Gaelic Woodland Project: Building a community-rooted charity

A meitheal was a coooperative labour system used in rural Ireland — an environmental volunteering charity is now using the meitheal method to tackle invasive trees to help create native woodlands, writes Santiago Rial

2025 Meitheal. Pictures: Gaelic Woodland Project 

The Gaelic Woodland Project is a 100% volunteering charity which aims to remove invasive cherry laurel from our forests and purchase land for the creation of native woodlands.

Growing towards these goals, our roots are firmly planted in community, which fuels culture change, which in turn feeds our native woodlands.