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Monitoring breeding birds at Cabragh Wetlands

There is a small band of dedicated bird ringers who monitor the breeding birds at Cabragh Wetlands. For the past sixteen years they have been running a Constant Effort ringing project. The project involves putting the same amount of netting, in the ...

08 Aug 2021 at 12:00

Thurles

Cabragh Wetlands - “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring”

The days are on the mend “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring when weeds in wheels grow long and lovely and lush.” Gerald Manley Hopkins’ poem, a literary ode to spring in which he tries to create the original Garden of Eden is a poem that sticks in ...

14 Feb 2018 at 11:16

Thurles

Seek out adventure at Cabragh Wetlands

“Enwrought with golden and silver light….. the blue and the dim and the dark… I have spread my dreams under your feet…. Tread softly or you tread on my dreams.” This week, we introduce you to some of the colourful locals that inhabit the many ...

08 Aug 2020 at 10:00

Thurles

Lá Fhéile Eoin-St John’s Eve at Cabragh Wetlands

St. John’s Eve is June 23, the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist. At the heart of the celebration was the bonfire and these communal fires were often very large. For days before, children and young people collected fuel of all kinds ...

20 Jun 2021 at 14:00

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Riot at Cabragh, Thurles - detective required

I was assailed on a lovely May morning, the sun already high in the sky over Killough Hill and a soft breeze blowing across the wetlands. The sheen of the water on the pond peppered here and there with white blobs of emerging native water ...

21 May 2022 at 18:00

Thurles

Autumn beauty right now at Cabragh Wetlands

“The trees are in their autumn beauty” although here at Cabragh, the paths are becoming soft as the water table rises. Cabragh is not a place of towering oaks, soaring scots pine and all the other wonders of a mature woodland but yet the ...

11 Oct 2020 at 20:00

Thurles

Oh to be in Cabragh as evenings lenghten

I wonder how things are in Cabragh? This time of the year with the first heat of the sun it is usually our natural destination and even though the wetlands have yet to burst into life, the sheltered spots beneath the hedgerow, the nooks ...

23 Apr 2020 at 11:48

Thurles

Pollination -the basic, natural and vital activity

T he appearance of a bumble bee, my first sighting of the year, on one of the lovely warm days last week brought to mind the central aspect of nature for quite a number of months to come - pollination. Pollination is the core activity ...

02 Apr 2020 at 15:43

Thurles

The common frog at Cabragh Wetlands

We had a very successful open day at Cabragh Wetlands recently. There were experts at hand to explain the importance of the habitats on the site. The youngest members of the audience were not paying any attention to the experts. They ...

29 Aug 2021 at 14:00

Thurles

Cabragh Wetlands: Half full - half empty??

It’s been a confusing week - nature attempting to emerge into a glorious sun filled spring, people also trying to emerge from a life under lockdown. In the former, sharp night frosts are holding everything back - even in France they ...

25 Apr 2021 at 16:00

Thurles

Walking into a painting at Cabragh Wetlands

For many years, this time of year in Cabragh echoed to the laughter and shrieks of children as it hosted many school visits and the annual summer camp for primary school pupils. Unfortunately, this year and last it has not been ...

27 Jun 2021 at 14:00

Thurles

Cabragh Wetlands: Waiting for a hug

“The times they are a changing.” From “the bitter black wind that blows in from the right hand” with flurries of snow to soft incessant rain that covered Cabragh in a metre of water, from a monochrome buff brown landscape ...

28 Feb 2021 at 16:00

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