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to allow "domestic turf-cutting" on SACs for a period of ten years from 1999. Turf-cutting continued on the margins of Clara Bog, although this had a negative impact on its condition. Negotiations took place to relocate turf-cutters to alternative sites of less ecological value. In 2012 it was
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road in the late 18th century. The bog subsided up to six meters following bisection by the road and associated drainage. The dome structure of the bog was also changed by the road, leaving two domes, a western one and an eastern one.
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in his hometown of Clara, when he opened the €2.1 million Clara bog visitor centre and library. He commented that the siting of the visitor centre avoided unnecessary intrusion on the tranquillity of the nature reserve.
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In the early 1980s, Clara Bog East was drained for potential industrial peat extraction, but public requests were made to the Irish
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for a ban on the tradition in protected areas. After a number of raised bogs, including Clara Bog, were designated
Special Areas of Conservation in the 1990s, the Irish government granted itself a
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catchment). Although usually classed as a relatively intact bog, it has been negatively affected by peat extraction and by the construction of the Clara to
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360:Ramsar.org
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383:RTÉ News
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