Shannon Town Wetlands – Celebrating nature in the heart of Shannon Town

Thurs 2nd Feb 2023 – World Wetlands Day

2nd February 20232nd February 2023
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The weather held for us and we had a wonderful hour or so in the wetlands this afternoon. Pupils from both St Patrick’s Comprehensive (https://www.stpatrickscomprehensive.ie/) and Gaelscoil Donncha Rua (https://gdr.ie/). For me the highlight was when Ruairí from LAWPRO (https://lawaters.ie/) explained the sweet smell of otter (madra uisce) excrement! By passing some around 🙂

(PS. If you have photos and are posting them online please let us know and we will link to them. Thanks).

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Great interview on ClareFM

1st February 20231st February 2023
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Great interview is took place with our own Olive Carey and LAWPRO’s Ruairí Ó Conchúir (https://lawaters.ie/) regarding World Wetlands Day on Today FM this morning

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Sat 28th Jan 2023 – Were are going to…

28th January 202328th January 2023
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What should be a very interesting interview is taking place with our own Olive Carey and LAWPRO’s Ruairí Ó Conchúir (https://lawaters.ie/) regarding World Wetlands Day. It I will on Clare FM Clare.fm on Wednesday morning at 9.45am as part of Morning Focus with Alan Morrissey. Enjoy t https://www.clare.fm/on-air/morning-focus/

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World Wetlands Day 2023

23rd January 202327th January 2023
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PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME OF 12:30PM (not 11:45am as before)
Exciting News! Great free event taking place in the Shannon Community Wetlands next Thursday lunchtime..

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Sun 4th Dec 2022 A chilly Wetlands

4th December 20224th December 2022
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Found the water in the ponds crystal clear and no sign of the chalky marl. It was dry and sunny today at 5 C but felt much much colder with an icy occasional breeze.

The rubbish is start to accumulate around various areas again but nowhere near as bad as the Town Park.

Sadly the pond in the Town Park is looking in a very run down way

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Thurs 17th Nov 2022

17th November 202217th November 2022
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Aisling Ní Airteadna principal of the Gaelscoil took this wonderful photo today of the wetlands when they were shrouded in fog.

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November 2022 walk through the wetlands

10th November 202210th November 2022
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Well I’d been in Mayo for the Summer so it was great to get back to walking through the wetlands. The ponds were fuller than when I last visited in Summer and much of the reeds have been cleared.

Enjoy the 360 4K videos.

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Heritage Week 2022

10th August 202210th August 2022
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We will be hosting another guided walk this year on 13 August, 11am – 1pm at the Wetlands.

For details please click on the link below:

https://www.heritageweek.ie/event-listings/discover-your-local-wetlands

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Wonderful Wildflower Photos

10th August 202210th August 2022
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Thomas Chambers sent these wonderful photos of wildflowers taken recently in the Shannon Wetlands.

Hopefully, they have all been correctly identified and have included the names “as Gaeilge” as well as the English name.

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Sun 10th July 2022 – Sunny walk

15th July 202215th July 2022
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Had a lovely walk in the hot sunshine through the wetlands today. Saw a few large blue dragonflies and a smaller brown one flying around the small pond and the bull rushes are magnificient in the large pond. The large grassland area which was being taken over by willows is now a lovely varied meadow. The ponds are incredibly low though.

My sister was with me and took thee lovely photos.