North Kerry Waxcap Survey 2012 - the Northern Ireland Fungus Group

Dingle has three mountainous bulks. This central range, the western range of Mount Brandon,
the second highest mountain in Ireland and the eastern Slieve Mish range. The Mount
Brandon area was not as good as the valleys cutting into the hills were not as steep and were
hence wetter and boggier. Slieve Mish was also more rounded and very wet and boggy
although some of the possible sites involved very long speculative walk-ins and so there was
not enough time to visit these sites.
The offshore islands have without doubt the greatest potential. Offshore islands have been the
best sites on all the surveys bar the Clare survey (Mitchel, 2006) on which no islands were
visited. All effort should be made to visit at least Great Blasket although all the Blaskets except
for Tearaght are probably good. The Maharees have also potential although are lower and
more accessible but are also worth visiting.
Great Blasket from Dunmore Head
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