Connecting Through Heritage with Leitrim County Council
The Connecting Through Heritage Podcast Series highlights much of Leitrim’s built, natural and cultural heritage from the people who know most about it.
In our latest Memory Meitheals episodes, Fionnuala Maxwell will be speaking to Leitrim residents about the heritage of their local area and their memory’s of growing up and living in Leitrim
The Connecting Through Heritage Podcast Series is an initiative of the Leitrim County Council Heritage Office and is part-funded by the Heritage Council.
Connecting Through Heritage with Leitrim County Council
Acheson's Mill Part Two
School Days & Growing Up in Drumcree
In the second part of this Memory Meitheals feature, the conversation moves from mill life to school days and the everyday adventures of growing up in the Drumcree and Glebe area. Florrie Moynihan (née Rowley), Mel Rowley and Gerry Reilly recall the teachers, classrooms, neighbours and small excitements that shaped childhood in rural Leitrim.
Stories of friendship, local characters and family life sit alongside Florrie’s reflections on leaving home for Dublin, offering a gentle contrast between past and present — between the grounded, close-knit world of Drumcree and the bustling city she has lived in since the 1960s.
Together, these memories paint a vivid, affectionate portrait of community life, preserving voices and stories that might otherwise be lost.