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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.
A restoration plan for Bellanagare Bog SAC was published in 2023 by the National ... Conservation and Management of Raised Bogs in Ireland. 14th International ...
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 ...
Cloonchambers Bog SAC comprises two elongated peat-filled basins, separated by grassy, fen vegetation. This strip of vegetation occurs at locations where the thinner peat mixes with mineral soil. The bog includes 7.66 hectares of active raised bog, 21.09 hectares of degraded raised bog and 0.3638 hectares of Rhynchosporion vegetation. [7]
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 ...
The Ballynafagh Bog SAC is located close to Prosperous, in the townlands of Ballynafagh, Coolree (E.D. Robertstown) and Downings North, County Kildare.Schedule 1 of the Statutory Instrument for this site (S.I. No. 141/2017) identifies it as encompassing an area of 155.23 hectares.
"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.