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The Mighty Oak.

Thousands of living creatures each specifies occupying its own individual niche find food and shelter here. Its varied activities reflects the many aspects in our own lives.

Historical: Stone Age Farmers begin the clearance.

17th Century concealment of 'rebels'

1920 - 0.5% of Ireland in woodland.

Geographical: 1600 placenames contain 'dair' in some form.

Worship: Druidic Worship.

Penal times - was site for Mass.

Restaurant: Leaves. Acorns. Insects.

Industries: Tannin for leather making.

Barrel making

Ship Building

House Building

Charcoal for Furnaces

Roadways Crafts

Furniture making

Spice making (India)

Birdlife: Blue Tit Mistle Thrush

Wood Warbler Woodcock

Jay Long-Eared Owl

Chiff-Chaff Wood Pigeon

Willow Warbler Pheasant

Great Tit

Spotted Fly-catcher

Tree Creeper

Chaffinch

Blackeays

Mammals: Wood Mouse

Bats Badger

Pygmy Shrew

Pine Martin

Inertebates: Butterfiles Bugs

Moths Spiders

Beetles

Galls (40 species)

Fungi

Lichens

Ferns: Mosses,

Liverworths

[The Rabbit] [The Badger] [Ivy] [Honeysuckle] [Moss] [Common Oak] [Pedunculate Oak] [Lichens] [Common Lime]
[The Hedgehog] [The Bramble] [The Chiffchaff] [The Frog Hopper] [Hawthorn] [Tree Roots]
[The Wood Mouse] [The Pigmy Shrew] [The Sycamore] [The Guelder Rose] [The Ash] [Gorse] [Hazel] [Tootworth]
[Goat Willow] [The Rowan] [Common White Beam] [Spindle] [Dog Rose] [The Blackthorn] [Birds] [Grasshoppers & Crickets] [Dragonfly & Damesify] [Feral Goat] [Silver Birch] [Pine Martin] [Fungi] [Lough Carra] [Brown Trout] [The Mute Swan]
[The Otter] [Limestone] [Holly] [The Fox] [The Mighty Oak] [Common Polypody] [Treecreeper] [The Irish Stoat]
[The Hornbeam] [Bats]