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The Carrownagappul Bog SAC includes 28.1 hectares of active raised bog. [5] Of this active raised bog, only 4.12 hectares is considered of high quality and this included 2.74 hectares of central ecotope and 1.38 hectares of active flushes. [12] It is described as notably wet, and includes areas of quaking bog. [4]
The raised bog restoration plan (version 2) for Ardgraigue Bog SAC was published in March 2023. It describes the restoration measures required to achieve the site-specific conservation objectives for the site. The hydrological p;rocesses at the site are key to restoration of both the high bog and the cutover areas.
English Nature worked on a management plan for the mosses, which was published in 1993 as the Synopsis Management Plan. It contained eleven objectives, designed to protect the area [55] and ultimately to re-establish it as a raised bog. There has been an extensive programme to clear the birch scrub, which has often been dumped into the drains ...
An investigation into peat-cutting on SAC sites carried out in 2022 showed that this activity occurred to various levels at the active raised bog at Cloonchambers Bog SAC between 2012 and 2021. In 2012, 16 plots were cut, increasing to 27 plots in 2019 and decreasing to 22 plots cut in 2021.
"Mouds Bog is significant in terms of its high bog area and geographical location as it is at the eastern extreme of the range of raised bogs in Ireland. It is a site of considerable conservation significance comprising a large raised bog, a rare habitat in the E.U. and one that is becoming increasingly scarce and under threat in Ireland.
The Ballynafagh Bog also includes areas of degraded raised bogs capable of regeneration – these are sections of the raised bog where the hydrology of the system has been negatively impacted by factors such as drainage, peat-cutting or other land use activities, but for which regeneration of this ecosystem is still possible. [4]
Flanders Moss (Scottish Gaelic: A’ Mhòine Fhlànrasach) [3] is an area of raised bog lying in the Carse of Forth in west Stirlingshire, Scotland. The villages of Thornhill and Port of Menteith lie to the north with the villages of Kippen and Buchlyvie lying to the south. The moss is a National Nature Reserve, managed by NatureScot. Formed on ...
Indicator species of midland raised bogs such as are present, though they are not as common as in raised bogs further east in the country. Species occurring at this raised bog habitat such as Bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) and the bog moss Sphagnum magellanicum, but in fewer numbers in this western bog than is typical in midlands raised bogs.