About NFM Inishowen

Natural Flood Management or Natural Water Retention Measures is a means of alleviating flooding through the use of natural processes.

In December 2020 the Inishowen Rivers Trust was awarded ~€135,000 from the EU LEADER Programme, OPW, Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO) and Donegal County Council to bring nature based flood solutions to the Clonmany area. Over the previous three years the Trust has increased our knowledge of Natural Flood Management (NFM) through a series of awareness raising events, a scoping project with Trinity College and community engagement in Carndonagh and Clonmany. You can read more about the background to this work below.

This new project for the Trust engages a number of experts in various fields and is called ‘On the Ground – Natural Flood Management – Inishowen’. The project focuses on the Clonmany area of Inishowen and during 2021 a range of NFM measures were implemented in Clonmany.

The Inishowen Rivers Trust would like to extend a huge thank you to the community of Clonmany for their participation and contribution to this project. Without their committment and foresight, this project could not have happened.

We would also like to extend our thanks to our funders and the partners who helped us to get this project On the Ground!

Partners: Mark Davenport, Inish Forestry, McCloy Consulting, Jessica Devlin, Macruari Audio and Film Services, Bizzprint and Clonmany Community Centre.