David Cabot - Collins New Naturalist Library

From F.H.A. Aalen, K. Whelan & M. Stout (eds) (1997) Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape. Cork University Press.

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From F.H.A. Aalen, K. Whelan & M. Stout (eds) (1997) Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape. Cork University Press.

Copyright Copyright Dedication List of Plates Editors’ Preface Author’s Foreword 1 Naturalists and their Works 2 Biological History 3 Mountains and Uplands 4 Peatlands 5 Lakes and Rivers 6 The Burren and Turloughs 7 Broadleaved Woodlands 8 Farmland 9 The Coastline 10 Islands 11 The Sea 12 Conservation of Nature Picture Section Appendices Bibliography Acknowledgements Keep Reading About the Publisher

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First published 1999

© David Cabot 1999

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Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2018 ISBN: 9780007400423

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Dedication Dedication List of Plates Editors’ Preface Author’s Foreword 1 Naturalists and their Works 2 Biological History 3 Mountains and Uplands 4 Peatlands 5 Lakes and Rivers 6 The Burren and Turloughs 7 Broadleaved Woodlands 8 Farmland 9 The Coastline 10 Islands 11 The Sea 12 Conservation of Nature Picture Section Appendices Bibliography Acknowledgements Keep Reading About the Publisher

For my parents, Isabel & Sid.

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Copyright Copyright Copyright Dedication List of Plates Editors’ Preface Author’s Foreword 1 Naturalists and their Works 2 Biological History 3 Mountains and Uplands 4 Peatlands 5 Lakes and Rivers 6 The Burren and Turloughs 7 Broadleaved Woodlands 8 Farmland 9 The Coastline 10 Islands 11 The Sea 12 Conservation of Nature Picture Section Appendices Bibliography Acknowledgements Keep Reading About the Publisher William Collins An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF WilliamCollinsBooks.com This eBook edition published by William Collins in 2018 First published 1999 © David Cabot 1999 © in all photographs David Cabot unless otherwise stated. The author asserts his moral rights to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this eBook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins Publishers. HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication . Source ISBN 9780002200806 Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2018 ISBN: 9780007400423 Version: 2018-11-23

Dedication Dedication Dedication List of Plates Editors’ Preface Author’s Foreword 1 Naturalists and their Works 2 Biological History 3 Mountains and Uplands 4 Peatlands 5 Lakes and Rivers 6 The Burren and Turloughs 7 Broadleaved Woodlands 8 Farmland 9 The Coastline 10 Islands 11 The Sea 12 Conservation of Nature Picture Section Appendices Bibliography Acknowledgements Keep Reading About the Publisher For my parents, Isabel & Sid.

List of Plates

Editors’ Preface

Author’s Foreword

1 Naturalists and their Works

2 Biological History

3 Mountains and Uplands

4 Peatlands

5 Lakes and Rivers

6 The Burren and Turloughs

7 Broadleaved Woodlands

8 Farmland

9 The Coastline

10 Islands

11 The Sea

12 Conservation of Nature

Picture Section

Appendices

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Keep Reading

About the Publisher

List of Plates

Plate 1

Remains of a sixth century monastery, including a later twelfth century round tower, Devenish Island, Lower Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh

Crucifixion slab, early Christian hermitage, Duvillaun More, Co. Mayo

Mweelrea Mountain with Killary Harbour and Maumturk Mountains in the distance

Red deer stag and hind

Plate 2

Part of the northeast facing cliffs, Benbulbin mountain range, Co. Sligo

Lowland blanket bog with characteristic surface pools. Glenamoy, Co. Mayo

Bank of hand cut blanket bog, Co. Galway

Irish heath in April. Bellacragher Bay, Co. Mayo

Plate 3

Colony of naturalised pitcher plants on Derrychashel raised bog, Co. Westmeath

The River Suck below Ballinasloe before joining the River Shannon

Lough Neagh, the largest lake in Ireland. A view to the southwest, overlooking Toome and the eel traps

The otter is more widespread and abundant in Ireland than in any other European country

Plate 4

A Connemara river in flood, acidic in nature, rich in oxygen, and conduit for sea trout from the nearby sea to freshwater lakes

Mullagh More with slumped beds of carboniferous limestone. The tree in the foreground would hardly support a hanging man

Spring gentians, one of the glories of the Burren, Co. Clare

Rahasane Turlough, Co. Galway, one of Ireland’s most celebrated wintering wildfowl wetlands

Plate 5

Glen Inchiquin, Co. Kerry, with Lough Inchiquin and Uragh Wood in the distance

Willow and alder carr woodland, near Newport, Co. Mayo

Uragh Wood. Co. Kerry – an ancient sessile oak woodland

Silver birch woodland, Killadangan, near Westport, Co. Mayo

Plate 6

Abandoned farmland in west Mayo. The ‘fossilised’ lazy beds or old potato ridges testify to the former importance of these lands

Greenland white-fronted geese, formerly confined to raised and blanket boglands but now found principally on improved grasslands as here on the North Slob, Co. Wexford, their most important habitat in Ireland

A mosaic of farmland with intact hedgerow systems, Co. Fermanagh