Five Kildare bogs to be restored by Bord na Mona as part of €108 million spend
National scheme will protect the storage of 100 million tonnes of CO2 emissions
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Five bogs in west Kildare are included in a list of 82 bogs nationwide, which are set to be restored by Bord na Móna.
The final list of bogs was issued following the allocation of €108 million for bog restoration by the Dept. of the Environment, Climate and Communications.
The five west Kildare bogs initially selected for restoration under the scheme are Ballydermot Bog, which straddles the Kildare/Offaly border between Rathangan and Edenderry, Lodge Bog, which separates Lullymore and Allenwood, and where a good area of peatland has already been rewetted by Bord na Móna, Ticknevin Bog just south of the Grand Canal, Timahoe South Bog (where the AES owned landfill is currently operating) and Timahoe North Bog, where permission was granted for a 238 hectare solar farm earlier this year.