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Tags: approach, bogland, commercialism, crossing, description, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, road, Station Island, vista, walk

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

Tags: approach, bogland, eighteenth century, inaccessibility, John Richardson, mountains, Protestant critique, roads, rocks, terrain, wildness

Tags: Badger (Meles meles), Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), Bladderwort (Utricularia sp.), Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bog-myrtle (Myrica gale), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), Broad-leaved Pondweed (Potamogeton natans), Bulbous Rush (Juncus Bulbosus), Carnation Sedge (Carex panicea), Clogher, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Common Frog, Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Devil’s-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), dryness, Fir Clubmoss (Huperzia selago), Golden Plover, Great Sundew (D. anglica), Green-ribbed Sedge, Green-ribbed Sedge (Carex binervis), Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Grass (Danthonia decumbens), Heath Milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia), Irish Hare, Lesser Spearwort, Ling Heather, Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Marsh Pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris), Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre), Marsh Violet, Mat Grass (Nardus stricta), Peregrine Falcon, Purple Moor-grass, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), quaking bog, Quillwort (Isoetes lacustris), Red Grouse, Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis), Sheep’s Fescue (Festuca ovina), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), sphagnum moss, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), Tormentil, Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), Velvet Bent (Agrostis canina), Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), wood-rushes (Luzula multiflora L. sylvatica)

Tags: Archaeological survey, bogland, Cashelenny, quaking bog, Stone circle, 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)

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