Horses to
Horsepower
04.04.25
A look back at
transport in Inishowen over the past 150 years
CLONMANY Genealogy & Heritage Group will present an
exhibition entitled 'Horses to Horsepower - Transport
through the ages in Inishowen' in the Market House, Clonmany on Saturday 26th April and Sunday 27th April
2025. |
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A lorry in the 1920s |
The two-day heritage event
will look at changing modes of transport in Inishowen
over the last 150 years. Hard working committee members
are busy gathering material for the exhibition,
including photos, books, artefacts and records on
everything from pony & traps to cars, tractors,
bicycles, motorcycles & scooters, rail transport, buses
and even prams!
The Genealogy & Heritage Group would love to include
material from local families and from further afield. If
you have any photographs, etc, you would like to include
in the exhibition, please contact the Group on 086
6092369 or by email at
clonmanygenealogygroup@gmail.com . The Group would
like to reassure people that any photos or documents
provided will be scanned and the originals returned
without delay. |
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New bicycles, Clonmany in
1940s |
The Group are looking for
the public’s help with the project.
PRO, Hugh Farren, said: “We’re sure there is a
rich history of local transport locked away in boxes and
albums in homes around Inishowen. We are asking people
to please share that history with us. Perhaps it’s a
family member posing beside a car, tractor, bicycle or
motorcycle. Or maybe it’s someone who has emigrated and
sent home photos to their family in Inishowen. Did you
have someone who worked on the trains or buses? Whatever
it is, we’d love to see it.”
This is the first exhibition of the year for the
Clonmany Group, and they are expecting another large
attendance at the Market House following on from a
number of successful exhibitions there last year. Plans
are already well advanced for another exhibition to take
place in August, during National Heritage Week.
For further information please contact
clonmanygenealogygroup@gmail.com . |
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