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Patrick Pearse, in his Irish lament, Bean tSléibhe ag caoineadh a mic”, contains the line “Do labhair an naosc binn is an crotach glórach” - the sweet snipe and the noisy curlew called”. At that time, over one hundred years ago, the landscape was full of wetlands, marsh, turloughs and mudflats. As l