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Lecture to the Beara Historical Society
Mar
10
2026
Posted: 14:20 GMT
Michael O’Connell travelled to Castletownbere on 5th March and gave a lecture to the Beara Historical Society on long-term environmental change in the Beara peninsula and the wider region. The lecture summarised the recent publication: ‘Holocene vegetation and flora dynamics of the west Cork/Kerry region, south-western Ireland’ IN Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (2025; M. O’Connell & A. Overland); [Read]
Photo shows preparations being made for coring at the edge of Loch Beag, Barrees, Beara peninsula. The 8-m-long lake-sediment core that was retrieved provided a detailed record of environmental change that extended back to the end of the last glaciation, i.e. 16000 years (photo: Michael O’Connell, 23 October 2004).
