S.I. No. 116/1994:

NATURE RESERVE (CUMMERAGH RIVER BOG) ESTABLISHMENT ORDER, 1994.

NATURE RESERVE (CUMMERAGH RIVER BOG) ESTABLISHMENT ORDER, 1994.

I, NOEL DEMPSEY, Minister of State at the Department of Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry, the Minister for the Marine, and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, being satisfied that the land specified in Article 2 of the following Order, being land to which section 15 of the Wildlife Act, 1976 (No. 39 of 1976), applies, includes a peatland ecosystem which is of scientific interest and that the said ecosystem is likely to benefit if measures are taken for its protection and that it is desirable to establish the said land as a nature reserve and that the proper management of the said land as a nature reserve would not be precluded by any interest of any other person in or over the said land, for the purpose of conserving the said ecosystem hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 15 of the said Act, the Wildlife (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 ( S.I. No. 156 of 1987 ), and the Finance (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 1993, (S.I. 101 of 1993), order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Nature Reserve (Cummeragh River Bog) Establishment Order, 1994.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 17th day of May, 1994.

2. It is hereby declared that the area of land comprising that part of Cummeragh River bog situated in the townlands of Garreiny and Oughtiv and the county of Kerry enclosed on the map annexed hereto within the inner margin of the black line and hatched thereon in black shall constitute and is hereby established as a nature reserve.

GIVEN under my hand, this 3rd day of May, 1994.

NOEL DEMPSEY,

Minister of State at the Department of

Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order recognises part of the lands known as Cummeragh River Bog in the townlands of Garreiny and Oughtiv, County Kerry as a nature reserve so that it can be managed in such a way as to ensure the conservation of the peatland ecosystem which it represents.

CUMMERAGH RIVER BOG NATURE RESERVE

Map referred to in Article 2.