Bogs
A bog is a strange type of land. It can be cut and in months grow again. It grows with the help of the rain. When the rain cones and as it comes continously the bog keeps growing and growing and you might thing that sometimes it will stop growing but you would be wrong.
The number of species that live in a bog is huge, the few that I myself know of are the dragon fly, the common lizard, the emporer moth, the emperor caterpillar, the snipe, the fox, sheep and the hare which is commonly mistaken as a rabbit. The bog has surprisingly got many acids that could preserve a body. It has got a lot of different mosses and weeds such as sphagna, grey lichens, red sundews, the greens of grasses, sedges and heathers. Bogs can extend from one height to the next.

Bogs are an important part of our culture because we use it for fuel. Some people would be lost. Where the rainfall exceeds 1,250 mm and falls on more than 250 days a year blanket bog forms. In most areas of Ireland, where conditions are so wet that peat also forms directly on the mineral soil. As time goes on all of the bog except for the steepest slopes is covered in peat, which eventually levels out the bog. Blanket bogs are been studied by scientists
every day of the year looking for new finds.
Many tourists visit our bog regions and study them as well as
take photos. Our nearest one is The Céide Fields, which study prehistoric
times and the bogs. Altogether, my area uses the old time culture.

By Aidan.
With thanks to J.R. Cross 'Peatlands, Wasteland or Heritage?' (Wildlife Service Ireland) and http://www.ipcc.ie/wpireland.html

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