Roscommon Branch - Native Woodland Trust

01/08/2026

Grab your tickets for this fantastic family-friendly event for Heritage Week at our Rinnagan Wood nature reserve near Lecarrow!

🌿🎨 Drawing from the Woods – Heritage Week Wild Child Event

Join us at Rinnagan Wood Nature Reserve & Native Tree Nursery for a free morning of art, nature and woodland discovery.

Explore native trees and biodiversity on a guided woodland walk before working with artists Lily Bernard and Judith Ryan to create natural drawing tools, pigments and artwork inspired by the woodland around you.

📅 Saturday 22nd August
🕙 10:00am – 1:00pm
📍 Rinnagan Wood Nature Reserve, Co. Roscommon
No experience needed. All ages welcome.

A huge thank you to Roscommon County Council and the National Heritage Week Grant Scheme for supporting this special Heritage Week Wild Child event.

🎟️ Book your free place:
https://drawingfromthewoods.eventbrite.ie

01/08/2026

16/07/2026

One seed at a time 🍒🌞

Spreading an ancient woodland, one 🍒 seed at a time

On Saturday, volunteers from our Roscommon Branch - Native Woodland Trust gathered at St John's Wood, near Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon, for the first of this year's wild cherry seed collection days!

With permission from our friends in the National Parks and Wildlife Service we headed into one of Ireland's most important ancient woodlands in search of ripening wild cherry trees. Fortunately, the birds had already beaten us to many of them!
And that's exactly how we like it.

By feeding on the sweet fruit, birds leave behind the cherry stones beneath the parent trees, doing much of the seed processing work for us while ensuring wildlife receives the lion's share of nature's bounty.

After collecting nearly 400 cherry stones, we carried out a float test to identify the best quality seed, leaving around 200 viable seeds to bring home.

Just 500 metres away at Rinnagan Tree Nursery, volunteers cleaned, processed and sowed the seeds into overwintering trays. Over the coming months these seeds will begin their journey towards becoming young trees, helping us expand and restore native woodland using local, ancient woodland genetics.
We're due back for more cherry seed collection soon before turning our attention to hazelnuts in September.

🌿 Interested in joining us?
📧 [email protected]

Roscommon Public Participation Network Roscommon Volunteer Centre Roscommon County Council

18/06/2026

Volunteers in Roscommon – Conservation Action Day 🌱
Join us this Saturday at Rinnagan Wood & Tree Nursery for a hands-on day of nursery work and woodland care 🌳
From potting up seedlings to giving young trees some TLC, it’s a great chance to get involved — no experience needed 👍
📍 All details in the image
💬 DM or email to let us know you’re coming
Come along, get your hands dirty, and be part of our ancient native woodland expansion project 🌱
Roscommon Public Participation Network Roscommon Volunteer Centre Roscommon County Council

18/03/2026

Live in Roscommon or surrounds? We could use your help!

Thousands of seedlings we collected at the legendary St. Johns Wood are emerging from their overwintering trays. We're back at it this weekend at Rinnagan Nursery - extracting and sowing them into pots for their first growing season.

These little trees have ancient woodland DNA, and a bright future ahead to be planted in Rinnagan nature reserve just 500m away from their parent trees. It's ancient woodland expansion in action and we would love your support.

Simply DM or email [email protected] to RSVP

Roscommon Environmental Network Roscommon County Council Roscommon Public Participation Network Roscommon Heritage News & Info Roscommon Garden Club

17/03/2026

We're back at the nursery Sat 21st for more seedling sowing! Join us simply by RSVP to [email protected]