Ceolaras Coleman, Gurteen

Ceolaras Coleman is the traditional-music centre at Gurteen, Co. Sligo. According to a Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann report, the founding meeting of the River Plate branch, the first Comhaltas branch registered in South America, was held there. The meeting elected a committee from 26 musicians and four dancers from Buenos Aires, and a session followed at the Róisín Dubh with local players, including John and Maria McHugh of Foxford. The report is undated, but the event took place in 2007, during the Argentine group's tour for the 150th anniversary of Admiral Brown's death. A search-result summary of another Comhaltas page, not opened, says the branch was later renamed the Buenos Aires Branch and names the guitarist and charango player Tommy Nelson as its first chairman.

The same report says Fernando Marcos was then one of only two qualified Irish dance teachers in South America, and quotes Augustin Brown, a seventh-generation descendant of the admiral, on how many places in Argentina are named after him.

Irish traditional music in Argentina has older roots. A Buenos Aires provincial bill credits the Passionist priest Fidelis Rush, born in Rojas in 1914 to a family from Westmeath and Longford, as a precursor of the "irish-celta" music movement, and the Fahy Club in Buenos Aires is a known venue for Irish traditional music. The Comhaltas branch's current activity is unverified as of October 2026, and the research does not record Ceolaras Coleman's opening arrangements.