Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua
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Group of Volunteers passionate about our town & #LiffeyLinearPark Help enhance your local environment in planned / coordinated way. #Vision4Newbridge 🇮🇪
Newbridge, Co. Kildare
Joined April 2015
Moorhen.Gallinula chloropus.Cearc uisce. AKA Waterhen. There’s lots of birdlife on the LHDParklands lake in #Newbridge. Adult upperparts are dark brown, it's bill is red with a yellow tip, yellow-green legs & long toes. Feeds on plants, insects, seeds, fruit, tadpoles & more.
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#Butterfly.Large White.Pieris Brassicae.Bánóg Mhór. A resident species, with larger areas of black on the wing tips than the Small White. Cabbage plant is one of its foodplants. Adults seen in active flight in many habitats. Two generations annually. It has a pale dusty underside
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#Dragonfly.Common Darter.Sympetrum striolatum.Sciobaire Coiteann. Frequents shallow pools, ponds, still or stagnant watercourses & perches in sunlight on waterside plants June / October. Colour varies from yellow-brown to orange-red. Wing spot colour varies. Áilleacht an dúlra!
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RT @KildareCoCo: 🎉 National Play Day 2025! 🎉 . Join us for a fun-filled, inclusive event at Áras Chill Dara, Naas on Saturday, 6th Septembe….
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Could you participate in our “Pick a Patch” initiative. You choose the place, the day, the time & frequency that suits YOU & keep it #LitterFree. We supply hi-viz vests, gloves, litter pickers & bags can be supplied as well. Contact us here or on
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Perforate St John's-wort.Hypericum perforatum.Lus na Maighdine Muire. A native perennial flowering May to September, 5 yellow petals which have small black dots around their edge & lots of stamens at its centre. Found in grassy places, road verges etc. #WildflowerHour
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Looks like:. Honeysuckle.Lonicera periclymenum.Féithleann. AKA Woodbine, a native scented plant flowering from June to October, the flowers are creamy / yellow / reddish in colour and are followed by scarlet berries in autumn. Often visited by #Bees & #Moths. #WildflowerHour
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Rosebay Willowherb.Chamaenerion angustifolium.Lus na tine. A native wildflower, AKA Fireweed, generally flowering from June to September, is quite a tall plant. Thrives on disturbed ground, boggy areas & roadsides. #WildflowerHour
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Water Mint.Mentha aquatica.Mismín mionsach. A native hairy, upright perennial with a lilac blue flower, seen flowering July to September on damp ground, waterways & rivers. Oval leaves, toothed with faint reddish hue. Here with a visiting #Peacock #butterfly. #WildflowerHour
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Field Scabious.Knautia arvensis.Cab an ghasáin. A tall perennial native lilac-blue flower, small inner petals, large longer outer petals. Found in the #wildflower meadow in the #LiffeyLinearPark this week. Vsiting Painted Lady & Small Tortoiseshell #Butterflies. #WildflowerHour
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Himalayan balsam.Impatiens glandulifera.Lus na pléisce. An attractive but extremely invasive flower/plant. Inhabits riverbanks & causes quite significant environmental damage. This one over 2 metres tall with large pale pink trumpet flowers in August. #WildflowerHour
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Wild Marjoram.Origanum vulgare.Máirtin fiáin. This is a native plant generally flowering from July – September. Quite aromatic, reasonably tall & attracts many insects & #Pollinators. #wildflowerhour
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RT @NationalSpringC: Newbridge Tidy Towns hard at work this week!.The group tidied up their flower pots and got litter-picking around the t….
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RT @KildareCoCo: National Heritage Week celebrates Ireland’s cultural, built and natural heritage. It brings together volunteers, communit….
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Coot.Fulica atra.Cearc cheannann. There’s lots of birdlife on the LHDParklands lake in #Newbridge. Introducing the #Coot family or in Irish Cearc cheannann (the hen with a blaze on its forehead). Feeds on lakeside plants, but also feeds on seeds, insects, algae & small fish.
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Peacock.Inachis io.Péacóg. Spectacular in appearance & colour this #butterfly is relatively large & easily recognisable by its large eye-spots on its hind-wings. The underside is a dullish brown & it’s fairly widespread & hibernates through the winter. Áilleachtaí an dúlra!
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It can be difficult to deter folks from #littering please don’t throw YOUR litter on the street – place it in the litter bin. It's NOT too difficult to prevent #Litter in our parks & public spaces. #PickAPatch
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A #HeritageWeek talk.Great Connell Priory.TONIGHT 21 Aug 7:30pm - 9pm.Newbridge Town Hall. Learn about the Priory of the Cannons Regular of St. Augustine, founded by Myler FitzHenry in 1202 at Great Connell near the Connell Ford, it was suppressed in 1541.
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This illustrated presentation will focus on the ruins of the thirteenth-century Greatconnell Abbey (SMR KD023-016---) and associated eighteenth-century graveyar...
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RT @BioDataCentre: 🚨 Dataset Update 🚨 . Our Ladybirds of Ireland dataset has recently been updated .The dataset currently has 21,663 across….
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