Projects in the Ring of Gullion

Museum exhibitions

The project aims to regain the oral tradition around the local history that has been lost in many communities. The project aims to increase the participation of the local communities from South Armagh in local history.

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Provide workspace and outlet for local artists

This project aims to provide a provide workspace and outlet for local artists at Slieve Gullion Courtyard and on the Ring of Gullion website.

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School heritage guidebook and teacher training

This project aims to enable teachers in the schools in the LP area to exploit the landscape to its full potential. School children will have a greater understanding of the place where they live and children will grow up with this knowledge and pass it on to their children.

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Signage and interpretation

This project aims to create welcome focal points at the two busiest entrance points into the Ring of Gullion (Camlough and Cloghogue); improve directional signage around the Ring of Gullion; and install signage at two important heritage sites: the Dorsey Embankment and Camlough Quarry.

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Showcase Gullion’s heritage

This project aims to enable young local musicians to visit other music groups in Ireland and abroad in order to develop their repertoire of tunes from different areas and be exposed to a variety of musical styles so as to enhance the development of their own musical style.

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Newry Canal – Heritage on the Lock

This project aims to create a path from Newry Canal’s Victoria Lock to the Flagstaff and erect interpretation for the canal detailing its importance to the area at both sites. The project also aims to erected road signage to the site and produce a brochure for the trail.

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The Giant’s Lair – Children’s Story Trail

The most ambitious children’s arts project commissioned in Northern Ireland has almost completed at Slieve Gullion and is set to become a landmark cultural attraction for the island of Ireland.

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The Dangers of Wildfires

A series of videos were made by the Year 6 school children in St Malachy's Primary School, Camlough and St Mary's Primary School, Mullaghbawn through the Ring of Gullion AONB project. It aims to raise the awareness of the dangers of wildfires and reduce the amount of fires.

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Mourne Cooley Gullion Geotourism Project

Geotourism is a unique product. It celebrates and promotes aspects of the Mourne-Cooley-Gullion region that make it special – its geology and the related fields of archaeology, mythology and heritage. The landscape around us has shaped the way we live and work and in some ways, we have shaped it.

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Landscape Partnership Scheme

The Ring of Gullion Landscape Partnership is part of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s programme to conserve and enhance some of the regions’s most treasured landscapes. A £1.4 million programme is underway which aims to engage people with the Ring of Gullion Landscape Partnership area and surrounding landscape.

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