Crescent moon setting over Stamullen, Meath earlier this month during sunset.
January 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Crescent moon setting over Stamullen, Meath earlier this month during sunset.
Building Corridors for Wildlife 🌍🌱
Stamullen is connecting nature through hedgerows that serve as highways for birds, bats, and small mammals! Planting hedgerows doesn’t just boost #biodiversity - it reconnects our shared environment. Reach out to us and be part of this green revolution.
Stamullen is connecting nature through hedgerows that serve as highways for birds, bats, and small mammals! Planting hedgerows doesn’t just boost #biodiversity - it reconnects our shared environment. Reach out to us and be part of this green revolution.
April 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Building Corridors for Wildlife 🌍🌱
Stamullen is connecting nature through hedgerows that serve as highways for birds, bats, and small mammals! Planting hedgerows doesn’t just boost #biodiversity - it reconnects our shared environment. Reach out to us and be part of this green revolution.
Stamullen is connecting nature through hedgerows that serve as highways for birds, bats, and small mammals! Planting hedgerows doesn’t just boost #biodiversity - it reconnects our shared environment. Reach out to us and be part of this green revolution.
This is our community #garden in the making. We want it to be #accessible to all. Can anyone put us in the way of advice or grants to get this done? ♿ 🌱
December 1, 2024 at 10:26 PM
This is our community #garden in the making. We want it to be #accessible to all. Can anyone put us in the way of advice or grants to get this done? ♿ 🌱
A couple of video tours of our #gardens in Stamullen, county Meath, #Ireland. Do you like?
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December 11, 2024 at 6:23 PM
A couple of video tours of our #gardens in Stamullen, county Meath, #Ireland. Do you like?
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A brilliant wildflower meadow created by local volunteers in Stamullen, including Gareth McDonnell.
Simple, beautiful, and full of life. 🌼🦋
Simple, beautiful, and full of life. 🌼🦋
May 28, 2026 at 2:58 PM
A brilliant wildflower meadow created by local volunteers in Stamullen, including Gareth McDonnell.
Simple, beautiful, and full of life. 🌼🦋
Simple, beautiful, and full of life. 🌼🦋
New video: Where to put a hedgehog house — filmed at the Stamullen Community Garden.
A quick guide to giving hedgehogs a safe, shaded place to nest.
#Hedgehog #Gardeningwell #Biodiversity #Stamullen
A quick guide to giving hedgehogs a safe, shaded place to nest.
#Hedgehog #Gardeningwell #Biodiversity #Stamullen
Where to Put a Hedgehog House
YouTube video by Gardening Well
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October 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New video: Where to put a hedgehog house — filmed at the Stamullen Community Garden.
A quick guide to giving hedgehogs a safe, shaded place to nest.
#Hedgehog #Gardeningwell #Biodiversity #Stamullen
A quick guide to giving hedgehogs a safe, shaded place to nest.
#Hedgehog #Gardeningwell #Biodiversity #Stamullen
This is a community garden just outside Stamullen.
No wildflower seed mix. No expensive landscaping. No complex management plan.
Just less mowing, a little patience, and room for nature to return.
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No wildflower seed mix. No expensive landscaping. No complex management plan.
Just less mowing, a little patience, and room for nature to return.
🌱 gardeningwell.ie
June 15, 2026 at 6:43 PM
This is a community garden just outside Stamullen.
No wildflower seed mix. No expensive landscaping. No complex management plan.
Just less mowing, a little patience, and room for nature to return.
🌱 gardeningwell.ie
No wildflower seed mix. No expensive landscaping. No complex management plan.
Just less mowing, a little patience, and room for nature to return.
🌱 gardeningwell.ie
Zack strimmed and raked this area of grass at the Stamullen community garden and planted native wild flower seed which will set off the fabulous donated fruit trees. 🌱🌎🦋
March 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Zack strimmed and raked this area of grass at the Stamullen community garden and planted native wild flower seed which will set off the fabulous donated fruit trees. 🌱🌎🦋
Please repost, follow to help us spread the word about Wildlife gardening, biodiversity & climate action 🌍🌱
September 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Please repost, follow to help us spread the word about Wildlife gardening, biodiversity & climate action 🌍🌱
If you live near stamullen County Meath and you want some sunflower seeds I have a few (hundred) to spare. Now is the time to plant them indoors to plant out after the last frost. 🌱 #spéirgorm
April 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you live near stamullen County Meath and you want some sunflower seeds I have a few (hundred) to spare. Now is the time to plant them indoors to plant out after the last frost. 🌱 #spéirgorm
Community wildlife garden, a slice of heaven!
🌱🌎🦋☘️
🌱🌎🦋☘️
February 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Community wildlife garden, a slice of heaven!
🌱🌎🦋☘️
🌱🌎🦋☘️
This patch used to be “tidy.”
Now it’s a foxglove forest humming with insects — all from doing less, not more.
Wildlife gardening isn’t about perfection. It’s about giving nature permission.
If you grabbed the wildlife gardening starter guide from my earlier post, show me your wildest corner.
Now it’s a foxglove forest humming with insects — all from doing less, not more.
Wildlife gardening isn’t about perfection. It’s about giving nature permission.
If you grabbed the wildlife gardening starter guide from my earlier post, show me your wildest corner.
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This patch used to be “tidy.”
Now it’s a foxglove forest humming with insects — all from doing less, not more.
Wildlife gardening isn’t about perfection. It’s about giving nature permission.
If you grabbed the wildlife gardening starter guide from my earlier post, show me your wildest corner.
Now it’s a foxglove forest humming with insects — all from doing less, not more.
Wildlife gardening isn’t about perfection. It’s about giving nature permission.
If you grabbed the wildlife gardening starter guide from my earlier post, show me your wildest corner.
I got this from a primary school teacher who read Nature’s Acre.
April 25, 2026 at 10:30 AM
I got this from a primary school teacher who read Nature’s Acre.
“The garden makes me feel like I’m in my happy place.”
A fifth-class pupil’s words about our walled garden in Stamullen.
We grow food and make room for wildlife here. Hearing what the place means to the children is something else entirely.
A fifth-class pupil’s words about our walled garden in Stamullen.
We grow food and make room for wildlife here. Hearing what the place means to the children is something else entirely.
September 28, 2026 at 6:41 PM
“The garden makes me feel like I’m in my happy place.”
A fifth-class pupil’s words about our walled garden in Stamullen.
We grow food and make room for wildlife here. Hearing what the place means to the children is something else entirely.
A fifth-class pupil’s words about our walled garden in Stamullen.
We grow food and make room for wildlife here. Hearing what the place means to the children is something else entirely.
Ms Griffin's 5th class at the walled garden in Stamullen with Ciaran from GardeningWell. “they were a delight: so knowledgeable, interested and excited about gardening and the environment. They are the future and the future is bright!”
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November 27, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Ms Griffin's 5th class at the walled garden in Stamullen with Ciaran from GardeningWell. “they were a delight: so knowledgeable, interested and excited about gardening and the environment. They are the future and the future is bright!”
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Added the understory layer to the Stamullen pocket forest 🌱
These are native Irish woodland plants:
wild garlic, primrose, wood avens, bluebell...
They’ll form the living carpet beneath the trees — feeding pollinators, building soil, turning a patch of grass beside the school into an ecosystem.
These are native Irish woodland plants:
wild garlic, primrose, wood avens, bluebell...
They’ll form the living carpet beneath the trees — feeding pollinators, building soil, turning a patch of grass beside the school into an ecosystem.
March 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Added the understory layer to the Stamullen pocket forest 🌱
These are native Irish woodland plants:
wild garlic, primrose, wood avens, bluebell...
They’ll form the living carpet beneath the trees — feeding pollinators, building soil, turning a patch of grass beside the school into an ecosystem.
These are native Irish woodland plants:
wild garlic, primrose, wood avens, bluebell...
They’ll form the living carpet beneath the trees — feeding pollinators, building soil, turning a patch of grass beside the school into an ecosystem.
🌎🌱
♥️ Bats?
Free bat box on offer (collection in Stamullen).
Just tell us why you want a bat box and share.
Winner will be announced in 2 weeks. Bat boxes an available from Elite Garden Village €30
♥️ Bats?
Free bat box on offer (collection in Stamullen).
Just tell us why you want a bat box and share.
Winner will be announced in 2 weeks. Bat boxes an available from Elite Garden Village €30
December 5, 2024 at 3:28 PM
🌎🌱
♥️ Bats?
Free bat box on offer (collection in Stamullen).
Just tell us why you want a bat box and share.
Winner will be announced in 2 weeks. Bat boxes an available from Elite Garden Village €30
♥️ Bats?
Free bat box on offer (collection in Stamullen).
Just tell us why you want a bat box and share.
Winner will be announced in 2 weeks. Bat boxes an available from Elite Garden Village €30
#31daysofgraves #31 Memento Mori
A cadaver/transi slab, said to be for Jane Preston, at Stamullen, Ireland, carved with a decomposing corpse in an open shroud, tied at head and foot, c. 1450.
Many more photos at the link.
www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p...
A cadaver/transi slab, said to be for Jane Preston, at Stamullen, Ireland, carved with a decomposing corpse in an open shroud, tied at head and foot, c. 1450.
Many more photos at the link.
www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p...
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#31daysofgraves #31 Memento Mori
A cadaver/transi slab, said to be for Jane Preston, at Stamullen, Ireland, carved with a decomposing corpse in an open shroud, tied at head and foot, c. 1450.
Many more photos at the link.
www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p...
A cadaver/transi slab, said to be for Jane Preston, at Stamullen, Ireland, carved with a decomposing corpse in an open shroud, tied at head and foot, c. 1450.
Many more photos at the link.
www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p...
#WyrdWednesday [Sorry, a prone stone, not standing.] 1856 The peasants point out large flat stones under which they suppose the pestilence to be buried, and which they are anxious not to raise, lest it should emerge, and again contaminate the atmosphere.
[Stamullen transi stone, Irishstones.org ]
[Stamullen transi stone, Irishstones.org ]
July 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
#WyrdWednesday [Sorry, a prone stone, not standing.] 1856 The peasants point out large flat stones under which they suppose the pestilence to be buried, and which they are anxious not to raise, lest it should emerge, and again contaminate the atmosphere.
[Stamullen transi stone, Irishstones.org ]
[Stamullen transi stone, Irishstones.org ]
In the garden related news. Well, I suppose there’s sticks and grass involved. Zack’s team Saint Patrick’s Stamullen are Meath under the 13th division D Hurling champions! #spéirgorm
October 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In the garden related news. Well, I suppose there’s sticks and grass involved. Zack’s team Saint Patrick’s Stamullen are Meath under the 13th division D Hurling champions! #spéirgorm
Anybody looking for accommodation in Stamullen County Meath… this is a private suite of three rooms in our house that we are renting out.
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Private Self-Contained Suite (Double Room + En-suite + Kitchenette) – Own Space in House , Stamullen, Co. Meath to share on Daft.ie
House share on Private Self-Contained Suite (Double Room + En-suite + Kitchenette) – Own Space in House , Stamullen, Co. Meath is now on Daft.ie for €1,165 per month
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April 3, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Anybody looking for accommodation in Stamullen County Meath… this is a private suite of three rooms in our house that we are renting out.
www.daft.ie/share/stamul...
www.daft.ie/share/stamul...
I had a lovely conversation with Gerry Kelly on LMFM’s Late Lunch today about wildlife gardening, the Stamullen walled garden and how it became my book Nature’s Acre.
Listen here 👇
Listen here 👇
March 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I had a lovely conversation with Gerry Kelly on LMFM’s Late Lunch today about wildlife gardening, the Stamullen walled garden and how it became my book Nature’s Acre.
Listen here 👇
Listen here 👇
May 17, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I was in Saint Patrick’s national school, Stamullen on Tuesday where I read from my book for the first time in public. I was delighted with the reaction from the kids. One girl came up to me afterwards and said. “You’ve inspired me to do gardening.”
I’m over the moon.
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I’m over the moon.
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Ciaran’s first time reading from his book in public!
YouTube video by Gardening Well
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March 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM
I was in Saint Patrick’s national school, Stamullen on Tuesday where I read from my book for the first time in public. I was delighted with the reaction from the kids. One girl came up to me afterwards and said. “You’ve inspired me to do gardening.”
I’m over the moon.
youtube.com/shorts/vteg6...
I’m over the moon.
youtube.com/shorts/vteg6...
If you have a spot over 12 feet high facing east or south east then you can hang a bat box. We have 4 species of bat living in Stamullen. Available at Elite garden village.
November 16, 2024 at 8:45 PM
If you have a spot over 12 feet high facing east or south east then you can hang a bat box. We have 4 species of bat living in Stamullen. Available at Elite garden village.