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Mind Map by cian.buckley, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by cian.buckley
over 11 years ago
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Using Our Peat Bogs
- 5% of IRL covered in peat bogs
- extracted for centuries
- cooking/heating
- cooking/heating
- up to 20th century only basic tools used
- 1964 - Bord na Mona
- sped up expoitation of bogs
- exploits raised bogs
- deep/flat/a lot of turf
- Midlands
- deep/flat/a lot of turf
- sped up expoitation of bogs
- 1964 - Bord na Mona
- extracted for centuries
- Exploiting our Midland Bogs
- Step 1 - Bogs are prepared
- Drainage
- In the past
- bogs left because ppl could not drain them
- bogs left because ppl could not drain them
- With newer technolgy
- Ditcher
- digs drains to remove surplus wayer
- digs drains to remove surplus wayer
- Grader
- levels the bog
- levels the bog
- Heavy Tractors
- lay railway tracks
- lay railway tracks
- Ditcher
- In the past
- Drainage
- Step 2 - Peat is harvested
- With newer technology
- milled peat
- miller scrapes 1/2 cm of bog and tears into tiny fragments
- left to dry
- turned over by a harrow to speed it up
- turned over by a harrow to speed it up
- ridgers
- gather it into small ridges
- gather it into small ridges
- harvesters
- miller scrapes 1/2 cm of bog and tears into tiny fragments
- milled peat
- in the past
- slean
- used to cut turf sods
- used to cut turf sods
- sods footed and left to dry
- slean
- With newer technology
- Step 3 - Peat is transported away
- in the past
- animal drawn carts
- animal drawn carts
- with newer technology
- turf trains
- turf trains
- in the past
- Step 4 - Using the processed peat
- in the past
- sod peat used as household fuel
- sod peat used as household fuel
- since bord na mona
- milled peat for electricity
- peat briquettes
- moss peat
- fertiliser
- fertiliser
- sod peat
- milled peat for electricity
- in the past
- Step 1 - Bogs are prepared
- Future Uses of Bogs
- Used up/preserved?
- What can we do with our cutaway bogs?
- coniferous trees can be grown
- swampy wetlands for animals
- wind farms
- coniferous trees can be grown
- Used up/preserved?
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