Qualla: Ardgraigue Bog https://qualla.com/ardgraigue-bog en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/ardgraigue-bog-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ardgraigue Bog https://qualla.com/ardgraigue-bog Ardgraigue Bog: Introduction https://qualla.com/ardgraigue-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk onto an active raised bog and the ground gives a little under your boots. This is not a metaphor. The surface is a living thing—a quaking platform of Sphagnum moss layered over centuries of its own dead, holding rainwater like a saturated sponge raised slightly above the surrounding land. Ardgraigue Bog, 177.11 hectares in the townlands of Ardgraigue, Kilquain, Woodfield, and Lissaniska, lies three kilometres north-east of Killimor in east County Galway. The Irish name is An Ardghráig—'the high hamlet,' or possibly 'the high cattlesteading.' Beneath your feet, the peat goes down eight or ten metres in places. Above your feet, on a still day, the rasp of beak-sedge against your trouser leg is the only sound for a kilometre.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/ardgraigue-bog-wp/gc6n-ardgraigue-bog-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ardgraigue Bog: What Lives on the Quaking Surface https://qualla.com/ardgraigue-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Six species of Sphagnum—fuscum, papillosum, imbricatum, capillifolium, subnitens, tenellum—make the bog's living skin. They share it with white and brown beak-sedge, carnation sedge, bog asphodel that turns the surface yellow in late summer, deergrass, and sundews whose sticky te...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/ardgraigue-bog-wp/gc6n-ardgraigue-bog-what-lives-on-the-quaking-surface.mp3 0:06 2 full Ardgraigue Bog: Ireland's Bog Inheritance https://qualla.com/ardgraigue-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ireland once carried 310,000 hectares of raised bog—the slightly domed peatlands of the central plain, distinct from the blanket bogs of the wetter west. By 1990, when the Cross report on Ireland's raised bogs was published, surveys had found that the country contained no complet...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/ardgraigue-bog-wp/gc6n-ardgraigue-bog-irelands-bog-inheritance.mp3 0:06 3 full Ardgraigue Bog: The Conservation Designation https://qualla.com/ardgraigue-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ardgraigue Bog was named on the Irish Peatland Conservation Council's 1987 priority list. In 2003 it was proposed as a Natura 2000 Site of Community Importance under the European Habitats Directive. In 2002 it received candidate Special Area of Conservation status. In 2004 it app...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/ardgraigue-bog-wp/gc6n-ardgraigue-bog-the-conservation-designation.mp3 0:06 4 full Ardgraigue Bog: The Cutting That Did Not Stop https://qualla.com/ardgraigue-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Designation did not end the harm. Domestic mechanised peat extraction has continued around the margins of the high bog for decades, with the cutover areas reclaimed for agricultural use to the north. The state introduced a compensation scheme: turbary-rights holders could accept ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/ardgraigue-bog-wp/gc6n-ardgraigue-bog-the-cutting-that-did-not-stop.mp3 0:06 5 full Ardgraigue Bog: The Court of Justice and the Carbon Sink https://qualla.com/ardgraigue-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. In March 2024, after a 2011 letter of formal notice and a 2022 reasoned opinion, the European Commission referred Ireland to the Court of Justice of the European Union for insufficient progress on protecting raised and blanket bogs from peat-cutting. The case (INFR(2010)2161) is ...

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