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Whats Happening on Inishowen Rivers

10 years of Inishowen Rivers Trust

Inishowen River Guardian’s Training Project


Our Natural Heritage and Sustainable Future- An Introduction to the Sligo Bay Catchment Rivers Trust

Sligo Bay Catchment Rivers Trust Introduction

CRiBZ Culdaff Riparian Buffer Zone Scheme 2022

River Safety Training with the Inishowen Rivers Trust

What is Natural Flood Management? A short explainer

Long Glen River Project – Kinnagoe Bay

Night of the Big Flood – Inishowen – 22nd Aug 2017

Get Involved – On the Ground – NFM Clonmany 2021

How to make a brash bundle

What effect can a brash revetment have on the river?

What is a River Revetment?

What is Brash

What to wear when you attend a brash collection event

Interviews with Clonmany community members on August 22 2017 Floods in Inishowen

Winter Water Workshop 3 – Surface Water Quality

Winter Water Workshop 2 Rivers of Knowledge

Riparian Rights and Responsibilities by Paul McMahon

Nature Based Solutions for Flood Reduction

What is Brash and how it is used in river restoration.

Mill River Conservation Group and Inishowen Rivers Trust building a river revetment.





Tunnocks – The Unique Flavour of the IRT_with notes.pptx

SuDS Workshop Scoil Mhuire Tuesday 27th February 2024






CRIBZ Culdaff Riparian Buffer Zone: Water Quality on the Farm including CSSI

Action Against Invasives: The problems & solutions to invasive alien species







Eels, Enigmas and Lough Neagh

THE EUROPEAN EEL IN INISHOWEN A DESKTOP RESEARCH REPORT

DRAINAGE & RIVER MANAGEMENT Ken Whelan & Rosemary McCloskey

Drainage and River Management IRT Webinar

Inga Bock, Donegal Rural Recreation Officer (DLDC) – Rural Recreation in County Donegal – (2.2MB PDF)

Nature Based Solutions for Flood Management in Inishowen (with specific focus on Clonmany) – 23rd July 2020

The Opportunities for Natural Water Retention Measures in Inishowen – 14th Feb 2020

Catchment Management: a holistic, interventionist approach to catchment management


The Storm: Professor Mary Bourke Department of Geography, Trinity College, Dublin.


Slow the Flow Feb 2018


Woodlands for Water: Using trees and riparian planting to alleviate flooding

Volunteer Registration Form

On the Ground – Natural Flood Management – Inishowen

Building Leaky Dams in Inishowen, Co. Donegal

Woody Material in Rivers

Water Chemistry in Rivers 5: Nitrates and Phosphates

Water Chemistry in Rivers 4: Nitrates & Phosphates

Water Chemistry in Rivers 3: pH and Conductivity

Water Chemistry in Rivers 2: Sedimentation

Water Chemistry in Rivers 1: Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen

Silt trap for woodlands

Leaky Dams Clonmany, Inishowen

(Domestic) Constructed Wetlands System in Inishowen

Ponds for Biodiversity

Nature Based Solutions on Farm Drains

Donagh River Walk, Carndonagh

Nature Based Solutions on an Inishowen Farm

Inishowen Rivers Trust – Willow Spiling

TREE WEEK IN INISHOWEN 2021

How to take a compass bearing

Nature Based Solutions for Flood Management in Clonmany


Who’s Who on Inishowen Rivers








The Governance Code Introduction.



