Come and help build a traditional Booley hut, as part of the Cooley Hooley Booley.

Booleying is the ancient practice of transhumance in Ireland. It comes from the Irish word 'Buaile' (the language was still spoken in Cooley until the 1950s and its mark is still to be found in hundreds of local placenames).

Every summer the cattle were driven (on foot!) from the lowlands up into the mountains, to feast on the summer flush of grass. Women and girls accompanied the cattle and lived in circular stone huts for the summer, milking cattle and making butter. Many women relished this escape from lowland 'domestic bliss', in a quiet world up the mountains.

No one booleys anymore but the landscape is still pocked with circular walls and rings of stone.

Come help us build a new booley, in ómos dár sinséir agus an saol atá caite.
You must contact the organisers and register for this event. You will then be told where to go. There is very limited car parking at this traditional house high up Glenmore in the Cooley mountains.

Phone: 083 392 4117 or Email: cooleyconnectwellbeing@gmail.com

Address
A Traditional Farmhouse in Glenmore, Co. Louth