Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape 1993
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-9176-3_16
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Early land use and vegetation history at Derryinver Hill, Renvyle Peninsula, Co. Galway, Ireland

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“…The abandonment of active farming may have resulted in conditions suitable for peat initiation (cf. Molloy & O’Connell 1993).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The abandonment of active farming may have resulted in conditions suitable for peat initiation (cf. Molloy & O’Connell 1993).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…; Molloy and O'Connell 1995), i.e., they are more than three millennia older than those reported here. While linear walls dating to the mid-Iron Age have been reported from sites such as Derryinver, western Connemara (Molloy and O'Connell 1993), enclosed landscape is a phenomenon ascribable to the period 1750-1850 in Ireland (Duffy 2007: 40), though enclosure may also have taken place much earlier, at least in parts under Norman control (cf. O'Sullivan and Downey 2007).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is comparable to the case of Céide fields in north County Mayo where peat encroached diachronously over the Neolithic landscape of farmland, ritual monuments, and settlement sites, following their abandonment (Molloy and O'Connell, 1995;Caulfield et al, 1998). The fact that peat growth followed, rather than caused, abandonment of agricultural activity at both Céide fields to the north and in the Connemara National Park to the south (Molloy and O'Connell, 1993;O'Connell, 1994), supports the hypothesis that climate change promoted peat growth more strongly than anthropogenic factors in the Murrisk Peninsula. If the accelerated expansion of blanket bog, indicated by alluvial sediments, macrofossils, and pollen, coincides with a climatic deterioration (Kelly, 2002) at 1200 B.C., which would have caused increased erosion of drumlins and highlands, then the isolated standing stones predating climate change must at least be older than 1200 B.C.…”
Section: Evidence For Environmental Change In the Murrisk Peninsulamentioning
confidence: 85%
“…(O'Connell, 1990a), and, in Connemara to the south, peat initiation was locally retarded until 1700 yr B.P. through land-use management (Molloy and O'Connell, 1993). In general, however, pollen analysis shows that there was a massive expansion of blanket peat shortly after 2000 B.C.…”
Section: Evidence For Environmental Change In the Murrisk Peninsulamentioning
confidence: 99%