá, Caint, Comhluadar agus Scéalta.
Braon tae agus caife agus scónaí.
Lá Comhluadair agus Comharsanachta.

Welcome to the Ionad na nImirceach Carna
“Summer Stories and Conversation
🌞☕
Tomorrow Wednesday, 10th June 2026
from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
for conversation, chat, good company and stories.
Tea and coffee and scones.
A day of friendship and community.

29/04/2026

13/04/2026

Sharing from CLG Cárna/Caiseal

07/04/2026

Connemara National Park

This months Exhibition is now ready for viewing 9am to 5.15pm daily. Please pop in and take a look at this beautiful exhibition by Dympna Heanue.