Visitors swarm to Fore

The latest addition to the popular walking trail at Fore is part of a wider biodiversity drive being undertaken by Fore Heritage and Amenity Group.

In the next 10 years the group hope to develop areas along the walk that highlight the streams, woodland and fields and their unique plant, insect, bird, fish, amphibian and mammal life.

Already the vibrant yellow of the gorse and the first white flush of the May bush are decorating the trail and celandine, daisies, primroses and dandelions are coming out in the banks.

So with the restrictions lifted and more visitors in Fore, a new installation was quietly being built that is part of a vision to build biodiversity – the first beehive on St Feichin’s Trail.

Installed on the stretch nicknamed ‘Nancy to Nelly’ by Jerome Cully, from Turin, well known breeder of queen bees, the colony is in memory of his family as part of a living biodiversity legacy.

“These bees will take a few days to map out this area and they will be fed by the ivy and all the blossoms already out across the area,” said Jerome. “They will return to the hive and communicate the information about the new area by doing a dance in the hive.”

Cllr Frank McDermott, chairman of Fore Heritage and Amenity Group there to help build the hive. He said: “Biodiversity and protecting this extraordinary area are critical. We will do every thing we can to continue to improve this beautiful place and help return it to a place that is teeming with life.”