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A good year for Bog Cotton

Bog Cotton, Benwee Head, Co Mayo. Photo: Anthony Hickey
Bog Cotton, Benwee Head, Co Mayo. Photo: Anthony Hickey

I was standing in the middle of the bog that covers Benwee Head on the Children of Lir Loop Walk in one of the most scenic places in Mayo talking to a local man as he put in a late evening shift saving the turf.

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The lonely Orchid of Muingdoran

A Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) growing in wetlands at Muingdoran, Co Mayo. Photo: Anthony Hickey
A Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) growing in wetlands at Muingdoran, Co Mayo. Photo: Anthony Hickey

My travels took me to Muingdoran last week that isolated headland near Doolough. The meadow grass was high with some fields blanketed by buttercups.