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Cork Traveller
Women's Network

A community development project working for Traveller rights, leadership, culture and heritage.
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Led by Traveller Women

CTWN connects a network of Traveller women’s groups in Cork and is a space for Traveller women to support each other, have a voice and work for change around issues affecting our lives. CTWN is very proud to be an organisation fully led by Traveller women.

  • Supporting Traveller women as leaders to make changes in issues that affect our lives
  • Promoting Traveller women’s health and well being
  • Supporting a network of Traveller women’s groups in Cork city
  • Advocating for Traveller accommodation rights
  • Promoting awareness of Traveller culture, heritage and ethnicity
  • Promoting equality & challenging discrimination

The Spring Lane Traveller Heritage Project

Our newest Traveller heritage project.

Travellers have been living around the Blackpool & Spring Lane area for many generations. Travellers traditionally camped in the lane ways and back roads (including Spring Lane), which gave a sheltered place to camp up and graze the horses on the “long acre”.

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The Spring Lane Traveller Heritage Project

Our newest Traveller heritage project.

Travellers have been living around the Blackpool & Spring Lane area for many generations. Travellers traditionally camped in the lane ways and back roads (including Spring Lane), which gave a sheltered place to camp up and graze the horses on the “long acre”.

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A collaborative network

CTWN has a base at the Triskel Arts Centre in the heart of Cork city, as well as linking with Travellers and Traveller women’s groups across the city and supporting the Meelagh Traveller community development project in Mahon.

CTWN hosts Toraig on the Tobar the Traveller culture exhibit in Cork Public Museum

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Who are Irish Travellers?
A look at the history and culture of Irish Travellers
Resources
Leaflets, posters and video resources
Our work
An overview of the different programmes we're involved in
Exhibition
Toraig on the Tobar the Traveller culture exhibit