Browse Items (8 total)

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: 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: Badger (Meles meles), biodiversity, Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), bogland, conifer plantations, Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Donegal Town, dragonflies, Golden Plover, Hen Harrier, Lichens (Cladonia portentosa and C. uncialis), Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), quaking bog, quaking lawns, Red Grouse, sheep grazing, sphagnum moss, vicinity, White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba)

Tags: afforestation, Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, cattle, Common Reed (Phragmites australis), conifer plantations, Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Donegal Town, dragonflies, drainage, Golden Plover, Hen Harrier, Intermediate Bladderwort (Utricularia intermedia), Irish Hare, Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Merlin, moss, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), quaking bog, red deer, sphagnum moss, vicinity, White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba)

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

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

Tags: barefoot, barrenness, bogland, hills, impressions, landscape, marsh, mountains, Pettigo, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, quaking bog, second-hand accounts