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Location and characteristics of the Lough Fad blanket bog to the south-west of Lough Derg

The location and characteristics of the Lough Fad Bog National Heritage Area (NHA)

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

Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve

Tags: bogland, conifer plantations, Dunragh Loughs, gneiss, heath, lakes, Lough Barderg, Lough Golagh, Pettigo plateau, Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve, pools, schist

Nesting sites of the Lesser Black-backed Gull and other birdlife on Inishgoosk

A description of the birdlife found on Lough Derg and Inishgoosk Island

Tags: biodiversity, birdlife, bogland, Brownhall, Common Gull (Larus canus), Durnesh Lough, Goldeneye, Greenland White-fronted Goose, Greylag Goose, Herring Gull, Inishgoosk, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Lough Derg SPA, Mallard, National Parks and Wildlife Service, nesting, Pettigo plateau, seagulls, Tufted Duck

Jenny struggles with her emotions

Jenny struggles with her sense of spirituality as she completes the circuits of the penitentian beds

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

John O'Donovan catches a cold

"I visited the far famed terrestrial purgatory of Lough Derg, but received no benefit from my turas except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the lake, and to the chillyness (chilliness) of the wind than to…

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

The extent of the Templecarn bogs

"Though the number of bogs in this district is considerable, yet few of them reach to any great extent..."

Tags: bogland, extent, fir, landscape, Lieutenant W. Lancey, North West Farming Society, oak, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, Termon Magrath, trees

The appearance of Lough Derg

"Lough Derg is a large sheet of water surrounded by black bogs relieved only by few detached cabins and patches of cultivation and its groups of islands..."

Tags: agriculture, appearance, bogland, cultivation, islands, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, mountains, negative description, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, quaking bog, remoteness, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne

The dimensions of Lough Derg

"The lakes [of the Parish of Templecarn] amount to 110, of which Lough Derg is the most extensive..."

The bogs of Templecarn

"There is a vast extent of bog in Templecarn in which fir and other timber are found..."

Tags: blanket bog, bogland, ecosystem, environment, fir, landscape, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, quaking bog, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, water

"Rolling, tawny bogland framed the blue water"

"Turning back from [St. Dabheoc's Seat] to look down on Lough Derg, the aerial view of Station Island is exquisite..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, birdlife, bogland, climate, colour, isolation, lake, larks, quaking bog, silence, St. Dabheoc's Seat, Station Island, twentieth century, view north, vista, weather, wind

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