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"A landscape that is usually a monotonous monochrome of either brown or grey tints"

"There is a lake called Lough Derg in County Donegal which has acquired extraordinary fame both in Christian history and in general literature..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, colour, description, emotion, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), isolation, landscape, mountains, Rome, rural landscape, twentieth century, vista

"One of the loneliest places on earth"

"[Lough Derg] is one of the loneliest places on earth. Its boulder-strewn shores, thirteen miles in circumference, seem to have retained all their original wildness..."

Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, Birch (Betula spp.), forest, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), hills, isolation, larch, loneliness, negative description, reforestation, rural landscape, stones, trees, twentieth century, underdevelopment

"The Chair stands out sharply against the vandyke brown of hibernating heathers and the orange of wilted bracken"

"Returning to the lake shore, another notable landmark there should be considered, Saint Brigid's Chair. It is a large rock, roughly-shaped like a high-backed chair, and its is prominent even among the large boulders surrounding it..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), Bridget's Chair, colour, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), lake stones, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, pine, rock, shoreline, St. Brigid, St. Brigid's Chair, St. Dabheoc's Seat, tree, twentieth century

"Wild and gloomy loneliness"

"Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness."

Tags: arbutus, colour, description, fauna, fishing, flora, fly fishing, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Henry Newland, isolation, loneliness, memoir, mountains, myrica, nineteenth century, remoteness, wildness

Croaghonagh Bog Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Croaghonagh Bog Special Area of Conservation

Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation

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.

Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation

Tags: Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Birch (Betula spp.), Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), bogland, Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), cattle, Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Compact Rush (Juncus conglomeratus), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), fauna, flora, Gorse (Ulex europaeus), Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Rush (Juncus squarrosus), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Jointed Rush (J. articulatus), lake, Lesser Spearwort (Ranunculus flammula), Lichen (C. portentosa), Lichen (Cladonia uncialis), Lough Nageage, Oak (Quercus spp.), occasional Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), sphagnum moss, Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), vicinity, Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes)

Tamur Bog Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Tamur Bog Special Area of Conservation

Tags: Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Badger (Meles meles), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Bog moss (Sphagnum spp.), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Broad Buckler-fern (Dryopteris dilatata)., cattle, Common Club-rush (Scirpus lacustris), Common Frog, Common Lizard, Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Common Valerian (Valeriana officinalis), Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos), Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Downy Birch (Betula pubescens), dryness, False Oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius), Greenland White-fronted Goose, Hare’s-tail Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum), Irish Hare, Lesser Bladderwort (Utricularia minor), Marsh Pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris)., Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre), Otter, Perfoliate Pondweed (Potamogeton perfoliatus), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum), Rhyncehosporion Vegetation, Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), Soft Rush, Soft Rush (Juncus effusus), sphagnum moss, Tamur bog, vicinity, Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris), Willow (Salix spp.), Yellow Water-lily (Nuphar lutea)

The lough in the twelfth century

"On every side of the island lay the watery fields, winding themselves into inlets and across bays. Great sheets of water, unbroken save by a group of smaller islands that rode like ships that had run to seed and blossom in tropical seas, with the…

Tags: Augustinians, Celtic revival, daily life, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), landscape, literature, monasticism, mountains, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, twelfth century

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