Past Events

This event was led by Sean Meehan (Irish Wildlife Trust) on a warm dry evening. With introductions made, we began with a look at biodiversity along the Ulster Canal Greenway from Old Cross Square heading northwards.

Recording pollinators is an important aspect of promoting pollinators and one of our important targets is to get more people recording local wildlife and particularly bees. 

A second Heritage Week 2023 workshop on identifying and recording dragonflies and damselflies was hosted by Monaghan Wetlands Forum and Monaghan Tidy Towns with support from the Local Authority Wetlands Programme.

Over 20 volunteers braved the elements to learn from more about birds from our local expert Joe Shannon from Bird Watch Ireland.

Margaret Palmer, Wild About Herbs opened our eyes to the wonders and health benefits of plants and trees here growing around Peter’s Lake.

Hug a Tree Day is an annual event for Monaghan Tidy Towns.

Over Three moth traps set out around Monaghan on the Friday night were opened in Rossmore Park on Saturday 15 July.

Monaghan Tidy Towns is fortunate in having the experience of Bernie O Hanrahan on hand to demonstrate the investigation of water quality in local streams.

As part of the Giants Festival in Rossmore Park, ecologist Billy Flynn led a walk for children and parents/guardians to discover some of the living giants in the park.

You can never have too many trees! Monaghan Town has lots of them but we continue to plant many more.