Bere Island Community Update

Monday 26th January Bere Island Projects Group RecruitmentBere Island Projects Group are recruiting for the position of Project Co-ordinator, details are available here. Bere Island Projects Group – ActivitiesBere Island Projects Group facilitate a number of events and island groups at the Community Centre each week. The after school group meet on Mondays from 3pm […]

Parking at Oileán na gCaorach is a problem. In order to ease the congestion Bere Island Projects Group are proposing the following: Designate the spaces on either side of the shelter as ‘’No overnight Parking’’ – the two spaces on the left-hand side (west) of the shelter and the four spaces on the right-hand side

The Bere Island Projects Group CLG will hold their Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 12th November at 7.00pm in the Community Centre.

Please note, for the remainder of this year tours of Lonehort Battery are by appointment only.

Thank you to all those who attended our Heritage Week events on Bere Island. We had a great turn out at the events, the Ciorcal Comhrá ar Oileán Bhéara, the screening of the Ed White Film Collection, Foraging from Land to Sea and the Children’s Tour of Lonehort Battery. Bere Island Projects Group have been active

In the 1960s, Ed White from Lynn,  Massachusetts, USA would visit Bere Island each summer with his island born wife Mary (nee Harrington, Greenane).  Ed always brought his cine camera and spent his visits recording the everyday moments, faces and rhythms of island life.  These cine rolls were left to Ed’s daughter Noreen Dennehy.  Realising

Bere Island Projects Group are delighted to host a full programme for National Heritage Week 2025 which includes Ciorcal Comhrá ar Oileán Bhéara on Wednesday August 20th, an opportunity to come along to an informal Irish conversation get together at the Bere Island Community Centre over tea and cake. This event is open to  all levels of

Join a guided kayak tour and explore Bere Island’s hidden coves and rugged shores. Kayaking is available Tuesday, Thursday, Friday Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon. Suitable for ages 8+. Trips require a minimum of 4 people and are weather dependent. For further details see the poster below.