Monivea Heritage Association

Monivea  Heritage Association was founded in October 2020.

Monivea Heritage Association is dedicated to documenting, protecting and promoting the heritage of Monivea and the surrounding area.

We want to collect, record and preserve stories, folklore, photographs and other items relating to the built, cultural and natural heritage of our community.

We very much welcome new members. We welcome any recollections, photos', documents etc relating to Monivea that you may wish to share in order to preserve our past. 

If you would like to contribute to this community archive, e-mail us at      monivea.heritage@yahoo.com  or find us on Facebook  - Monivea Heritage 

E Mail: monivea.heritage@yahoo.com

Our Stories project:

Monivea Heritage Association is delighted to participate with our local community in this

project to gather information about the place we live in and the people who have lived

here in the past.

We welcome any material which will give us insights into how generations before us lived

and by gathering it we honour and value the lives they lived and their contribution to our

lives today. By recording and collating material, it will become available to a wider

audience and we preserve the information for future generations. The locality of interest

is Monivea civil parish and we welcome material from people wherever they live.

Suggested topics which might help to get memories flowing and uncovering stories:

Anything relating to people’s work e.g. any stories or details about local professions such

as the postman, people entering nuns, priesthood, the dentist, local nurses, the doctor,

blacksmiths, dressmakers, tin smiths, tailors, shops and travelling shops, and any stories

about local people or relatives involved in politics, farming, growing beet and potatoes,

milking cows, driving cattle to the fair, selling eggs stories of working in local big house

or estate, or working in the wood.

Stories about means of travel such as bicycles and buses, railways, and cars. Stories of

emigration, visitors from abroad, parcels from abroad, school days and holidays.

Memories of events like stations, births, marriages, funerals, dances, songs, or nursery

rhymes people knew, stories of times of great excitement or sadness.

Have you memories or photographs relating to sports, cultural or business organisations,

women’s groups, or men’s groups?

We also welcome stories about communications, such as making a phone call, getting a

telegram, battery radios and modernisation of society and home life such as moving

from thatched house to newer house, getting electricity, renting a TV or getting a first

fridge. In fact, any story you have and would like to share with us.

Our E Mail Address is : monivea.heritage@yahoo.com

Facebook page: Monivea Heritage Association

Website: We expect to be allocated a section for Monivea on

https://galwaycommunityheritage