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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 19h

Oak living on the ledge at the southern end of Conamara national park today. At 335m, anyone else see oaks at this elevation here?

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 3d

Great spot for exploring yesterday in sna mám toirce. So many beautiful lichens and mosses (would be worth a trip for a lichenologist). One of the highlights was this beautiful Douinia ovata which looks to have last been recorded in Conamara (beanna beola) in 1965

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David Smyth 🦇🌳 @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social · 3d

Traipsing the bogs of Conamara for Snapshot Galway!

Year 3 of camera trapping set up - hoping the wind and rain didn't knock them out

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 3d

as the old farmer out that way said to me 'its cheaper to buy them'. Not many a hill farmer you see growing the noble spud these days

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 4d

Coill seanna gharráin inniu. Áit fíor speisialta @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social

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Kevin Lally @kevinlally32.bsky.social · 4d

Catherine Connolly leading the poll to be our next president.

Without a doubt, she is the candidate with the vision, passion, and energy to bring us towards Unity!

Ar aghaidh linn 🇮🇪

#Áras25 #SpéirGorm

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 5d

Suaimhneas síoraí ar a anam Gaelach. 💚

B’ambasadóir é Manchán dár nglúin féin agus duine a bhí lárnach san athbheochán a tharla ar na mallaibh sa chultúr agus sa Ghaeilge. Sheas sé i lár an aonaigh agus thiocfadh a rá nár chuir sé é féin ansin ach gur chuir an pobal ann é.

Ina bhealach séimh féin, chuir sé i gcuimhne dúinn fán ról atá ag an teanga maidir le tuiscint níos doimhne a fháil ar an cheantar thart orainn agus orainn féin.

Mairfidh a oidhreacht i meon fiosrach spreagúil na nGael agus iontu siúd a théann sa tóir ar shaol níos doimhne agus fíoraithe.

Suaimhneas síoraí ar a anam Gaelach. 💚

Perhaps unwillingly, he was the foremost cultural ambassador for our generation and instrumental in the resurgence of Irish language and culture.

He gently reminded us of the role the language has in understanding our surroundings, and knowing ourselves.

His legacy will live on in the curious minds of the Irish and beyond, in those who seek a deeper and more fulfilling life.

Suaimhneas síoraí ar a anam Gaelach 💚

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Michael O'Connell @moconnell007.bsky.social · 6d

So sorry to learn that Machán Magan has died. You certainly showed us the relevance of the past for the present; cf. your bestseller 'Thirty-Two Words for Field. Lost Words of the Irish Landscape'. 'Ireland in Iceland' another intriguing title. #Machán your enterprising & free spirit will be missed!

Manchán Magan @manchanmagan.bsky.social · Apr 30

On 11 June I'm giving a talk at The Fumbally Café in Dublin 8 to mark the launch of my new book, Ireland in Iceland: Gaelic Remnants in a Nordic Land.
I'll be selling and signing this book, as well as all my previous ones.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-in...

Ireland in Iceland - book launch

Come join us for the launch of "Ireland in Iceland" where we'll explore the fascinating connections between these two beautiful countries

www.eventbrite.ie

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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 6d

Manchán 🕯️

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 7d

Best of luck with your search :) 🤞

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 7d

No records on BSBI database in Mayo so if you found wild stuff would a significant find (new county record), exciting!

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David Smyth 🦇🌳 @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social · 10d

Still interested in any expert confirming squirrel and not other rodent/mammal

@irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social

David Smyth 🦇🌳 @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social · 18d

Would normally say its a squirrel seeing this in a woodland.

BUT

This is in an isolated woodland complex 20km away from nearest population of reds with treeless landscape between.

Anybody able to shed some light?

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 9d

Article on the potential for a new native woodland scheme focused on the uplands/Annex I habitat types

www.farmersjournal.ie/focus/forest...

Farmers Journal, Irish Farmers Journal, Farming in Ireland, Farmer Journal, Farmers in Ireland

Farming News, Farming Classifieds

www.farmersjournal.ie

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David Smyth 🦇🌳 @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social · 11d

www.crainnte.ie

Great website for anyone interested in Irish ecology and Irish language

Seathrún has done a serious amount of work getting this complete!

Baile - Crainnte agus Sceacha

Suíomh faoi chrainn agus sceacha in Éirinn

www.crainnte.ie

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 12d

Was glad to find (fairly confident on ID) Polytrichastrum alpinum - decent sized plants/apical cells of lamellae papillate. Fás garr go maith go bharr Binn Bhán sna Mám toirce inné. Also seen Raco lan sporophytes for the first time - reminded me of candle holder from beauty and the beast 😄

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David Smyth 🦇🌳 @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social · 12d

Bioacoustics?

Already finished it mate.

(Praying this design works and all detectors come back safely)

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 17d

Corcóg agus Leic aimhréidh maidin inné

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 18d

I take this back partly, not in the same area but records from coill na Forbacha which is believable. Quiet a lot of scrubby fields between the two places also and not a huge distance

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 18d

I wouldn't be confident on signs of squirrel but if I am right in my assumption of where you are here there are records for the species there on NBDC maps (I have seen one up the Tuam road in Galway city)

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Dean Mac Cú Uladh @dmac00.bsky.social · 20d

First record of oceanic liverwort Plagiochila bifaria for co. Armagh (VC H37) from near St Moninna’s Well, Sliabh gCuillinn

Hanging out above a rock face with a small waterfall below some rowans. Associates included Metzgeria conjugata.

#bryophytes #bryology #ireland #liverwort

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 20d

Lovely gemmiferous Scapania nemorea in the rain today, crab apple and a few yew seedlings in a gem conamara woodland

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 21d

Bhí an portach go haláinn innui

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Jennifer Hetzel @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social · 22d

Registration is live for our next Green Drinks! 🙌🏽

Rhodo Rangers @rhodorangers.bsky.social · 23d

The next Galway Green Drinks is Oct 14! We're excited to have Dr. Nóirín Burke & Dr. Maria Vittoria Marra from Galway Atlantaquaria speak about ocean literacy and the multiple ways they foster it through their work in the aquarium. Register: eventbrite.com/e/galway-green-drinks-tickets-1685827217589

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 22d

Same, always nice to have the social side as well. And the cookies were delicious 😄

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Jennifer Hetzel @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social · 23d

Had fun working with the @rhodorangers.bsky.social over the weekend to tackle invasive rhodo in Connemara!

Rhodo Rangers @rhodorangers.bsky.social · 24d

A long weekend of slow work digging up regrowth from old stumps and seedlings while getting stung by bees and drenched in the odd downpour at our first site in Corr Uí Mhongáin..... mostly done here but some giant rhubarb will eventually need seeing to

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