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Research - Current
Research - Recently Completed (TIMECHS, Mooghaun, Mayo (Céide Fields), Late-glacial)
LOGO ( Taxus, Eriocaulon, Plantago lanceolata, Osmunda)

Photographs and Figs relating to Research – Current

Late-glacial and Holocene climate change, western Ireland (PRTLI-3)

Coring in An Loch Gealán, Mullach Mór, SE Burren
(19.06.04, MO'C

Coring in the turlough, An Loch Gealáin, SE Burren
(Mullach Mór is in background; 19.06.04; MO'C)

Holocene vegetation and land-use history at Emlagh Bog, Co. Meath, E. Ireland

Map showing location of Emlagh Bog, Co. Meath.

Tephra shards (fine volcanic ash) from depth 0-5 cm, core EML I, Emlagh Bog, Co. Meath.

Removing monolith for palaeoecological investigations at Emlagh Bog, nr. Kells, Co. Meath. Left to right: Karen Molloy, Ciarán McCausland, Conor Newman, Maeve Moriarty (NUIG), Mark Hennessy (TCD), and Gerald Mills (UCD) (29.09.01, MO’C).

Long-term environmental change in the Lower Corrib basin and its catchment

Map showing the study area, i.e. the Lower Corrib basin.

Coring (D. Sexton and A. Bingham) to establish lithology in the eastern Lower Corrib basin (24.06.03, MO’C).

View to east of the Lower Corrib basin from Tonabrocky, north of Galway city. The flat, low-lying areas contain thick marls and peats (at least 14 m deep in parts). These sediments, the subject of investigations in this project, are expected to provide a record of post-glacial change, including lake-level fluctuation (13.10.02, MO’C).

Marginal landscapes: upland settlement, Beara Peninsula, SW Cork (incl. PAN, EU network)

Map of Iveragh and Beara peninsula, SW Ireland.

Pre-bog wall under excavation, Barrees, Beara peninsula (15.8.02, MO’C).

Pre-bog wall, sectional view from an archaeological excavation (Aug. ’02, WO’B).

Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions based on analysis of wood and charcoal from archaeological contexts

Sampling (M. Dillon and A. Bingham) at Meelick Point, Upper Shannon Estuary, Co. Clare
(10.12.03, MO'C)

Sunset at Meelick Point, Upper Shannon Estuary, Co. Clare
(10.12.03, MO'C)

Photographs and Figs relating to Research – recently completed

TIMECHS: Timing and mechanisms of Holocene climate change in NW Europe (EU, 4th FP (2), Climate and Environment; Contract No. ENV4-CT97-0557; 1998-2000)

Map of Ireland showing location of Aran Islands including Inis Oírr.

Map of Aran Islands showing main archaeological features, contours, etc.

Aerial view of Inis Oírr, including An Loch Mór. Note the expanses of bare limestone and settlement on the eastern, sheltered part of the island. Inis Meáin is in the distant horizon (Feb. ’98, MO’C).

Photograph of erratics (metamorphic and igneous rocks from Connemara) displayed on garden wall, An Baile Thiar, Inis Oírr (2.6.99, MO’C).

Photograph of An Loch Mór. View to south, including species-rich meadow with Campanula rotundifolia in the foreground (8.8.99, MO’C).

Coring in An Loch Mór (core MOR2, 15.8.1996, NUIG and University of Kiel) and photo of core MOR1 taken on core retrieval in the field (15.8.1996).

Composite pollen diagram, An Loch Mór (pollen analyst: K. Molloy).

Photograph of TIMECHS participants and friends at the guesthouse of B. & P. Póil (9.12.00, MO’C).

South-east Clare, including Mooghaun

Map of south-east Clare showing megalithic tomb distribution, main water bodies, etc., and detailed map of Mooghaun area showing coring locations.

Cover of Discovery Programme Report 2 (1995) with aerial photograph of Mooghaun trivallate ringfort (area enclosed: 12 ha).

View to the east of Mooghaun Lough and basin showing archaeological features and location of coring.

Pollen diagram from Mooghaun Lough (mid to late Holocene, including late Bronze Age Landnam).

Neolithic: Céide Fields and Garrynagran

Map of Ireland showing sites with detailed pollen/palaeoecological data.

Map of Céide Fields showing archaeological features and location of pollen profiles.

Behy tomb, Céide Fields; view to west along blanket bog-covered N. Mayo coast (July ’87, MO’C).

Neolithic stone walls beneath peat at Céide Fields (near pollen profile BHY III; 15.06.96, MO’C).

Part of pre-bog stone wall system uncovered with Visitor Centre in the background (19.09.93, MO’C).

Glenulra basin where the main core (GLU IV) was taken (view to west with Visitor Centre in the distance; Neolithic field system, hidden beneath peat, covers the hillside on LHS; 04.09.93, MO’C).

Probing deep peat (6m) in Glenulra basin (K. Molloy, N. Dunne and E. Jennings; 08.11.93, MO’C).

Percentage pollen diagram (mid-Holocene) from Céide Fields, N. Mayo. Percentages are based on terrestrial pollen, i.e. bog taxa are excluded (after O’Connell and Molloy 2001).

Bog expanse at Garrynagran which, in this part, has been prepared for afforestation or afforested. It lies 16km to the south of the Visitor Centre, Céide Fields. Left to right: K. Molloy, E. Jennings, who investigated the site, and J. Daniell, on a pine trunk. Nephin Mór lies, to the west, in the distance (15.06.96, MO’C).

Late-glacial environmental change

Map of Ireland showing main Late-glacial sites.

Irish first-day stamp issue (11.10.99) showing Giant Irish Deer ( Megaloceros megaloceros) which suffered widespread extinction at the transition Allerød/Younger Dryas (c. 12 500 cal. BP).

Photograph of core from Lurga, E. Burren showing typical stratigraphic features of Late-glacial sediments from calcareous sites in Ireland (Sept., ’90, MO’C).

Photograph taken at the end of coring Late-glacial sediments, using a Livingstone corer, at Tory Hill, Co. Limerick. Left to right: Peter Readman (Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin), Valérie Andrieu and Chun Chang Huang (25.6.92, MO’C).

View to the SE of the basin at Tory Hill, Co. Limerick. The coring location of the Late-glacial core, TRY II, is indicated (25.6.92, MO’C).

Photographs and illustration relating to the LOGO

Eriocaulon aquaticum growing in L. Gowlanagower, an oligotrophic lake on Inishbofin, W. Ireland (Aug. 1986, MO’C).

Illustration showing part of a frond of Osmunda regalis, the royal fern. The sori (spore producing parts) are borne on modified pinnules near the apex.

Osmunda regalis, the royal fern, in a carr (woodland on peat) which, together wet habitats associated with drains and stream margins, is a favoured habitat for this large (up to 160 cm tall), conspicuous fern (Photo: J. Conaghan).

Plantago lanceolata (ribwort plantain) in a recently seeded meadow in Drimmeen Td., south of Clifden, Connemara (11.05.90, MO’C).

Taxus baccata in a native yew wood, Muckross peninsula, Killarney (9.6.92, MO’C).

Pollen-producing yew ( Taxus baccata) (1.4.83, MO’C). Copious pollen is produced in cores consisting of 6-14 scales and each with 5-9 pollen sacs. Yew is dioecious.

Fertile yew ( Taxus baccata) with red fleshy arils (cups) which partially enclose a fruit with a hard, and highly poisonous, shell (28.10.79, MO’C).

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