{"id":564,"date":"2018-09-18T22:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irishwetlands.ie\/?p=564"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:06:07","slug":"irwc-visits-pollardstown-fen-ramsar-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irishwetlands.ie\/ga\/irwc-visits-pollardstown-fen-ramsar-site\/","title":{"rendered":"IRWC visits Pollardstown Fen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-image:url(&#039;https:\/\/www.irishwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IRWC_Pollardstown3.jpg&#039;);--awb-bg-size:cover;width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy fusion-empty-column-bg-image\" data-bg-url=\"https:\/\/www.irishwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IRWC_Pollardstown3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fusion-empty-dims-img-placeholder\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27711%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20400%20711%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27711%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_5_6 5_6 fusion-five-sixth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:83.333333333333%;width:calc(83.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.83333333333333 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><em><strong>IRWC visits Pollardstown Fen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, IRWC visited Pollardtown Fen located near Newbridge in County Kildare. Pollardstown\u00a0 is perhaps the biggest fen in Ireland, and a real mosaic of plant communities fed by dozens of calcareous springs. The site is well used by the public, facilitated by a boardwalk circuit through the southern part of the site. There were significant challenges several years back associated with managing the flooding at the site during the construction of the Kildare Bypass. The fen habitat is best managed through grazing, and currently there are associated difficulties relating to finding suitable stock for grazing a &#8216;wet&#8217; site, combined with the management of stock in a heavily-visited public amenity area.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IRWC visits Pollardstown Fen - Coiste Bogaigh Ramsar na h\u00c9ireann<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishwetlands.ie\/ga\/irwc-visits-pollardstown-fen-ramsar-site\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IRWC visits Pollardstown Fen - 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