Abstract
ACCORDING to reports published in 1814 by the Bog Commissioners,Ireland possesses 3,028,000 acres of “peat bog,” of which 1,648,000 acres form “available” or so-called “red” bog land about 1,380,000 acres form “mountain peat soil” The. “red bog” is mainly confined to the great central plain of the island, and the “mountain bog” to the counties of Wicklow, Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry. As the accompanying outline bog map (Fig. 1) shows, there are few portions of the island destitute of bog.
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RYAN, H. The Irish Peat Industries 1 . Nature 76, 528–530 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076528a0
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