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List of Plates

Plate 1

Remains of a sixth century monastery, including a later twelfth century round tower, Devenish Island, Lower Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh

Crucifixion slab, early Christian hermitage, Duvillaun More, Co. Mayo

Mweelrea Mountain with Killary Harbour and Maumturk Mountains in the distance

Red deer stag and hind

Plate 2

Part of the northeast facing cliffs, Benbulbin mountain range, Co. Sligo

Lowland blanket bog with characteristic surface pools. Glenamoy, Co. Mayo

Bank of hand cut blanket bog, Co. Galway

Irish heath in April. Bellacragher Bay, Co. Mayo

Plate 3

Colony of naturalised pitcher plants on Derrychashel raised bog, Co. Westmeath

The River Suck below Ballinasloe before joining the River Shannon

Lough Neagh, the largest lake in Ireland. A view to the southwest, overlooking Toome and the eel traps

The otter is more widespread and abundant in Ireland than in any other European country

Plate 4

A Connemara river in flood, acidic in nature, rich in oxygen, and conduit for sea trout from the nearby sea to freshwater lakes

Mullagh More with slumped beds of carboniferous limestone. The tree in the foreground would hardly support a hanging man

Spring gentians, one of the glories of the Burren, Co. Clare

Rahasane Turlough, Co. Galway, one of Ireland’s most celebrated wintering wildfowl wetlands

Plate 5

Glen Inchiquin, Co. Kerry, with Lough Inchiquin and Uragh Wood in the distance

Willow and alder carr woodland, near Newport, Co. Mayo

Uragh Wood. Co. Kerry – an ancient sessile oak woodland

Silver birch woodland, Killadangan, near Westport, Co. Mayo

Plate 6

Abandoned farmland in west Mayo. The ‘fossilised’ lazy beds or old potato ridges testify to the former importance of these lands

Greenland white-fronted geese, formerly confined to raised and blanket boglands but now found principally on improved grasslands as here on the North Slob, Co. Wexford, their most important habitat in Ireland

A mosaic of farmland with intact hedgerow systems, Co. Fermanagh

Ballydavid Head, Co. Kerry, with Smerwick Harbour in the distance. One of the wildest stretches of coastline where the Atlantic waves have eaten back the rocks to create dramatic cliff scenery. A favoured habitat of the chough

Plate 7

Inner Galway Bay where long sea inlets penetrate the land providing excellent conditions for the cultivation of oysters

Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, where the horizontally bedded sandstone cliffs provide breeding sites for an abundance of seabirds

Banna Strand, Co. Kerry, with the Dingle peninsula in the distance. One of the many fine beaches and associated sand dune systems found along the Irish coastline

Great Blasket island, Co. Kerry. Occupied until 1952, the island is now an important haul-out area for Atlantic grey seals

Plate 8

Increasing numbers of barnacle geese are wintering in northwestern and western coastal areas

Tory Island, Co. Donegal, one of the remotest and bleakest of inhabited islands of Ireland. It is an important observation point for migratory seabirds

The gannet is the largest seabird in Ireland, and numbered some 24,700 breeding pairs in five colonies during 1984–8

The power of the Atlantic is slowly sculpting and forming new coastal landscapes along the western seaboard