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A Late-Glacial Flora in Ireland Co. Monaghan, Ireland

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IN 1715 the molar teeth and other remains of a mammoth were discovered to the east of Belturbet, Co. Cavan1. In 1940 a site in the townland of Drumurcher, Co. Monaghan, where near a mill there was a small alluvial flat, was tentatively identified as the place of the original find.

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  1. Nevile, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, 29 (1715).

  2. Mahr, A., Proc. Prehist. Soc, Paper 11 (1937).

  3. Jessen, K., and Farrington, A., Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., B, 44 (1938).

  4. Farrington, A., Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., B, 42 (1934).

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MITCHELL, G. A Late-Glacial Flora in Ireland Co. Monaghan, Ireland. Nature 149, 502 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149502a0

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