Browse Items (13 total)
- Tags: fauna
"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"
"Unconcernedly the Easter sunshine poured down on that scene of desertion and decay"
Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, building, decay, easter, fauna, flora, isolation, lichen, monastery, moss, overgrown, ruins, Saints Island, twentieth century, weeds
"Low rocks, a few weasels, lake"
"Wild and gloomy loneliness"
"Sure it's an aigle!"
Tags: birdlife, boating, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, eggs, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, memoir, nineteenth century, poaching, upper lake
Eagle's eggs
Tags: birdlife, dryness, eagle, eggs, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, memoir, nesting, nineteenth century, poaching, upper lake
"If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked"
The salmon of Lough Derg
"Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg"
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)