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January 23, 2018
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Reimagining Irish Rivers: Working with Nature
Maigue Rivers Trust is delighted to collaborate with Limerick City and County Council, European Green Leaf, LAWPRO, Rivers Trust and Mary Immaculate College to host the Reimagining Irish Rivers: Working with Nature conference that is on Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd March, 9am - 12:30 on both days. Click here to download the Abstract Booklet to view the schedule of talks and profile description for the..
Protecting Our Riverside Trees In Order to Have Healthy Rivers
Protecting Our Riverside Trees In Order to Have Healthy Rivers The Maigue Rivers Trust is very grateful to Limerick Leader's support for posting our article on riverside trees - 11/02/2021 Here in the Maigue catchment we have almost 1300km of river channel. The Maigue, Loobagh, Morningstar, Camoge, Barnakyle, Clonshire, flow through Charleville, Kilfinane, Kilmallock, Bruff, Knocklong, Bruree, Croom, Patrickswell, Adare, to name but a few. In the past two months, the Maigue Rivers Trust has received three reports from local people highlighting tree removal along sections of the rivers. Riverside trees are essential to healthy rivers but often their value is not fully appreciated until it is too late. Deteriorating water quality, habitat loss from arterial drainage schemes and loss of the natural riverside vegetation have had a detrimental impact on native wildlife and fish. At the time of the widespread drainage schemes, the..
Citizen Science Blog – Why Volunteer to Help Our Rivers?
Citizen Science Blog - Why Volunteer to Help Our Rivers? Rivers need our help.Rivers help us every day.Nature-based volunteering is good for our health and well-being.Volunteering will keep our rivers healthy for us, for wildlife, for our communities and for our children in the future. So why volunteer to help our rivers? It’s simple, helping our rivers helps us too. Civilisations throughout history were built around rivers, so many towns, villages and cities of today are centred around them. For example, the towns of Kilmallock and Croom are found on the Maigue River. Rivers provide us with a bounty of food, energy, transport, drinking water and leisure activities. They collect rainwater and transport essential nutrients, and they even carry away pollutants that wash in from land. Rivers are life-giving arteries filled with the fresh water that supports our landscapes and wildlife, keeps our crops and livestock hydrated,..
Autumn Event Series – Working with an artist
Autumn Event Series - Working with an artist The Maigue Rivers Trust are delighted to announce that, with funding from Creative Ireland-Limerick, we are going to help partner a community in the Maigue Rivers catchment to have a workshop with ceramic artist, Mary Conroy. Does your community group want to spend a day designing and making a ceramic sign, tiles or a feature that you can then install in your community area? If yes, please contact the Maigue Rivers Trust Project Officer, Liz Gabbbett on info@maigueriverstrust.ie by Monday 14th Sept, 7pm and explain how this project would benefit your..
Flag iris (Feleastram Iris pseudacorus)
A plant of wet meadows and riversides that is unmistakable when in..
Valerian (Caorthann Chorraigh Valeriana officinalis)
A common plant of wet meadows, lakesides riversides and open woodland. In summer it bears clusters of pink flowers with a strong sweet..
Water Dropwort (Dathabha Bán Oenanthe crocata)
Very common by rivers and streams. Sometimes known as water hemlock because of its..
Ragged Robin (Silene flos-cuculi)
This flower is found in damp grasslands, its petals have been modified into damp strips so that they cope with harsh weather..
Cuckoo Flower or Lady’s Smock (Biolar Gréagáin Cardamine pratensis)
This plant has either purple, pink or white coloured flowers, and blooms in April. Its preferred habitat is damps fields. The Orange Tip butterfly often lays a single egg on each plant and the caterpillar feeds on the..
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