2006 Fungi of Fingal Woodlands - Fingal Biodiversity

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Ecological Study of the Countryside Habitats in County Fingal Woodland fungi 1.3.4 St. Catherine’s Park View of River Liffey from footbridge St. Catherine’s Monastery was founded by Warris de Peche in 1219 for the Canons of St. Victor. The site was already the location of a holy well to St. Catherine and appears to have been an important place of pilgrimage. On the 1830s 6 inch map of the area St. Catherine’s Park and St. Catherine’s wells to the north of the Park are represented. Within the present park are St. Catherine’s Chapel, a flat area of open grassland, broadleaf woodland, mixed and plantation coniferous woods, a sluice on the river, along with paths or rides running through the wood. St. Catherine’s Woods were described in ‘A Preliminary Report on areas of scientific interest in County Dublin by Roger Goodwillie for An Foras Forbartha (1973). That report states: ‘This area is …. Estate woodland…… with natural vegetation…. The area extends to the banks of the River Liffey. Some of the characteristic species of river banks are present e.g. Viburnum opulus (Guelder Rose), Crepis paludosa (Hawksbeard) and Scrophularia umbrosa (Figwort). In the ground cover of the woods, which include few coniferous trees, there are…. Lamiastrum gabobdolon (Yellow Archangel), Veronica montana (Wood Speedwell) and Melica uniflora (Wood Melick Grass) are common and tree interesting non-green plants occur:- Lathraea squamaria (Toothwort), Monotropa hypopitys (Yellow Bird’s Nest) and Orobanche hederae (Ivy Broomrape). These woods are attractive to birds and mammals’. The woods are still attractive to birds and animals including many human visitors who walk through the park daily. In fact, each of the sites in this survey draw many visitors. There is no playground at St. Catherine’s as yet but it is a well utilized green space. Previously published information on fungi in St. Catherine’s Park - Lucan Demesne is sparse. The most significant paper is a report by Carleton Rea of a British Mycological Society/ Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club Meeting in the area (1898 Irish Naturalist vol. 7 pp. 286-289). 10
Ecological Study of the Countryside Habitats in County Fingal Woodland fungi St. Catherine’s today The park has a range of habitats from Ivy-clad Beech woodland to an open field near the river. A strip of woodland hugs the river. The steep slope away from the river is also wooded, partially with a Sitka Spruce plantation forestry. St. Catherine’s Park is a continuous landscape unit along the Liffey River valley. There is a sense of landscape continuity both physically along the river and through time. A small piece of land along the bend of the river as far as the weir is host to some unusual mushroom species. The site is quite diverse for fungi. Habitat variation at St. Catherine’s is less dramatic compared with other sites but the niches are distinctly different. Humidity is relatively high in the wood adjacent to the river. Despite the difficulty of access to steep ground in part of the site, the fungal diversity of the site is high for size of the site. Pollution of the river by effluent and from the water treatment plant upstream is an issue for water and air quality. 11
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