At a transitional time, during which the future of stretches of remaining bogland lying south of Lough Neagh is being negotiated, we were invited by the Lough Neagh Landscape Partnership team to help them discover what local people knew, thought and felt about the bog, in order to inform and shape a way forward.

We embarked on a series of in-depth conversations, facilitated walks and mapping sessions to draw out traditions and stories about the bog, routes through the bog, industrial uses of the bog, and ideas about what the bog could become. In this process, we learned about the complex politics of the relationships between people and place, and people, place and institutions in this area of County Tyrone. At the end of this phase, we submitted a report that communicated all our findings and included recommendations for a second phase of engagement.