Bog of Allen
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In The Gutter? Look up please
Posted on June 19, 2010
A spectacular new image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) has been taken with the ESO VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile as part of one of its first major observational campaigns. By observing in infrared light VISTA’s view is less affected by dust and reveals a myriad of cooler stars as well as a prominent bar of stars across the central region. The VISTA image provides much new information on the history and development of the galaxy.
The Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)
lies in the constellation of the same name and is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky. It is prominent enough to be seen with good binoculars and was discovered by Caroline Herschel from England in 1783. NGC 253 is a spiral galaxy that lies about 13 million light-years away. It is the brightest member of a small collection of galaxies called the Sculptor Group, one of the closest such groupings to our own Local Group of galaxies. Part of its visual prominence comes from its status as a starburst galaxy, one in the throes of rapid star formation. NGC 253 is also very dusty, which obscures the view of many parts of the galaxy (eso0902). Seen from Earth, the galaxy is almost edge on, with the spiral arms clearly visible in the outer parts, along with a bright core at its centre.
And Then There Is US :
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And There is Monty Python:
The Galaxy Song By Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you’ve had quite eno-o-o-o-o-oughJust remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It’s a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick
But out by us it’s just three thousand light-years wide
We’re thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
We go ’round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universeThe universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed thereisSo remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth
200 AD To 1979
Posted on June 13, 2010-
283 AD 283 AD – In that engage- ment Conan Mac Morna, who is said to have been the grand- son of Goll, commanded the Clanna Morna in turn ; and ever since the fall of Fionn Ua Baoiscne, AD 283, at Rath Bre- • Almhuin. The ruins of the fort of Almhuin are still extant on …In that engage- ment Conan Mac Morna, who is said to have been the grand- son of Goll, commanded the Clanna Morna in turn ; and ever since the fall of Fionn Ua Baoiscne, AD 283, at Rath Bre- • Almhuin. The ruins of the fort of Almhuin are still extant on the west end of the Curragh of Kildare; and what we corruptly call the ” Bog of Allen“ at this day, was formerly the forest of Almhuin, in which the knights were accustomed to enjoy the pleasures of the chase.
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1498 1498 – In the clearmg out of these great plains the forests were destroyed, and great quantities of trees are found deeply buried in the bogs ; and in the formation of the grand canal, when cutting through the Bog of Allen in Kildare, oak, fir, yew, and other trees, were …In the clearmg out of these great plains the forests were destroyed, and great quantities of trees are found deeply buried in the bogs ; and in the formation of the grand canal, when cutting through the Bog of Allen in Kildare, oak, fir, yew, and other trees, were found buried twenty or thirty feet below the surface, and these trees generally lie prostrated in a horizontal position, and have the appearance of being burned at the bottom of their trunks and roots, fire having been …
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1650 Apr 24, 1650 – Patrick Flemming [80] An Irish highwayman who held away near the Bog of Allen and, after numerous murders, was executed on 24th of April, 1650. Captain Zachary Howard [84] A Royalist who lost his estates and turned highwayman.
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1690 1690 – An Irisli river, .mi miles lout:, llowim: Irani the Bog ot Allen into the Irish Sea. The scene of the ;;reat battle in 1690 is marked by an obelisk, seen here. Sec Atlas 6, E 3. BOYNE MEDAL . The medal struck in commemor.Uion ot William of Orange’s …mi miles lout:, llowim: Irani the Bog ot Allen into the Irish Sea. The scene of the ;;reat battle in 1690 is marked by an obelisk, seen here. Sec Atlas 6, E 3. BOYNE MEDAL . The medal struck in commemor.Uion ot William of Orange’s viclnrv :lt thi’ Hovnc- A biiitler of the Boys Bricade ^- j^t”: ,x^: i’l > [;rri;.i,U-ri itl camp BOYS BRIGADE. A great pioneer orcanisatiun tor training and helpini.: boys. iDunJed in Glasgow in 1S.S3 b\ Sir William Smith ...
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1697 1697 - The Bog of Allen, the passes of the Grampians, were not more unsafe than this small knot of lanes, surrounded by the mansions of the greatest nobles of a flourishing and enlightened kingdom. At length, in 1697, a bill for abolishing the fran424 chises of these ...Having performed this ceremony he was permitted, and the permission was blamed by many of fhe Savoyards, to limp home without a rag upon him. The Bog of Allen, the passes of the Grampians, were not more unsafe than this small knot of lanes, surrounded by the mansions of the greatest nobles of a flourishing and enlightened kingdom. At length, in 1697, a bill for abolishing the fran424 chises of these places passed both Houses, and received the royal assent. The Alsatians and ...
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1770 1770 - grand canal was begun from the city оТтсл^~__^_о^ ÍJVer Shannon, and was actually carried on to the bog of Allen. ~-iv,t Uic engineer's want of ability occasioned great errors in the original plan and survey ; and the work was interrupted in 1770. A canal is ...grand canal was begun from the city оТтсл^~__^_о^ ÍJVer Shannon, and was actually carried on to the Bog of Allen. ~-iv,t Uic engineer's want of ability occasioned great errors in the original plan and survey ; and the work was interrupted in 1770. A canal is completed from the town of Newry to the sea, which was, however, intended to have passed that town towards the collieries of Drumglass and Dungannon. This attempt,, however, to supply Dublin with Irish coals has hitherto ...
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1784 1784 - Mail coaches were introduced in 1784. It is within the memory of middle-aged men that our national congress deemed the electric telegraph chimerical.
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1823 May 6, 1823 - Allen 6 May 1823. I am here placed in the centre of an immense bog which takes its- name from a small hill under whose declivity the chapel and house are built where I now write. What perhaps interests me most in the wide and vast expanse of the Bog of Allen is ...Allen 6 May 1823. I am here placed in the centre of an immense bog which takes its- name from a small hill under whose declivity the chapel and house are built where I now write. What perhaps interests me most in the wide and vast expanse of the Bog of Allen is that it afforded for nearly two centuries a place of refuge to the apostolic men who have gone before me in preaching the faith and administering the sacraments to a people in every respect worthy of such pastors .
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1853 Jul 29, 1853 – At the trial, the plaintiff produced aud proved a conveyance from the Incnmbered Estates Court, dated 29th of July, 1853, with a map in the margin thereof, which map was referred to by the conveyance, conveying to the plaintiff in fee that part of the Bog of Allen …At the trial, the plaintiff produced aud proved a conveyance from the Incnmbered Estates Court, dated 29th of July, 1853, with a map in the margin thereof, which map was referred to by the conveyance, conveying to the plaintiff in fee that part of the Bog of Allen and CInnagh situate in the Barony of Carberry and County of Kildare, containing 777-v. 3n.
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1979 1979 – Then we’ll travel west to Clonmacnoise, the most important monastic site in Ireland, the site of fantastic high crosses and round towers, and visited by the Pope in 1979. Later we’re off for the 45-minute Bord na Mona Bog Rail Tour that will take us through …Then we’ll travel west to Clonmacnoise, the most important monastic site in Ireland, the site of fantastic high crosses and round towers, and visited by the Pope in 1979. Later we’re off for the 45-minute
Bord na Mona Bog Rail Tour that will take us through the Blackwater section of the famous Bog of Allen where we’ ll learn about its special flora, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years.
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Money Myths
Posted on June 04, 2010
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1. To register a domain costs a lot of money .
No It costs 10 euros a year for a dot com
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2. When you have a domain it costs a lot of money to host it.
No it costs 7 euro a month
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3. Web design is expensive.
No thousands of web page designs are free. This web page blog is free
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4. It takes ages weeks to set it all up like email and things.
No it takes an hour
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5. I have to employ someone to set it up. That will be expensive.
I charge 10 euros an hour. It takes two hours.
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6. I will need help if I get in a mess.
Yes I charge 8 euros an hour for support
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7. If I want to change it I cannot.
Maybe not. Call me I will do it while you wait. If its easy its free.
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8. Companies want to charge me 700 to 1200 euros to create a domain and web site.
Great.
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My mother said to me : “A fool and their money are soon parted” Not that that is relevant Their mothers told them “A mug is born every minute” Mothers are grand.
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9. It will take months for the search engines to find my site. Or I have to pay a lot of money for it.
No. I set up this site four days a go. Type Bog Of Allen 2010 in to Google : See the total number of hits for the search see what positon this site is.
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10. I need a .ie address because I am Irish .
Like IrishTimes.com and BookOfKells.com and BridgeHouse.com and Tullamore.com and BogOfAllen.com and ItsBiggerOnTheInside.com and LookWhatIFoundInTheAttic.com and IrishSecure.com and Locky.com and pjfbncyl.com and TullamoreChamber.com
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Ok You are right .
Bye bye.
Please do not telephone 05793 60653 and say
“Philip, I want a web site that looks very modern and I want to be trained to use it. I want 5 email addresses, an auto responder, mail forwarding, webmail, stats, sub domains a personal blog and a company blog. Graphics, a video, I have 100 euros! If after 30 days OI dont like it I want 50 euros back and a DVD of everything you’ve done. I have a car! Can we spend the day together? “
Of course! Monday? Tuesday? Day? Night? Tell me when.
Philip Finlay-Bryan B.Sc (Hons) Psych /Computing MA C.Q.S.W.
Dispelling Some Myths
Posted on June 04, 2010The following may help to dispel some myths.
Editing something on the Internet Is Extremly Difficult. You Need A Degree in Computer Science and many years experiece. If you get it wrong you will destroy your web site and possibly harm the Internet for everybody!
This Is Not True.
That is A Blog It Is Not A Real Web Page. To edit a real web page you have to be a programmer
This Is Not True
http://bogofallen.com/edit/Buddhistpoetry.htm
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Finding Something On The Internet Is Difficult. I have to use special characters like + or “” or ( )
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What Is The Weather Like In Clare Offaly Ireland? Mostly Cloudy With Showers. Notice how I meant Clara and Google “Guessed” what I wanted!
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What was the name of Freuds Cat? “Time Spent With Cats Is Never Wasted” What A Lovely Quote I will remember that!
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How many packets of crisps do Polish people eat every year? Well Americans eat 4 Pounds Of Crisps! Wow! You see how one thing leads to another and so on! Please Note This Site Did Not Exist 3 days ago. The Search Engines have it regestered because I told them!
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Jobs
Posted on June 02, 2010The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others. For example, you might write about a city council meeting on your blog or in an online forum. Or you could fact-check a newspaper article from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias on your blog. Or you might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post it online.
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Wikipedia Says :
A chamber of commerce (also referred to in some circles as a board of trade) is a form of business network, e.g., a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to advocate on behalf of the business community. Local businesses are members, and they elect a board of directors or executive council to set policy for the chamber.
SNIPPETS FROM HIGHBEAM:
The Mirror (London, England); Aug 21, 2008; 700+ Words …for jobs in Ireland. American…its plant in Tullamore, Co Offaly, with the…employment in Tullamore for many years…workforce in Tullamore that we will…journey from Offaly. The news…Office show …
QUOTE:
Unemployment figures almost double in Offaly
Published Date: 13 January 2010
By Grace O’Dea
Grace O’Dea reports
THE number of those on the Live Register in Offaly has almost doubled in a year.
Figures released by the Central Statistics Office show an increase of 46% in the number of those on the register in Offaly between December 2008 and December 2009.
Last month there were 8,191 people in Offaly on the Live Register. The biggest increase was recorded in Tullamore where there are 3,755 signing on, compared with 2,538 for the same period last year, an increase of 48%. There was also a 1% increase between November and December of last year. There are 2,587 males and 1,168 females among this number.
Tullamore.org says:
Tullamore is the primary town of the Midlands, located in the centre of Ireland.
Being the most central town in Ireland, Tullamore has a diverse population from all over the island of Ireland and this is reflected in the cosmopolitan feel to this thriving ‘Gateway’.
Tullamore Chambrer Of Commerce Web Site:
Tullamore continues to attract a growing number of indigenous and international SME’s to it’s central base in the midlands of Ireland.
A cluster of health industries have located their projects in the expansive industrial park and a separate state of the art business park is attracting a growing number of companies offering financial and business services.
With a population of 250,000 within a thirty mile radius, Tullamore offers an excellent platform to business startups, relocating Irish industry and international companies, seeking a presence in Europe.
Multinational firms operating successfully include: [] & italics Mine
· Boston Scientific – Single Use Medical Devices.
· Isotron Ireland – Contract Sterilisation.
· Sennheiser Ireland – Sound Systems.
· Tyco Healthcare – Medical Devices
· Zaninni Ireland – Packaging for Pharmaceutical industry.
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The Chamber has not reported anything since :
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Freund Corporation to Establish European Hub in Tullamore
Tuesday, 26th January 2010
Since May 2008 15 things have been noted by the Tullamore Chamber of Commerce.
Research shows :
Most of Tullamore’s large employers have now been wiped out in just a few years. Figures released by the Central Statistics Office show an increase of 46% in the number of those on the register in Offaly between December 2008 and December 2009. A decision to cut jobs was linked to declining sales and increased competition from low cost manufacturers for the medical supplies products manufactured in Tullamore.
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The news that 150-200 jobs are to go at the Covidien factory in Tullamore, Co Offaly, has come as an immense shock to local people.
It is the second major jobs blow to the town in as many years, following the closure of the Boston Scientific factory, also located in the Sragh Industrial Estate. Sadly, some of the Covidien staff had got work there after the closure of Boston Scientific.
There is widespread local concern that even during the boom years, the town did not receive its share of industrial investment. Covidien, formerly Tyco, has been based in Tullamore for 28 years, and is the town’s largest employer, making medical devices.
The planned voluntary redundancies mean that almost one-third of the 650 jobs will be lost.
The blow to the local economy is all the greater as there are many families where both partners work in Covidien.
Local businessman Dominic Doheny, who heads the Midland Gateway Chamber of Commerce, representing Athlone, Tullamore and Mullingar, has said that despite the fact that Tullamore is in the constituency of Taoiseach Brian Cowen, it has not gained in terms of jobs, and he makes the point that the Taoiseach is inevitably focused on the national economic crisis, and cannot give the same attention to the constituency as he did during the boom years.
The Irish Times Reports : http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0526/breaking26.html
Close to 200 jobs have been lost at a medical devices manufacturing plant in Co Offaly, it has been confirmed.
Management at the healthcare group Covidien, which is the biggest employer in Tullamore, met unions and staff this afternoon to confirm the job losses.
A spokeswoman for Covidien said a 160 full-time positions would go through an early retirement and voluntary redundancies programme. A further 39 temporary jobs will also be lost over the next few weeks.
She said the decision to cut jobs was linked to declining sales and increased competition from low cost manufacturers for the medical supplies products manufactured in Tullamore. She added that it had exhausted all other actions before announcing the job losses.
Covidien employs 650 people in Tullamore, part of a 42,000-strong global workforce. The Dublin-headquartered company also has operation in Galway and Athlone. It has operated in Ireland for nearly 30 years.
A number of cost cutting measures were recently introduced at the plant, including the loss of overtime and new shift arrangements. However, Siptu branch organiser Frank Jones said that employees were shocked by today’s news.
“There’s a lot of shock because it came out this morning that there was going to be an announcement and that was the first we had really heard about it. We have been engaging with management as recently as last Friday when there was a meeting and we weren’t told anything then. It was only when the news broke through the media that we became aware that job losses were a possibility,” he said.
“This is a devastating because Covidien is the biggest employer in the town and so we’re all in shock, “he added.
Mr Jones told The Irish Times consultations between unions and management would begin tomorrow.
“Management have told us they envisage people exiting the company by early September so the job losses will be taking effect fairly shortly,” he said. “There’s every hope that jobs can be saved and that’s what we’ll be focusing on in our talks with management. Our priority is to get the number of losses down to as low as we can.”
Mr Jones said full-time workers are expected to secure a severance package of six weeks pay for every year of service plus the statutory two weeks entitlement.
The New-York listed healthcare group completed the transfer of its place of incorporation from Bermuda to Dublin in June 2009. The company, which is an offshoot of Tyco International, had signalled the move two months earlier when the incoming Obama administration introduced a clampdown on tax havens.
In a statement issued this afternoon, Covidien said it would continue to be a major employer in Tullamore.
“The company has made significant investments to automate key product lines to competitively position the plant for the future. A further investment of approximately €3 million is planned for this year,” it said.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen described the losses as “deeply regrettable”.
Mr Cowen said he has spoken to the company’s CEO who assured him that Covidien remain committed to Tullamore.
“The fact is that this industry cannot escape the global downturn…competition from firms based in low cost countries mean that Covidien will not see a return to previous sales volumes.
“This decline in product volume meant that difficult decisions about scaling down the workforce were necessary to help secure the remaining 450 jobs in Tullamore,” he said.
Fine Gael said the IDA must conduct a thorough examination of Covidien’s competitiveness problems in order to secure the future of the company in Tullamore.
Most of Tullamore’s large employers have now been wiped out in just a few years. I am deeply disappointed that Covidien, through these redundancies, now joins the list of companies that have laid off huge numbers of staff. It’s extraordinary that the town’s employment base could be hollowed out in this manner,” said Olwyn Enright, Fine Gael TD for Laois-Offaly.
The Labour Party described the job losses as “a bitter blow” for the local community.
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Tullamore 2010
Posted on June 01, 2010
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I Am An Entrepreneur:
(Click For Main Site) European SME Week 2010, which will take place from 25 May to 1 June, aims to:
- provide information on what the EU and national, regional and local authorities are offering as support to micro, small and medium-sized businesses;
- promote entrepreneurship so that more people, and in particular younger ones, seriously consider becoming an entrepreneur as a career option;
- give recognition to entrepreneurs for their contribution to Europe’s welfare, jobs, innovation and competitiveness.Here is An Inspiring Video:
Launched in 2009, the European SME Week is coordinated by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry as one of the measures implementing Principle 1 of the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) , which states that “the EU and Member States should create an environment within which entrepreneurs and family businesses can thrive and entrepreneurship is rewarded”.
European SME Week 2010 is a pan-European campaign taking place in 37 participating countries, which is however fully decentralised in order for events and activities to take place as close as possible to the established and potential entrepreneurs themselves. Events will be organised at national, regional or local level by business organisations, business support providers, as well as by national, regional and local authorities in the participating countries. These events should also be an opportunity for existing SMEs to share their experiences and to further develop their businesses.
A Google Maps Visit To Tullamore :
A young Entrepreneur give us A Hair Treatment and the music is great! And A Complimentary Micon:
Shopping? Tullamore is getting a new Mall:
Then we have virtual Shopping which I will be incorporating in : TullamoreShoppingCenter.com It’s mine:
Of Course This is in the Distant Future; Or Is It?
The Time is 5.23 am 01/06/2010. Lets see……..
I had to answer mail but here is the video :
This might help? Sorry Its Blue Mars
Or This?
Ok We beter watch The Gorillaz who are headlining in Glastonbury
Wiki :The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in the world.[1] The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km²), had over 385 live performances[2] and was attended by around 150,000 people. In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages[3] and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000
Ok that will do! Bye For Now
I Am A Virtual Entrepeneur! Havent you heard? Its The Coming Thing!
The Bog of Allen
Posted on May 27, 2010From Wikipedia :
The Bog of Allen (Móin Alúine in Irish) is a large peat bog in the centre of Ireland between the rivers Liffey and Shannon. The Irish Peatland Conservation Council describes the bog as “an important area of peatland, as much a part of Irish natural heritage as the Book of Kells.”[1] The bog, however, is in danger now after centuries of agricultural exploitation and recent encroachments by development.[citation needed] Efforts are underway to save the bog and preserve its fragile ecological state. The bog’s 958 square kilometers (370 square miles) stretch into County Offaly, County Meath, County Kildare, County Laois, and County Westmeath.[2] Peat is mechanically harvested on a large scale by Bórd na Móna,[citation needed] the government-owned peat production industry. The area has miles of narrow gauge industrial railways for transporting turf to processing plants and turf powered power plants. In addition, the cutover portions are used as area for grazing. The bog is crossed by the Grand Canal and the Royal Canal (this section of the Royal is no longer used)
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