Browse Items (35 total)

Tags: Badger (Meles meles), biodiversity, Bitter-vetch (Lathyrus montanus), Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria albicans), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Breesy Hill, cattle, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra), Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), dryness, Early-purple Orchid (Orchis mascula), fauna, flora, gneiss, Great Fen-sedge (Cladium mariscus), Grey Heron, Gull, Hazel (Corylus avellana), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Juniper (Juniperis communis), Kestrel, Lichens (Cladonia portentosa and C. uncialis), limestone, Lough Cam, Lough Finn, Lough Golagh, Lough Lee, Lough Unshin, ommon Club-rush (Scirpus lacustris), peat extraction, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Raven, Red Grouse, Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), snipe, sphagnum moss, Spiked Water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), Stonechat, vicinity, Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), Woodpigeon.

Tags: Alder (Alnus glutinosa), Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus), Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), biodiversity, bogland, Clogher, Donegal Town, Downy Birch (Betula pubescens), dryness, flora, Freshwater Pearl Mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera), Hazel (Corylus avellana), Holly (Ilex aquifolium), Killarney Fern (Trichomanes speciosum), lake, Lough Eske, Moss (C. filicinum), Moss (Cratoneuron commutatum), Moss (Eucladium verticillatum), Old Oak Woodlands, Oligotrophic waters, Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur), Petrifying Springs, Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia), Six-stamened Waterwort (Elatine hexandra), Star Sedge (Carex echinata), vicinity, Whorled Caraway (Carum verticillatum), Willow (Salix spp.)

Tags: Ballintra River, blanket bog, bogland, forestry, gneiss, Lough Atarriff, Lough Fad, Lough Fad Bog NHA, Lough Nabrackmore., Lough Nacraghan, Lough Nageage, Lough Natragh, National Parks and Wildlife Service, peat, Pettigo, Waterfoot River, watershed

Tags: bogland, sphagnum moss

Tags: bogland, cold, hills, John O'Donovan, mountains, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Royal Irish Academy, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, Station Island, stations, weather

Tags: bogland, cold, complaint, criticism, crossing, John O'Donovan, letters, negative description, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, pilgrim, rain, sickness, weather

Tags: anguish, bogland, colour, discomfort, embodied experience, emotion, light, literature, mud, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, smell, stations, subjectivity, twentieth century, water, weather, wetness

Tags: Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella), Bog-myrtle (Myrica gale), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Broad-leaved Pondweed (Potamogeton natans), Carnation Sedge (Carex panicea), Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Crossleaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Devil’s-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), Hylocomium splendens (moss), Jointed Rush (Juncus articulatus), Leucobryum glaucum, Lichens (Cladonia portentosa and C. uncialis), Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Lough Fad, Lough Fad Bog NHA, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia), peat, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Racomitrium lanuginosum, Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris), Sphagnum auriculatum, Sphagnum capillifolium, Sphagnum compactum, Sphagnum imbricatum, sphagnum moss, Sphagnum papillosum, Sphagnum recurvumon, Sphagnum subnitens, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), swallow hole, Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), Wavy Hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa), White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), Wild Thyme (Thymus praecox), Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus)

Tags: biodiversity, blanket bog, Bog moss (Sphagnum spp.), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Croaghonagh Bog, Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Curlew, Deer, Donegal Town, dryness, Great Sundew (Drosera anglica), Greenland White-fronted Goose, Hare, Hare’s-tail Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Kestrel., Lesser Bladderwort (Utricularia minor), Merlin, Otter, Red Grouse, sphagnum moss, vicinity

Tags: Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Common Reed (Phragmites australis), conifer plantations, Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), Deergrass (Scirpus caespitosus), dryness, Great Sundew (D. anglica), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Rush (Juncus squarrosus), Juniper (Juniperus communis), Lesser Bladderwort (Utricularia minor), Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Purple Moor-grass, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), sphagnum moss, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), vicinity, White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba)