Rose Shaw came to the Clogher Valley, County Tyrone in 1905 as a governess to the Gledstanes who lived at Fardross, near Clogher. She was in her late teens, early twenties and in her spare time was an amateur photographer capturing local people in every day activities.
Rose developed her photos at Fardross in a windowless room off the dining room where the Gledstanes kept their silver. Her photographs include a girl with a creel for collecting turf, people gathering sheaves of oats, smoking pipes, playing fiddles and melodeons, children walking to school barefoot, women clad in the traditional dress working in the fields.
Rose published Carleton’s Country 1930, which had an introduction by Sir Shane Leslie and included many of her own photographs. Only about thirty of her photographs have survived and these are in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down.
Clogher Community Village Forum have been granted permission by National Museums NI to print the Rose Shaw collection of photographs.
Exhibition details
An exhibition of Rose Shaw Photographs will take place
Thursday 27 February 2025 at 7pm
Corick House, 20 Corick Rd, Clogher BT76 0BZ
Come along and help to identify the people in the photographs to share their local story.
Clogher Community Village Forum
cloghercvf@hotmail.com
Annual Celebration of St. Tigernach
The Annual Celebration of St. Tigernach, Patron Saint of Clones and Bishop of Clogher will take place in St. Tigernach’s Church of Ireland, the Diamond, Clones on Friday 4th April at 7pm.
Our guest speaker for the evening will be Fr. Brian D’Arcy, Rector of St. Gabrie’ls Retreat in the Grann, Enniskillen. The event will be enriched with musical performances by the Different Keys Choir and the Graham Memorial Pipe Band.
The celebration will include a Bagpipe and Monk led procession to St. Tigernach’s Sarcophagus in the Round Tower Graveyard, followed by refreshments at the Cassandra Hand Folk and Famine Centre.
Clones Community Forum are also excited to be involved in a Cross Border Project with Clogher Village Forum called “Clones to Clogher Community Connections” where throughout 2025 as a group, through a series of workshops, we will be examining the 1693 Map of the area on Sliabh Beagh showing an outline route between Clones and Clogher where Early Christian way-markers exist. We welcome any and all participation from the local community. The outcome is to gather evidence and produce a modern map of the 17 mile ancient Pilgrim Route that will become part of St. Tigernach’s Way.