About
Rose Shaw came to the Clogher Valley, County Tyrone in 1905 as a governess to the Gledstanes who lived at Fardross, near Clogher. She was in her late teens, early twenties and in her spare time was an amateur photographer capturing local people in every day activities.
Rose developed her photos at Fardross in a windowless room off the dining room where the Gledstanes kept their silver.
Her photographs include a girl with a creel for collecting turf, people gathering sheaves of oats, smoking pipes, playing fiddles and melodeons, children walking to school barefoot, women clad in the traditional dress working in the fields.
Rose published Carleton’s Country 1930, which had an introduction by Sir Shane Leslie and included many of her own photographs. Only about thirty of her photographs have survived and these are in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down.
Clogher Community Village Forum have been granted permission by National Museums NI to print the Rose Shaw collection of photographs.
An exhibition of Rose Shaw Photographs will take place: Thursday 27 February 2025 at 7pm Corick House, 20 Corick Rd, Clogher BT76 0BZ
Come along and help to identify the people in the photographs to share their local story.
