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Lough Hill Bog Natural Heritage Area

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

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 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 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

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

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

Meenagarranroe Bog Natural Heritage Area

A description of the Meenagarranroe Bog Natural Heritage Area (NHA)

Meenanellison Townland

Meenanellison is in the Electoral Division of Templecarn, in Civil Parish of Templecarn, in the Barony of Tirhugh, in the County of Donegal

The Irish name for Meenanellison is Mín Niallasáin

Meenanellison is on Logainm.ie:…

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, Meenanellison Townland, Parish of Templecarne, townland

Nautical Chart Of Western Europe, Ca. 1400-1425

This chart, from an atlas by an unknown chartmaker probably working in Venice, shows an awareness of most of the eastern and southern coastlines of the British Isles stemming from voyages of Venetian galleys to the area since 1300.

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Ireland, Map, purgatory

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

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