Bogs unlike swamps or marshes are not necessarily limited to the lowground. Above the conifers in the Sheahy Mountains of County Cork, the wetland rises and falls, each false summit beckoning a climber higher, the sky growing nearer with every step.
Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. ... -- from The Dubliners by James Joyce
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