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Chris Corlett

Chris Corlett

Archaeologist with the National Monuments Service; author, photographer, and expert in Irish medieval and prehistoric heritage

Jun 14, 2026

6:58
You can see the sphagnum moss everywhere and there's, there's some new planting here, Richard.
7:04
These are a mixture of rowan and alder trees, and alder does really well in boggy, wet soil, whereas rowan is a kind of mountain...
7:14
It's known as the mountain ash, and it'll do very well in quite severe conditions of wind and poor soils.
7:22
These trees have been planted here along the, the river bank because first of all, they're down in a dip and they're kind of sheltered from the wind, but secondly, there are some existing old trees along the river and they act as a seed source, and it's a kind of a natural place to start.
7:42
And these will gradually produce their own seed and spread out into the surrounding bog.
7:47
That's what, what is hoped in order to try and restore the, uh, old woodland that used to occur up here.
11:20
Is there evidence of what kind of, um, animals they kept?
11:25
So along that green road that joins Lough Tay and Lough Dan, you get a series of little houses and then when you move up the slope, then you start to see more houses and smaller fields.

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