While on holiday recently I took the bike out on one of the very few nice days to tour South Wexford. It was my first longish ride side since crossing the UK on my return from mainland Europe. While the heat was absent, I enjoyed being back on the bike again. Though I visit Wexford a lot, I am not familiar with the very south of the county. I traveled first down to Wexford town and then across the county towards Hook Head. I also visited the lovely village of Duncannon where I stopped for an ice cream.
The last time I was in south Wexford was for a SCUBA diving trip with the Trinity Sub-Aqua Club in 1986. At that time I was researching the painted topshell Calliostoma zizyphinum (L.). I recorded collecting "39 variegated shells" at Slade Harbour (near Hook Head) on 13th July 1986, and on 14th July "10 variegated shells" at Hook Head. I had a paper published in the Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society documenting this and other collections - here's the reference:
O'Loughlin, E.F.M. (1989). Notes on the distribution of Calliostoma zizyphinum (L.) (Mollusca) on the shores and shallow waters of the Irish coast. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society. No 12, pp 22-30.
O'Loughlin, E.F.M. (1989). Notes on the distribution of Calliostoma zizyphinum (L.) (Mollusca) on the shores and shallow waters of the Irish coast. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society. No 12, pp 22-30.
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