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Our Summer Outing takes place on Saturday 15 June, to Portumna Workhouse and Portumna Castle. Itinerary: 10am bus pick up from Corrandulla 11.30 - arrival at Portumna Workhouse for a guided tour, tea and biscuits after. 1.00 - arrival at

This year's Corrandulla Show takes place on Sunday 23rd June. Our newly refurbished Heritage Room will be open to the public throughout the day - call in for a look, or for a chat about local history or genealogy. We

Join us for this year's Heritage Week event: A History of Annaghdown in Objects Bring along an artefact, item or document related to the history of a family, house, building, business, village or townland, and tell its story to the

Our AGM takes place on Wednesday 25 September at 8pm in the Old Girls'School, Corrandulla. All members are asked to attend, and new members are most welcome. The officers for the coming year will be elected at this meeting.

Annaghdown Heritage Society will present a workshop entitled “Reading Old Maps” in the Heritage Room, Old Girls’ School, Corrandulla on Wednesday, October 23 at 8 pm. (Eircode is H91 WEP0). The workshop co-presented by Paul Gosling, GMIT and Eoin O’Neill,

Our first monthly Genealogy Meetup will take place on Tuesday 12 November at 8pm in the Heritage Room. All with an interest in family history are invited to come along.

Dr Christy Cunniffe will deliver a lecture entitled “A discussion of the Religious and Secular Iconography found on 18th- and 19th-century Funerary Monuments" in the AHS Heritage Room at the Old Girls' School, Corrandulla on Tuesday 26 November at 8pm.

Our December Genealogy Meetup will take place on Tuesday 10 December at 8pm in the Heritage Room. All are welcome!

Our next genealogy evening takes place on Wednesday 22 January at 8pm in the Heritage Room. As well as the usual tea and chat, we'll have brief talks by Irene McGoldrick on the Kavanagh family of Coteenty and Paul Greaney

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Paul McNulty for a lecture on the Anglo-Norman Lynches of Galway, on Friday 7 February at 8pm in the Heritage Room. Paul McNulty is convinced that genealogy provides a gateway not only to local

We will have a townlands workshop on Wednesday 19 February at 8pm in the Heritage Room, Old Girls’ School, Corrandulla, aimed at furthering our project on researching townlands in the parish. Pages have been drafted for several townlands – see

Our next genealogy evening takes place on Wednesday 26 February at 8pm. The evening will include the following brief family history talks: - Paddy Scully on Scullys of Woodpark - Ronan Coy on Moylans of Farmerstown