Kilcolman Bog Nature Reserve
Site Details
County
Cork
Location
The Reserve is situated approximately 4 miles north west of Doneraile, just off the Charleville to Mitchelstown road, Co. Cork.
Area
30
Established
1993
Coordinates
Latitude: 52.248
Longitude: -8.613
Longitude: -8.613
Ownership
Partly State-owned and partly privately owned
The fen is located in a glacially eroded limestone hollow, south of the Ballyhoura Mountains in north Cork. It has been a traditional wintering ground for Greenland white fronted geese and thousands of duck and is also of great botanical importance, harbouring a number of plant species absent or extremely rare elsewhere in Co. Cork. The reserve is comprised of 30 hectares, or which 9 are State-owned and 21 are privately owned.