Forestry has devoured most of the blanket bog in Britain.
From an original area of more than 3.5 million acres, just 10 percent of blanket bog may be left.
There are Atlantic salt flats which fringe on the blanket bog, particularly in the lower reaches of the bay.
However there are areas of peat land, particularly to the south, where a blanket bog is located on the border with Kilcummin.
The area's biological interest includes breeding birds and blanket bog.
A notable feature of the physical geography around Cleggan is blanket bog.
This wild area of uplands is covered largely with blanket bog.
Much of inland Erris is covered with blanket bog.
The country's blanket bogs, with their rare mosses and sundews, are under particular threat.
Extreme oceanic blanket bog dominates the site in its inland areas.
