(Mon 19th May 2025) Wonderful school workshop for Ballycar…

The following text and photos are copied from their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/michael.o.flanagan.5

“Míle buíochas to Micheál Mac Gearailt, Tony Peter Walsh and Shannon Town Community Wetlands, a group who have restored a wetland habitat in the centre of Shannon town. The Senior pupils of Scoil Naísiúnta Baile Uí Chárthaigh engaged in a Wetland Ecology Workshop this morning as part of National Biodiversity Week which included a Plant and Flower Identification Game, a Bird Identification Game, Pond Dipping for Macroinvertebrates such as Dragonfly Larvae and a Leave no Trace Workshop. All activities were fun, interactive and educational with some small ecology related prizes provided by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Thank you to Mr. Dillon for organising the trip and Amy for accompanying the group. Huge gratitude to parents and guardians for providing lifts to and from Shannon “

(Mon 19th May 2025) A walk around the wetlands…

We have had 5 or more weeks or no rain and hot sunshine so the ponds are pretty low.

But great to see newts, mayfly and dragonfly nymphs thriving!

(Fri 16th May 2025) Preparing site for Biodiversity Week…

A few committee members gardened around the logs and paths in preparation for the biodiversity talks being held next week.

(Thurs 5th Dec 2024) Walk around the wetlands

It was vert windy and rainy but the wetlands were looking better than when I last had a walk around a few months ago. That is, the two ponds had water and a lot of the grasslands had settled down. I also saw not sizeable amount of willows.

(Tues 28th May 2024) Photo Competition Winners

SENIOR 1 st Place – Jimmy Doyle – Native Flower taken in Shannon Wetlands. Prize sponsored by Shannon Airport Group. Presented by Arek Gdulinski of Shannon Airport Group.

SENIOR 1 st Runner Up – Roisín Russell – Canoes on Doon Lough- East Clare. Prize sponsored by Shannon Town Community Wetlands. Presented by Cllr. Donna McGettigan.

SENIOR 2 nd Runner Up – Shane Oakley – A tree by McNamara’s Lake. Prize sponsored by Shannon Town Community Wetlands. Presented by Cllr. Donna McGettigan.

JUNIOR 1 st Place – Jack Myers – A rainbow over Shannon Estuary. Prize sponsored by Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO). Presented by Cllr. Donna McGettigan.

JUNIOR 1 st Runner Up – Abbie O’Flaherty O’Brien – Red sky over Cratloe Woods. Prize sponsored by Shannon Town Community Wetlands. Presented by Cllr. Donna McGettigan.

JUNIOR 2 nd Runner Up – Alex Lunev – Sky and Water. Prize sponsored by Shannon Town Community Wetlands. Presented by Cllr. Donna McGettigan.

(Tues 28th May 2024) Wonderful Signage Event

While it was gusty and prone to light rain we had a great turn out and fun time officially opening the new Wetlands sign. The marquis added a touch of style (and much needed shelter at times) and the biscuits/pecan cake and tea/coffee lovely.

(Tues 28th May 2024) New Information Board to be…

Today at 2 pm we will officially open the new information board 🙂

(Weds 22nd May 2024) St. Patrick’s Comprehensive School 2nd…

“Thank you to Shannon Wetlands and Michaél for hosting a very interesting and exciting workshop with our 2nd year Science class for National

Biodiversity Week. They found frogs (or rather it found them) tadpoles, dragonfly larvae, cuckoo spit and many other invertebrates living in the ponds” – from their Facebook page 🙂

(Tues 21st May 2024) SES helped with a Clean-Up

Wonderful turn out by SES (https://ses.aero/) to help in cleaning up the wetlands. Thank-you again! 🙂

(Tues 4th Feb 2024) Celebrating World Wetlands Day at…

Had three wonderful speakers last night at a great venue, the Bunratty Room at The Treacys Oakwoods Hotel.

Olive first introduced those present to a brief history of the Shannon Town Community Wetlands and the work done by it’s volunteers to restore and maintain the wetlands here in the heart of Shannon Town.

She then explained we would next have three speakers: John O’Brien (STCW), Ruairí Ó Conchúir (LAWPRO) and Dr Pamela Bartley (from Hydro-G, Galway)

The talks were very engaging with the experts sharing the knowledge of past, present and future of our wetlands, bogs and water courses.

A great evening was had by all.

Finally, Tony Walsh (STCW) reminded people that we are always after content (stories, pictures, videos, etc.) concerning the Shannon Town Community Wetlands and reminded those present to engage with us on this website ShannonTownWetlands.ie and on our open Facebook Group

Here’s a few photos of the night. Enjoy 🙂