Mid-Ulster Your Place and Mine (Bursary Project)

Local Study

By Keith Wysner, Principal of Knockloughrim Primary School, published 1st November 2013

Keith Wysner, Principal of Knockloughrim Primary School, Magherafelt, Northern Ireland was awarded a £900 grant from the Historical Association's Joan Lewin fund for his Bursary Project entitled Mid Ulster Your Place & Mine. The project focused on 10 & 11 year olds in the rural Protestant communities of Knockloughrim & Maghera working with children from a Roman Catholic Primary School in a third neighbouring village of Mayogall.  They collaborated on a Local Area Study of their own local areas and identified each of the most historically important sites and locations within each of their own communities and then began to inform their partners in the neighbouring areas about them. Information is being built up on a special website.  The children visited the local sites of interest identified and shared in a story telling and music session by local historian and folk musician Mr Willie Drennan.