File 2 - Vegetation and heather in Connemara

1 folder (c. 70 pp)

File of correspondence and enclosed reading relating to heather in Connemara.

Letter from Julian Reynolds of the Zoology Department at Trinity College to Tim (1985) enclosing a list of bogland sites highlighted by the National Peatlands Conservation Committee;

Letter from Maura [Scannell] mentioning a specimen of heather near Cloonagat Lough that won the gold medal at Bundesgartenschau in Berlin in 1985, it was given the name Maura. A traced map outlining this area, and other surrounding areas where Erica MacKaiana was collected follows, and a photocopy of the diploma awarded with the medal (1990);

Fax to Tim from Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington (3 October 1994) enclosing work on E MacKaiana from Lieke Van Doorslaer;

Letter to Tim from Michael Archer enclosing a photocopied page from 'The Origins of Heathers' by Fred Chapple with a theory on how the mediterranean heath came to Ireland. (1997);

Letter to Tim from Anne-Marie McKee of the Department of Botany at UCG with a timetable relating to the Summer Field Meeting of the Mires Research Group in Connemara and Mayo (1997);

Several photocopied articles:

'Notes on Four Irish Heaths: Part 1' Irish Naturalists Journal by D A Webb, (1954);

'Erica Ciliaris L in Ireland' from Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles by D A Webb (1966);

'Further Notes on Erica Ciliarisin Ireland' by David McClintock (1968);

'Historical Records of the Irish Ericaceae - additional notes on Arbutus Unedo, Daboecia Cantabrica, Erica Erigene, E. MacKaiana and Ledum Palustre' by E Charles Nelson (1982);

'Erica Erigene R. Ross - the Mediterranean Heath in Ireland' from Irish Naturalists Journal by Brian Morley and Mary J P Scannell (1972);

'Erica MacKaiana Bab. in Irish Localities and other plants of interest' from Irish Naturalists Journal, Mary J P Scannell and David McClintock (1974);

'Craiggamore and Craiggabeg in West Galway' from Irish Naturalists Journal, M J P Scannell (1975);

'Studies in Erica MacKaiana Bab. 1: Distribution in Connemara, Ireland' from Irish Naturalists Journal, E Charles Nelson, (1981);

'The Unique Flora of Connemara' from The Living Countryside, E C Nelson, (1982);

'Studies in Erica MacKaiana Bab. II: Distribution in Northern Spain' by E Charles Nelson and Maria Isabel Fraga (1983);

'Heathers in Ireland' from Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, E Charles Nelson, 1989;

'Scraw (Schwingmoore) plant communities at Loch an Chorcail, Carna, Co. Galway' by N D Lockhard, M O'Connell, M Sheehy Skeffington and L Van Doorslaer (1989);

Two photocopied pages on Connemara Plants, source not identified.

Two copies of a map showing the distribution of Erica MacKaiana Bab near Roundstone, origin of map unidentified.

Brochure on the Bog of Allen, and one on a Conference to explore the long term sustainability of Ireland's uplands (1995).

Three press cuttings between 1989 and 2012 from the Irish Times on rare heather, and the bogs and carbon dioxide.

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