A new Education Policy is currently being devised for Músaem
Chorca Dhuibhne, in conjunction with Oidhreacht
Chorca Dhuibhne. This will be broad ranging, aimed at visitors to
the museum (particularly children, especially those coming to the area
to improve their fluency in the Irish Language), adult participants
in Irish Language Courses run by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne and our
most important stakeholders, the local people, as well as all other
users of the facilities available in and around the museum.
Worksheets
A series of worksheets for younger visitors has been available in the
museum for several years now. These worksheets are also useful for teachers
and for student teachers. All have been provided with financial assistance
from the Heritage
Council, and have been designed by Paul Francis, the artist who
also designed the panels in the Museum's permanent exhibition.
Those
available to date are about the Museum itself, about
the nearby monastic site at Riasc (artefacts from which
are on display in the musuem) and our most recent worksheet is on the
topic of Pilgrimage/St Brendan/Cosán na Naomh.
These worksheets are available in Irish or in English. Worksheets on
other archaeological topics will also by developed by Oidhreacht Chorca
Dhuibhne staff from time to time, particularly for use with teacher
groups and local school children. It is proposed to prepare a worksheet
on the theme of Spanish Connections with Corca Dhuibne
(incorporating discussion of the archaeological site at Dún an
Óir) in the near future.
Seminars
Occasionally seminars have been held on aspects of the heritage of the
area. In 2004 a very successful seminar was held on the theme of Promontory
forts. ‘Cúirt Phiarais’ was held in December 2005.
The theme was aspects of the heritage of the Parish of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh,
and again a field trip to various sites was followed by talks in the
afternoon. Both these seminars were grant aided by the Heritage Council.
Another seminar, 'Pilgrimage sites in Corca Dhuibhne and Beyond' - took
place in the Museum on November 2006, in conjunction with Oidhreacht
Chorca Dhuibhne, and with the support of the Heritage
Council. A field trip to sites of pilgrimage interest in the area
took place in the morning, with talks from 2.15 in the afternoon. Further
seminars will be organised from time to time.
Guided Tours and Illustrated Talks
The curator is available to groups to provide
guided tours of the museum, and also to sites of archaeological interest
in the area. She is also available to give illustrated talks on various
aspects of Irish Archaeology, but more particularly the Archaeology
of the Dingle Peninsula.
Publications
Ogham Stones of the Dingle Peninsula/Clocha Oghaim Chorca Dhuibhne
was researched and written by staff of Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne
and Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, and it is hoped that further publications
of this nature, on topics of local archaeological interest, will be
published from time to time.
Walking
Route Guides
Three Walking Route Guides
were published in May 2009, thanks to generous grant aid provided by
the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism. Each route begins and ends
at the museum, and will guide you through different parts of the area
around Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, indicating sites of archaeological
and other interest. As part of Heritage
Week 2009, museum staff led a group on one of the walks,
and it is planned that this will be a feature of our Heritage Week events
in future years.
Cosán
na Naomh - The Saints' Path
The pilgrimage route, Cosán na Naomh (the Saints’
Path), which meanders through Corca Dhuibhne, with the summit of Mount
Brandon originally as its goal, may well have pre-Christian origins.
Mount Brandon (known as Sliabh nDaidche in earlier times) would always
have been important to the people of the area, dominating the landscape
as it does.
