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Online Atlas of the British and Irish flora Biological Records Centre Information organised under :- Photos, Maps, Habitats, Life Form, Distribution, Conservation Status, Other Accounts, References. Orchids of France Pierre Delforge, 2000 .
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology library, Ballybane: 2007: Grace Weir Individual counters affixed to the interior walls of the library showed the distances of each of the planets to the library, as they moved continually in real time. [17] Lord Dunkellin: Eyre Square: 1873: John Henry Foley: Destroyed in 1922 [18] Pádraic Ó Conaire: Eyre ...
Cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus: a relict plant of the Ice Age. Ice-sheets covered most of Ireland until 13,000 years ago when the Holocene began. The majority of Ireland's flora and fauna has only returned as the ice sheets retreated and sea level rose accompanied by post-glacial rebound when 10,000 years ago the climate began to warm.
Joyce Country highlighted in green, and Connemara highlighted in red. Joyce Country (Irish: Dúiche Sheoighe) is a cultural region in counties Galway and Mayo in Ireland.It is sometimes called Partry, after the former tribal territory of the Partraige, which it largely matches. [1]
The house at Moore Hall was designed by John Roberts, an architect from Waterford who also designed Tyrone House in County Galway in a similar style. It was built between 1792 and 1796, [10] and was occupied by various members of the extended Moore family until the turn of the 20th century.
The cross was kept at Cong Abbey in County Mayo until 1839 when it was given to the Royal Irish Academy and then the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 2010, the cross was returned to County Mayo to be displayed at the Museum of Country Life for one year.
Mulranny lies on the 42 km Great Western Greenway, which runs between Westport and Achill. [5] In 2011, it was the winner of a 'European Destinations of Excellence' award.
Delphi Lodge from the jetty on Fin Lough. Delphi (/ ˈ d ɛ l f aɪ / [1] or / ˈ d ɛ l f i /; Greek: Δελφοί, ) [2] is a locality in County Mayo, Ireland.Its English name was coined by the Marquis of Sligo, who built a famous hunting lodge there.