Cork Traveller
Women's Network

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

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 Black Ash Traveller Oral History

Our newest Traveller heritage project.

Did you know that the area of land, stretching from the Kinsale Road Roundabout, to the Black Ash Park and Ride and the Tramore Valley Park, along with lane ways going up to the Airport Road were once an important traditional stopping place for Irish Travellers?

The Black Ash Traveller Oral History

Our newest Traveller heritage project.

Did you know that the area of land, stretching from the Kinsale Road Roundabout, to the Black Ash Park and Ride and the Tramore Valley Park, along with lane ways going up to the Airport Road were once an important traditional stopping place for Irish Travellers?

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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