Aims and likely Cross Border benefits of the project:

  • to promote music, storytelling and the Irish language and develop it, along with the natural resource of the regions as a marketable tourism product.
  • To establish a new market for tour groups to visit An Creagán and Ionad Cois Locha
  • to establish links between An Creagan and Ionad Cois loch.

Project Objectives:

  • To run 2 cross border community exchanges
  • To involve 8 people from Dunlewey and 8 people from Creggan in exchange visits
  • To include a minimum of 4 people from each area under 25 years old
  • To hold 1 concert and 1 Traditional Music/Storytelling Sessions in An Creagán and Ionad Cois Locha
  • To attract a minimum audience of 60 people to each of the 2 concerts
  • To run tours of 6 historical and environmental sites, 3 from each area
  • To hold 2 workshops on cross border development and marketing of culture/heritage tours in Creggan and Dunlewey
  • To involve a minimum of 4 tourist providers from each area to attend the 2 workshops
  • To produce and implement a marketing action plan for the development and marketing of culture/heritage tours to Creggan and Dunlewey
  • To establish a group of 3 people from Creggan and 3 people from Dunlewey to further develop the project as a tourism product