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Bog of Allen - Croghan Hill, Offaly, in the distance The Bog of Allen ( Irish : Móin Alúine ) is a large raised bog in the centre of Ireland between the rivers Liffey and Shannon . The bog's 958 square kilometres (370 square miles) stretch into counties Offaly , Meath , Kildare , Laois , and Westmeath . [ 1 ]
Old Croghan Man (Seanfhear Chruacháin in Irish) is a well-preserved Irish Iron Age bog body found in June 2003. The remains are named after Croghan Hill, north of Daingean, County Offaly, near where the body was found. The find is on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
This is a list of bog bodies grouped by location of discovery. Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogs. The bodies have been most commonly found in the Northern European countries of Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Tollund Man, Denmark, 4th century BC Gallagh Man, Ireland, c. 470–120 BC. A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BC and the Second World War. [1]
The bog has a wide variety of rare flora, and hosts a number of important or threatened European fauna endemic to blanket bogs. Actively growing bog is a priority EU habitat. [4] In 1998 the insect species, Psallus confusus, was recorded at Clochar na gCon as a new species in Ireland along with the first record since 1898 of Salda morio.
Luhasoo bog in Estonia.The mire has tussocks of heather, and is being colonised by pine trees.. This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1]
The Corlea Trackway, seemingly constructed in a single year, has suggested comparisons with the Irish language tale Tochmarc Étaíne (The Wooing of Étaín), where King Eochu Airem sets Midir tasks such as planting a forest and building a road across a bog where none had ever been before at a place called Móin Lámraige.
Scragh Bog was legally protected as a national nature reserve by the Irish government in 1992. [1] A large area of the bog was bought by the Irish Peatland Conservation Council with funding from the Dutch Foundation for the Conservation of Irish Bogs in 1987. [2] It was later handed over to the Irish state to be managed as a nature reserve. [3]