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• Caithness
  ...etches over 1,540 square miles of Caithness and Sutherland, a vast blanket bog moorland marked by countless peat lakes. ...bog known as the [[Flow Country]] which is the largest expanse of blanket bog in Europe, extending into [[Sutherland]]. This is divided up along the ''st
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• County Cork
  ...ats found in the county. Important habitats in the uplands include blanket bog, heath, glacial lakes and upland grasslands. Cork has the 13th highest [[co Like many parts of Munster, Cork has rich fertile agricultural land and many bog and peatlands. Cork consists of approximately 182,860 acres of peatlands wh
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• County Mayo
  ...oor subsoils and is covered with large areas of extensive Atlantic blanket bog, whereas the south is largely a limestone landscape. Agricultural land is ...yo, where the ground cover was fragile, thin soils washed away and blanket bog covered the land farmed by the Neolithic people.
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• Flow Country
  ...of [[Caithness]] and [[Sutherland]]. It is the largest expanse of blanket bog in Britain and Europe, and covers about 1,500 square miles. :"This largely unspoilt landscape has thousands of hectares of ancient blanket peat land, making this perhaps the most important area of its type in the n
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• Dartmoor
  ...grass (''Eriophorum'' species), sedges (''Carex'' and ''Rhynchospora''), ''Bog Asphodel'' and ''Common Tormentil'', with ''Sphagnum'' thriving in the wett
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• Forest of Bowland
  ...ientific Interest" for its important areas of heather moorland and blanket bog. The AONB extends beyond Bowland itself into adjoining areas including par
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• Plynlimon
  ...t habitats and species, such as dry and wet dwarf-shrub heathland, blanket bog, unimproved acid grassland and a number of oligotrophic lakes. Agricultural
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• Ireland
  ...s the middle of the island to be poorly drained and with vast stretches of bog. The [[River Shannon]] is the major river, draining the centre of the isla ...008-11-09}}</ref> This partial ring of "hard rock" geology is covered by a blanket of Carboniferous limestone over the centre of the country, giving rise to a
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• Skiddaw
  ...kiddaw drains into Skiddaw Forest, much of the water reaching Candleseaves Bog. This marsh is the source of both the Dash Beck flowing north-west to Basse ...rally rounded and convex, looking from a distance as though a thick velvet blanket has been draped over a supporting frame. On the ridges the general terrain
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• Hexhamshire
  The area has one of the largest expanses of blanket bog and heathland in northern England. Acid bogs occur in the vicinity of the n ...ecies, including bog orchid, ''Hammarbya paludosa'', which is found on the blanket peat, and forked spleenwort, ''Asplenium septentrionale'', whose presence a
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• Cuilcagh
  ...res, with well-developed pool, hummock and lawn features, acid flushes and bog bursts. The bog vegetation is characterised by luxuriant Sphagnum mosses but over most of t
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• Republic of Ireland
  ...Forestry in Ireland|accessdate=15 June 2011}}</ref> The growth of blanket bog and the extensive clearing of woodland to facilitate farming are believed t
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• Wicklow Mountains
  The dominant habitat of the uplands consists of blanket bog, heath and upland grassland. The uplands support a number of threatened bir ...and its surroundings. The Wicklow Mountains have a thin layer of [[blanket bog]] which cannot hold great quantities of water, so in season many of its riv
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• Boho
  ...imestone karst substrata combined with fen meadow, upland heath and acidic bog. ...ment found about Twenty-one Feet below the Surface of the Peat in the Coal-bog near Boho, Co. Fermanagh |year=1880 |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish
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• Slieve Gallion
  To the west, the landscape consists of blanket bog and coniferous forest;<ref name="Slieve Gallion Landscape"/> most of the tr
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• Craven
  ...ere tree suppression combined with the heavier rainfall results in blanket bog up to 6 feet thick. The erosion of peat ca 2010 still exposes stumps of anc
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• Schiehallion
  ...n are rich in botanical life, with heathers, mosses and blaeberry. Blanket bog and heather moorland change colour with the seasons. The limestone pavement
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• Peak District
  ...gritstone and shale of the Dark Peak supports heather moorland and blanket bog environments, with rough sheep pasture and grouse shooting being the main l
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• Abergwesyn Common
  .../nature-and-wildlife/projects/view-page/item702756/ "Bringing Abergwesyn's bog back to life" at nationaltrust.org.uk]</ref>
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• Galloway Hills
  ...The explanation for this is that the Silver Flowe is a floating or blanket bog and is consequently flat in nature. The Silver Flowe is a National Nature Reserve with a Blanket bog of international importance. It is part of the Merrick Kells Biosphere Rese
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