Several events are being held across the Shannonside region this weekend to mark the end of National Heritage Week 2002.
The week is aimed at highlighting the abundance of great work that is carried out in all communities to preserve and promote our natural, built and cultural heritage.
Events taking place locally this weekend include an event in Granard to mark the centenary of the death of Michael Collins, and in Kiltyclogher tomorrow morning where people are invited to drop into the local library and ask questions of archaeologist Aidan Harte.
In Roscommon the subject of place and field names will be the topic of a special gathering at Castlecoote Lodge on Sunday afternoon.
Organiser Mary Leyden says we have to act now to make sure a lot of our local history isn't forgotten…
In rural Ireland there are lots of changes taking place right now.
Farms are getting bigger, lots of farmers are retiring, some without a successor.
Even when you think of your address, you're asked from your Eircode, your not thinking of you townland or area.
There's a lot of local knowledge and history being lost.
