Publications
Wild Mayo
Wild Mayo: A new book on the landscape and wildlife of Mayo.
Limestone lakes and turloughs, moorland and machair - Mayo’s dramatic landscape offers unspoiled natural habitats that are now among the most precious in western Europe. Its bogs and unpolluted rivers and lakes are home to rare plants and animals, its offshore islands shelter breeding seabirds and migrant Arctic geese.
Wild Mayo takes the reader on a journey of discovery through the county. It describes the rich wildlife and flora of a remarkable range of habitats, from mountain summit to pristine Atlantic shore.
Michael Viney, writer, painter and naturalist, lives on the Mayo coast below Mweelrea Mountain. He has written and illustrated a weekly column on nature and ecology for The Irish Times for more than 30 years. Among his books are “Ireland: A Smithsonian Natural History”, written for America’s Smithsonian Institution, “A Year’s Turning”, a month-by-month chronicle of life at Thallabawn and “Ireland’s Ocean: A Natural History”, published by The Collins Press.
Wild Mayo is available from the Heritage Officer, Mayo County Council.
100pp Hardback, €15 + p&p
Deirdre Cunningham
Heritage Officer
Mayo County Council
Áras an Chontae
Castlebar
Phone: 094 9024444
Email: heritageofficer@mayococo.ie