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Map of Ulster with "Escheated" Counties, 1609

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This is a map of the six "escheated" counties of Ulster.

Tags: British Library, colonialism, John Norden, Map, plantation, politics, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

Map of the British Isles f. D1v

This is a map of the British Isles. It is a wood cut and is by the Venetian Pietro Coppo.

Tags: cartography, engraving, Ireland, islands, Map, Pietro Coppo, purgatory, sixteenth century, woodcut

Lough Ultan Crannog Archaeological Survey

An apparently natural island 29m × 15m in Lough Ultan appears to have some evidence of structural remains on its NNW side.

The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities…

Tags: Archaeological survey, crannog, island, lake, Lough Ultan, vicinity

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)

Lough Nageage Crannog Archaeological Survey

Dimensions 26m NE-SW, 11m NW-SE. An oval island in Lough Nageage apparently artificially constructed of stones although possibly on a natural rock base. At the N end is a stone wall, .8m high and 1.3m wide, partially under water. Bisecting the island…

Tags: Archaeological survey, crannog, lake, Lough Nageage, vicinity

Lough Hill Bog Natural Heritage Area

A description of the Lough Hill Bog Natural Heritage Area (NHA)

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.

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