Project Areas Overview

These sites are located in the Irish midland counties of Roscommon, Offaly, Kildare and Westmeath. The sites were selected in order to represent the geographic spread of raised bogs in the midlands and also, at some of the sites, to allow for the FarmPEAT Project to support already completed restoration work and research conducted on the high bogs themselves. In addition, it was important to us when selecting the sites to choose raised bog sites that have a significant proportion of agricultural land surrounding them.

Some of the sites are protected under national (e.g Cloncrow (New Forest) Bog NHA) and international legislation (e.g. Clara Bog Special Area of Conservation). We focused on designated sites for two main reasons:

1.  To reward farmers that have previously been impacted by designation of lands, and

2. To allow the project to benefit from baseline ecological and hydrological information available for these sites.

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