Man and Environment in Valencia Island

by G. Frank Mitchell and Frank Mitchell

For thousands of years the climate of Valencia Island in County Kerry has favoured the formation of peat. As the bogs expanded and deepened they swallowed up houses, cooking-places and walls of the prehistoric peoples who occupied the island. Early man gradually cut away the dense woodlands that covered the whole island so that by the time of the birth of Christ it was already treeless, and then turned to the bogs for fuel. Today, the peat cuttings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 090171478X
• ISBN13: 9780901714787
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
• Length: 134 Pages