Article
The Old Irish Goat Centre is open!
The Craft Shop and visitors centre is open from 11 am to 5 pm daily. Fourteen local contributors and artists have their fine craftwork and
07/09/2020
Archive
An extensive archive of material will be available soon. Ray Werner has spent 60 years researching rare goats of Britain and Ireland as well as other northern hemisphere landrace goats and has made his work available for this archive.
In addition, this archive holds audio of lectures from the Rare Breeds conferences, film clips and a vast gallery of photos of Old Irish and landrace goats of Britain, Ireland and
elsewhere.
Published Media
Articles
Article
The National Herd Sanctuary
Minister Michael Ring turned the sod in celebration of the new 5-acre sanctuary in Mulranny. It stretches from the N59 to near the Great Western
27/06/2020
Article
A Decade for a Dream
It was almost 10 years ago that Old Irish goats were discovered among the feral herds of Mulranny mountains; a hardy animal that had survived
27/06/2020
Save the Goat Group is not Kidding
Published in the London Times, February 9th, 2019 A conservation group is putting its faith in kids with plans for a €200,000 centre to save
09/04/2019
Article
Mulranny – last stronghold of the Old Irish Goat?
Source: The Mayo News | 15/02/2011 AS OLD AS THE HILLS Weather hardy The Old Irish Goat is essentially a cold-weather goat that developed rapidly
24/03/2019
Videos
Video
An Irish TV Broadcast
A sanctuary and visitor center in Mulranny County Mayo, has been built to protect the endangered old Irish goat.
15/08/2020
Video
The Old Irish Goat Project
The old Irish Goat Society Reporter Tracey May Halloran of The Western People interviews Sean Carolan, Chairman of Mulranny Tidy Towns and member of the
29/03/2019
Video
Tourist Potential of the Old Irish Goat in Mulranny
Carol Loftus, Mulranny Tourism is interviewed on The Great Western Greenway during Heritage Week by Tracey Halloran, reporter with The Western People. Carol speaks about the tourism potential of the Old Irish Goat for Mulranny and Co. Mayo and the importance of saving Ireland’s native goat.
21/03/2019
Video
RTE One Nationwide
RTE ONE broadcast on 20/02/2011 The Old Irish goat story starts at 8:49 minutes into the program and ends at at 17:40 minutes.
16/03/2019
Documents
Flyer
What is The Old Irish Goat?
What is an Old Irish Goat? The Old Irish Goat is Ireland’s indigenous, landrace breed of goat. The term “landrace” refers here to the fact
16/03/2019