Planting Seeds, In Body,
Mind and Soul

We are an ecology-inspired
project, dedicated to eco-
education and protecting the
’eco’, our home in common.

Ecology Centre

Strengthening
connections with nature

The Ecology Centre is based in a former convent building, first occupied by Dominican Sisters in the 19th century. Surrounded by seventy acres of wood pasture, this education space, with meeting rooms, chapel, bookstore, dining hall and 18 private and shared rooms, has an annual eco-conscious programme of events.

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Organic Farm

Organic,
as nature intended

An Tairseach’s Organic Farm is the result of years of dedicated effort to enrich the soil for thriving crops. Combining innovation with traditional wisdom, we have evolved our small-holding to ensure the vitality of the entire ecosystem. We are hugely proud of being awarded organic certification from the Irish Organic Association in 2006!

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We should be listening to the stars in the heavens and the sun and the moon, to the mountains and the plains, to the forest and rivers and seas that surround us to the meadows and the flowering grasses, to the songbirds and the insects and to their music especially in the evening and the early hours of the night.

Thomas Berry

Origin Story

True purpose,  
community and activism

An Tairseach was originally founded by a group of Dominican Sisters who were determined to bring their religious experience to bear on caring for nature. In the 1990s, these trail-blazing women transformed their convent home into an ecological education centre and organic farm, based on living ecological systems and cycles.

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Our Mission

A deeper connection
to our planetary home

An Tairseach has been cultivated into a space dedicated to the study of our delicate and inescapable partnership with air, land, water, and fellow living beings. The founding Sisters’ mission, and the heartbeat of our charity today, is to recognise the interconnectedness of all life, the divinity of the Earth and our home-in-common.

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