The Nanny-Delvin Rivers Trust brings together communities, landowners and local partners to restore ecological health across the Nanny and Delvin catchments, strengthen stewardship and support practical local action.
From headwaters to estuary, the Nanny and Delvin catchments connect landscapes, communities, habitats and water. The Trust works across these systems to support restoration, stewardship and better-informed local action.
The Trust exists to support practical restoration, strengthen stewardship, and turn concern for river health into visible action. Healthy rivers support biodiversity, local identity, landscape resilience, and long-term community benefit.
By 2028, the Trust aims to support visible, defensible progress through river-corridor care, wetland opportunities, habitat repair, estuary stewardship and citizen science, with practical action grounded in evidence and local partnership.
See Practical Action PathwaysRestoration happens locally. A hub structure helps people see where they belong and how the wider catchment fits together.
Upstream intervention matters. Source areas are often where runoff pathways, drainage pressures, and habitat condition can be addressed before impacts intensify downstream.
Farms, villages, and field margins are where stewardship becomes visible through buffers, wetlands, hedgerows, fencing, and repeat site observation.
The estuarine edge is where habitat, biodiversity, sediment dynamics, invasive species, and public interest all converge.
The Trust supports practical, evidence-informed restoration across the catchment while creating clear pathways for communities, landowners and partners to participate.
Nanny Watch connects structured citizen science, repeat observation and ecological context to help build a more useful picture of catchment condition.
Riparian buffers, wetlands, sediment features, hedgerows and corridor repair can help restore ecological and hydrological function where measures are well matched to place.
The estuary requires careful monitoring, ecological safeguards and coordinated stewardship, particularly where invasive species and sensitive habitats are involved.
Help monitor stream health, contribute observations, learn how measures function in the field, and support careful estuary stewardship.
Go to Citizen Science HubThe Nanny And Delvin Rivers Trust Company Limited By Guarantee is an Irish company limited by guarantee (CRO 789559), with its registered office at National Ecology Centre Sonairte, Ninch, Laytown, Co. Meath, A92 D9XH, Ireland.
The Trust is not currently a registered charity.