Bronagh Gallagher

This Spring we are partnering with @FieldStudiesIRL to offer an outdoor learning training programme at Mourne Park for teachers and community leaders, fully funded by the @HeritageFundNI. youtu.be/X0bjpItrGv0?si… via @YouTube #WTNorthernIreland @WoodlandTrust

A great day had by all at our Family Tree Planting event as part of @niscifest 🌳🌱 Over 4000 trees planted, contributing to the extension of #FaughanValleyWoodlands @WoodlandTrust #WTNorthernIreland @HeritageFundNI 📷: @CinematicSky007

🌱 Check out our video on what to expect on a typical tree planting day in #FaughanValleyWoodlands. Lots more planting dates coming up !🌳 @WoodlandTrust #WTNorthernIreland #FaughanValley

Another great day's planting at Camphill Community - Mourne Grange. Many hands make light work and there is now over 200m of new native hedging to be found on Mourne Grange farm. #MoreWoods @HeritageFundNI @WoodlandTrust #WTNorthernIreland

Favourite thing about January 🌱 hazel flowers! Catkins in pic one containing many male flowers in a dangly cluster & teeny-tiny female flower in pic 2. #WTNorthernIreland #FaughanValley @WoodlandTrust

@WoodlandTrust #MournePark volunteers got together with the community at Camphill Community Mourne Grange, Kilkeel this morning to plant 100m of new hedging as part of #morewoods. Great work everyone! Special mention to young Albie and Kip! @HeritageFundNI #WTNorthernIreland

And thats a wrap on 2023 at #MournePark! Huge thanks to all our @WoodlandTrust volunteers, staff, community partners, funders/donors and supporters for a great year. We are Looking forward to an even more exciting 2024 with @HeritageFundNI. Have a lovely Christmas and New Year!

If Holly (Ilex aquifolium) finds its leaves are being nibbled by deer, it switches genes on to make them spiky when they regrow. So on taller Holly trees, the upper leaves (which are out of reach) have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are prickly 🤙

Had a lovely morning at #MournePark last week with Heather from Willowcraft and our friends from @KDAKilkeel making willow wreaths followed by a delicious lunch at The Penny Wall. @HeritageFundNI #WTNorthernIreland

Big thanks to Mark from @FieldStudiesIRL for delivering a fantastic bushcraft skills day for our #MournePark volunteers on Saturday. We are looking forward to practising our new found shelter building skills at our next task day! @HeritageFundNI #WTNorthernIreland

Thank you Dave and Bronagh @WoodlandTrust for being my guides on my first visit to the beautiful Mourne Park ancient woodland today. Looking forward to the year ahead, revealing lots more heritage stories to enjoy @HeritageFundNI @HeritageFundUK

A great mornings work @MournePark giving our 'dead hedge' a good sprucing up! We will coppice hazel to weave along the top and finish it off. We planted willow cuttings along it... perhaps it will become more of a 'living hedge'! @HeritageFundNI #WoodlandTrustNorthernIreland

Massive #ThanksToYou National Lottery players on Crossed Finger selfie day for funding our heritage work at #MournePark. @HeritageFundNI

It’s been great welcoming everyone to Faughan Valley Woodlands over this past week. Lots of happy visitors enjoying our new sculpture trails and connected woods. 🌳🌳🌳 🚶 🌳🌳🌳 #FaughanValley #WTNorthernIreland #HeritageIsOpen @WoodlandTrust @HeritageFundNI

We had quite the day on #AughrimHill on Wednesday removing tree guards. Despite the unreleting rain we saw numerous cinnabar moth caterpillars on the ragwort and several ant nests within the tree guards! We left those guards on. We were soaked but smiling by the end.

No better way to spend a dreary day than exploring the world of our open hill species on #AughrimHill and Knockchree #MournePark with the ever knowledgeable David Thompson. We recorded 35 different species of grasses, sedges and flora including wood sage, tormentil and bilberry.

Tomorrow we celebrate THE LANGUAGE OF TREES in Rostrevor on the shores of Carlingford Lough. The Fiddler's Green Festival starts Sunday July 23 at noon in the ancient Oak Wood. My event is in the Lecture Hall at 3.30pm. fiddlersgreenfestival.com/acts/book-laun…

Newry Street Unite Young Men's group and Hillside Men's Shed, Kilkeel had a very productive evening last week making bird boxes as part of their @JohnMuirTrust award to be added to their playground at #NewryStreetUnite. #WTNorthernIreland

Great day of surveying ancient, veteran and notable trees in #FaughanValley with @WTBronaghGall 🌳 for @WoodlandTrust #AncientTreeInventory, especially this spectacular willow 😍 #WTNorthernIreland @HeritageFundNI