Catchment 2025 Lough Muckno is taking place starting from Friday 4th July to Sunday 6th July 2025. The Muckno Mania Festival is delighted to team up with The School of Looking in celebrating nature on the shores of Lough Muckno!
Catchment 2025 Events at the Muckno Mania Festival:
Friday 4th July – 7.30pm – 8.30pm – Íontas Theatre
Artists Cleary and Connolly tell about their Eco Showboat journey travelling the Irish waterways on a solar powered boat, and project their newly completed short film ‘White Island’, discussing biodiversity on Lough Muckno with botanist Alexis FitzGerald.
Saturday July 5th 11am – 12pm – Castleblayney Library
SPOKEN WORD Local children have been working with children’s author Fiona Longmuir to explore creative writing inspired by botanist Alexis FitzGerald’s book the Flora of County Monaghan, at Lough Muckno. Join us to hear them read some of their work.
12.30 – 2.30 pm: CREATING WITH PLANT DYES, with Dervla McElvaney.
Castleblayney Library
2 pm – 4 pm: NATURE SQUARED a walk to White Island to observe, record and photograph some of the wild flowers that appear in Alexis Fitzgerald’s book, guided by artists Cleary and Connolly!
4.30 pm – 6 pm: BEE COUNTED! a visit to White Island to count and photograph bees, guided by artists Cleary and Connolly! Help monitor pollinators and contribute to the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan.
Castleblayney Library car park
Sunday 6th July
11 am – 1 pm: HAVE YOU SEEN THE LADIES: Ladybirds are particularly hard to spot. Artist’s Cleary and Connolly have a few tricks to spot them and help the National Biodiversity Data Centre compile the Ladybird Atlas 2025.
Castleblayney Library car park
Booking is Essential for the Catchment events booking details below:
Website Link: https://www.schooloflooking.org/CATCHMENTS/LoughMuckno.html
Or Email: clearyconnolly@gmail.com for booking link.
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