Qualla: Carrownagappul Bog https://qualla.com/carrownagappul-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/9/b/carrownagappul-bog-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Carrownagappul Bog https://qualla.com/carrownagappul-bog Carrownagappul Bog: Introduction https://qualla.com/carrownagappul-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name means quarter of the horses. Ceathru na gCapall - a ceathru being an old land division, capall the Irish for horse. No one is quite sure why this 486-hectare stretch of raised bog in east County Galway carries that name. Patrick Weston Joyce, the great Victorian collector of Irish placenames, recorded it without explanation in 1913, and the modern placenames office has nothing more to add. What we do know is what the bog itself is doing: about 7,000 to 10,000 years old, formed in marshy hollows after the last glaciers retreated, sitting on a bed of Lower Carboniferous limestone, and growing again after decades of cutting and drainage that almost killed it.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/b/carrownagappul-bog-wp/gc9b-carrownagappul-bog-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carrownagappul Bog: The Anatomy of a Western Raised Bog https://qualla.com/carrownagappul-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Carrownagappul is one of Ireland's classic raised bogs, the western variant - intermediate between the great domed mires of the midlands and the rolling blanket bogs of Connemara. The 2012 ecological survey described it as roughly triangular, fragmented by old tracks across the h...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/b/carrownagappul-bog-wp/gc9b-carrownagappul-bog-the-anatomy-of-a-western-raised-bog.mp3 0:06 2 full Carrownagappul Bog: Patch's Garden https://qualla.com/carrownagappul-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The mineral island has a name and a story. In the late 1800s, a local man called Patch Cronin built a smallholding there, on what amounted to an island farm completely surrounded by deep peat. The remains of his garden survive. When the restoration team designed their network of ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/b/carrownagappul-bog-wp/gc9b-carrownagappul-bog-patchs-garden.mp3 0:06 3 full Carrownagappul Bog: The Living Bog https://qualla.com/carrownagappul-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the late twentieth century, Irish raised bogs were in deep trouble. Turf-cutting, drainage and grazing had pushed most sites into what conservation reports call bad and deteriorating condition. Carrownagappul was no exception. In 1998 it was proposed as a Natura 2000 site unde...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/b/carrownagappul-bog-wp/gc9b-carrownagappul-bog-the-living-bog.mp3 0:06 4 full Carrownagappul Bog: Grouse and Marsh Fritillaries https://qualla.com/carrownagappul-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wet bog is a specialised home, and specialised tenants live in it. Carrownagappul holds a population of Irish red grouse, the Red-List subspecies of the bird whose distinctive call announces winter dawns across the heather. The Mountbellew-Moylough Game Preservation Association m...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/b/carrownagappul-bog-wp/gc9b-carrownagappul-bog-grouse-and-marsh-fritillaries.mp3 0:06 5 full Carrownagappul Bog: The Carbon Underneath https://qualla.com/carrownagappul-bog/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is one more thing the bog does, quietly. Over the timeline of the Living Bog restoration project, Carrownagappul's carbon dioxide emissions fell by an estimated 426 tonnes - about 32 percent. Across all the project sites, an extra 100 tonnes of carbon is being sequestered e...

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