Heritage Week is 'dead interesting'

Clara Heritage Committee hosted a well-attended 'Dead Interesting' this week.

The tour took in local churches, cemeteries and Cillíns in Clara, Tubber, Ballycumber and The Island recently as part of Heritage Week.

The event comprised of a whistle-stop tour of 11 locations and commenced in Clara's St Brigid's Church Of Ireland's cemetery where committee member Gloria Telford got the tour underway telling those in attendance about the history of the church, the parish and of those contained within the graveyard; most notably Vivian Mercier, a renowned literary critic of Samuel Beckett's and native of Clara and his wife Éilis Dillon, poet and author.

More in tomorrow's edition of Offaly Independent.