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Welcome to Omeath Biodiversity, created by Omeath District Development to identify, protect and promote the diverse species of plants, animals, birds, wildlife, fauna and flora of the area, and to promote environmental awareness and practices in our Community.

We hope this will be a platform for the Community to share knowledge, their photographs, ideas and projects that will promote and protect our environment for future generations to appreciate and enjoy.

Under our remit we work in partnership with Omeath Tidy Towns on strategic plans, and have successfully worked in collaboration on a number of recreational and aesthetic enhancements for the village.

Biodiversity Christmas Newsletter 2024

 Have a look at our Christmas Newsletter and check out our 2024 Highlights, including New swift boxes erected onsite at the Dolmen Centre.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Biodiversity Christmas Newsletter 2023

It has been a busy year for our Biodiversity programmes here in the Dolmen Centre, Omeath. Have a look at our Christmas Newsletter and check out our 2023 Highlights & future projects for 2024. 

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

OMEATH BIOBLITZ 2026 🦋🐞🪰🐝🐛🐟🦀🌱🌲🌳🍄‍🟫🪸
Happening on the Shore of Omeath. if you would like to meet an Ecologist on the day and help with idenification and submitting of records please come along.
For further information please contact us here in the Dolmen Centre:
📞 042 9375422
📧 info@dbusiness.ie
Our bioblitz event is funded by Community Foundation Ireland and hosted by Goska Wilkowska, M.Sc. Ecologist. in parnership with Omeath District Development
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG), in collaboration with Fair Seas, is coming to the Dolmen Centre, Omeath in north Louth, on Thursday 30 April from 5.30pm to 8pm, as part of a series of free, in-person evening events in coastal towns around Ireland.
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The Local Groups Roadshow aims to connect coastal communities and local members of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group with the latest developments in marine conservation, marine protected areas (MPAs), the future of Ireland’s seas as well as discussing the species frequently seen off Ireland’s eastern and north eastern coasts.
Cooley Connect Well with project partners Louth Gardeners & Growers Collective, Omeath District Development, An Buthal and Hilltown Community Association are delighted to be launching our new gardening project on the 1st March 12noon Bluebell lane Glamping
Supported by the Shared Island Civic Society Fund
Come along to learn all about
Gardening for Nature Louth Armagh Down
Registration is essential
Book: gardeningfornature@gmail.com for further information contact: 0833924117
Gardening For Nature Louth Armagh Down project group have a few more events in March. We will have a table at the Louth Gardeners and Growers Collective Beo Spring Fair which is this Saturday the 21st from 10.30am. Next week we have a workshop hosted by Dundalk Inclusive Garden and supported by Louth Gardeners & Growers Collective and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund.
Join us this Saturday in Dundalk Inclusive Garden with our project partners Cooley Connect Well to get the (early) spuds planted! Part of the 2026 Gardening for Nature Project, this free workshop is kindly hosted by the good people in DIG.
Lots of tips and advice on how to plant and care for your spuds to guarantee a great harvest in 2026 ! 🥔🥔🥔
we are in Omeath this coming Saturday as part of the Growing For Nature Project. We will be planting up the courtyard behind the Dolmen Centre, with a focus on bringing biodiversity and sensory planting into that space. If you would like to donate plants and take part, please join us next Saturday or you can drop plants off at the Dolmen Centre during the week, all donations kindly appreciated 🙏🪻🌱🐞🌻
 
 

Alien invasive Plants Within The Omeath Village And It's Environs
REPORT

Summer solstice Fair 2025

Our Biodiversity Garden Onsite and Of Site at the Dolmen Centre 2025

Bat Walk Along Our Local Greenway

Bat Talk & Assessment Of Our Native Bats

A Bat Assessment Of Omeath

For Omeath District Development CLG
Dolmen Centre, Omeath, Co Louth.

By Donna Mullen M.P.P.M and Brian Keeley BSc Hons

Date of survey May 2023

GARDENING FOR BIODIVERSITY
Juanita Browne
Illustrated by: Barry Reynolds

The booklet below produced by Laois County Council plays a key role in promoting
heritage awareness, developing policy and providing advice
and information on local as well as national heritage issues, with Gardening for biodiversity.

A Kick Sampling Water Study In The Ryland River Omeath

Kick Sampling in rivers is a technique used to evaluate the water quality of a river by examine species diversity and invertebrates in a river bed by disturbing the river sediment of a flowing river and identifying species by using a fine mesh net.
Examples of invertebrates thay were being looked for in the kick sampling study were dragonfly, mayfly, water beatles, fly lava and chalcid wasps and from the sample analysis the quality of the river can be determined.

Community Biodiversity

This Community Biodiversity Action Plan has been created with a grant from The Community Foundation for Ireland (CFI) Environment and Nature Biodiversity programme. Omeath District Development CLG were successful with their grant application to Community Foundation Ireland. They partnered with Simon Barron, an Ecologist with BEC Consultants Ltd, for this project to bring together the plan since 2019. 
The Community Biodiversity Action Plan (CBAP) for Omeath is intended to work towards the promotion and celebration of biodiversity within the village and the surrounding area and to provide a plan by which the biodiversity can be enhanced. It was therefore important that all of the Omeath area be covered by the CBAP. 

Bio Garden Dolmen Centre Omeath

Community Orchard Planting

Gallery Of Native Irish Birds

Off Site Biodiversity Garden

Healthy Minds Healthy bodies Gardening course