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Deep Mapping Lough Boora Sculpture Park Lough Boora Sculpture Park has been developed on cutaway bogs. The Collins + work reveals how art can help to rebuild a relationship between people, Goto place and non-human others. There is one more creative impulse, an agency that is at the heart of this matter, sphagnum – peat moss. Deep Mapping Lough Boora Sculpture Park We have collections of moss in glass jars filled with water next to our studio window. Sphagnum grows noticeably taller and denser in this artificial environment. I cannot believe the strength of such a flimsy thing, Deep Mapping it can rise above the water as it moves towards the light. On any sunny day numerous small bubbles come out from the translucent leaves. Tiny Lough Boora Sculpture Park insects are swimming in and around the plants. Reclaim | Rehabilitate | Restore | Regenerate Bog lands are not wastelands. Raised bogs are as monumental and significant as redwood forests. Sphagnum is an extraordinary living thing. It is small, fragile but at the same time resilient, never harmful. Always close to water it is absorbent, spongy to walk on. Softness is the essence of the plant. Art can be a response to small things. Use your sensibility to listen to the breath of the bog. Imagine the sight and sound as the spore capsules explode. Feel the energy as the air is filled with an infinity of spores, another cycle begins. Reiko Goto Collins Reclaim Reclaim | Rehabilitate | Restore | Regenerate Tim Collins + Reiko Goto Collins Ireland THIS IS THE BACK SIDE OF THE FRONT COVER. Deep Mapping Lough Boora Sculpture Park Blank no printed text or image Commons and Lords Hansard, to take advantage of the opportunities at their command. Some intervention on Official Report of debates in British Parliament the part of the Government was imperatively called for. Facts had proved that the WASTE LANDS (IRELAND) voluntary efforts of the landlords alone could not be depended upon to affect any HC Deb 28 April 1846 vol 85 cc1198-210 large development of this great national resource for the employment and support of the people. And if it were said that facilities should be afforded to them by the law to dispose of their waste lands more freely than they could do at present, the Mr. P. Scrope [constituency of Stroud] rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill answer to this proposal would be, that with all the facilities that could be devised, or for promoting the reclamation of Waste Lands in Ireland. He apologised for once afforded to the landlords, they would still be too slow in their operation to meet the more calling the attention of the House to a question connected with the relief of pressing demand of the population for fresh land to cultivate. And, moreover, the the Irish poor. He was in hopes that Her Majesty’s Government would have saved same evils would follow, which had always resulted from the practice of returning him the necessity of doing so, by taking up this subject themselves. It was true, at the land, without condition, after reclamation, to the landlord, to be by him let or the beginning of the Session several Bills were laid upon the Table of the House sub-let as he might think fit. In fact, the very term “waste lands” was a disgrace to the by the Rt Hon. Secretary for the Home Department for the purpose of effecting social arrangements of such a country as Ireland, where thousands upon thousands similar objects in Ireland; the House shortly after passed a Drainage Bill, a Fishery of the population continually endured unexampled distress and destitution from Bill, a Public Works Bill, but he looked in vain for a Waste Lands Bill. The subject want of employment. There were in Ireland no less than six million two hundred and of Waste Lands in Ireland had, more or less, occupied the attention of Parliament ninety thousand acres of waste land, of which more than four million were capable for a long series of years. In 1809 a Commission was appointed to inquire into of reclamation. and report upon the Wastes and Bogs of Ireland, and that Commission made several very valuable Reports. In 1819, in 1830, and again in 1835, Committees on the state of Ireland had also taken much evidence, and in their reports given very useful suggestions upon the same subject; but up to 1843 scarcely any of these recommendations had been adopted. In that year an Act was passed called the Drainage Act, which, from various difficulties thrown in the way, had never been largely carried into effect. He believed that if, some ten years ago, effectual measures had been taken to reclaim waste lands in Ireland, a source of employment would have been opened to the people, which would have prevented that country from being reduced to its present unfortunate condition; at all events the misery of the people would have been alleviated, and distress and crime would not have been so general as now. The Land Tenure Commission, over which Lord Devon presided, reported last year that in their opinion a proper system for reclaiming the waste lands in Ireland would not only prove, in a national sense, highly advantageous, by affording employment to the people, but would also be a highly profitable investment for those who would undertake it. The time, he thought, had come when it was no longer safe nor desirable that the reclamation of the waste lands should be left to a spirit of improvement on the part of the landlords, who had hitherto so completely neglected Deep Mapping Lough Boora Sculpture Park IRELAND 1. ASKEATON CONTEMPORARY ARTS 2. CLARA BOG 3. KILCORMAC 4. LEITRIM SCULPTURE CENTRE 5. LOUGH BOORA PARKLAND 6. MONGAN BOG 7. NORTH MAYO SCULPTURE TRAIL 8. POLLAGH 9. TULLAMORE THE RIVER SHANNON DUBLIN Cover: BRO-04-BOG-08-P District No. 5. A map depicting a district of 44,501 acres of bog COUNTY that extends from Banagher along the Shannon river to Tullamore. The northern boundary OFFALY is the River Brosna, Cloghan and the Slieve Bloom Mountains the southern boundary. This was one of a suite of specialist maps produced under the auspices of The Commissioners for the Enquiry into Nature and Extent of the Bogs of Ireland and the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating Them. The Commission was established in 1810, all of the maps produced by 1812. The cartographic assessment of District No. 5 and subsequent drawings were by John Longfield and published in the ‘Second Report to the Commissioners’ in 1811. Photo Credit: Leslie Brown, Map Collector, 2019. (Digitised version). Figure 1: Turbary Traces. Leaving Raheenmore bog one of the six most significant raised bogs left in Offaly County, we were traveling south west toward Derrygrogan and Tullamore beyond when we discovered a huge cutaway bog complex bisected by that road. We followed ABERDEEN the track to the north where we discovered this contemporary ‘traditional yet mechanised turbary excavation’ a common use, sustained on the edges of that industrial harvest site. The sphagnum and heathers that make up the mantle that ‘raise’ the bog in relationship to rainfall, are still visible here. The rest of it is a broad flat expanse of cutaway brown peat land with drains cut decades before, sphagnum removed then the energy resource harvested by more SCOTLAND efficient methods and technologies. GLASGOW Photo Credit: Collins + Goto Studio, 2019. 10. SCOTTISH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP 11. PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS / W OR M Deep Mapping Lough Boora Sculpture Park Reclaim1 | Rehabilitate2 | Restore3 | Regenerate4 CHANGING VALUES: The boglands are for local extraction of peat for home heating needs. The boglands are an open-grazing resource for small landholders. The boglands are a national wasteland, to be drained and cultivated. The boglands are the material basis for a national energy policy. The boglands are a defence against biodiversity and habitat loss. The boglands are essential to carbon sequestration and climate mitigation. Tim Collins + Reiko Goto Collins 1 Freed from end-use, a state of waste made useful again. 2 Formerly: soil and hydrological mitigation for agriculture and forestry. Presently: rewetting for carbon sequestration and biological recovery. 3 Repairing and healing the soil, hydrology, ecology and the habitat complex. 4 Rejuvenation that achieves spontaneous and sustained natural expression. Deep Mapping Lough Boora Sculpture Park Tim Collins + Reiko Goto Edited by Gill Fremantle C O N T E N T S First published in Ireland, 2020. by Offaly County Council Áras an Chontae, Charleville Rd. Tullamore, County Offaly R35 F893 Foreword xi Acknowledgements xv All text copyright 2020 by Collins + Goto Studio Introduction 2 Historic Context 10 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or translated, in any form or by any means, electronic, Sculpture | Parklands 22 mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. Ecology | Context 52 This project was commissioned by Offaly County Council and Bord na Móna and funded by Offaly County Council, The Arts Council and Creative Art | Society | Environment 80 Ireland. Afterword 124 Appendix 126 Bibliography 138 List of Figures 144 xi FOREWORD Throughout this publication, artists Collins + Goto present a proposition for those who believe Ireland has a creative role to play in climate change. Implicit in this is inclusive leadership. This research was commissioned by Offaly County Council and Bord na Móna and funded by Offaly County Council, The Arts Council and Creative Ireland. It is essentially a conceptual review from an arts perspective, and this is to be welcomed. It brings the history of Lough Boora and its association with the arts sector into context alongside historical and industrial reports.
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