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The Ice Cometh ... Again!
6th December 2016
I mentioned briefly a while back about the general topography of Togher before , during and after the last Ice Age. Research shows that Togher may have escaped the worst ravages of that particular epoch. However it had bore the brunt of a previous even nastier Ice Age which denuded the land down to its very bedrock. Togher would have been literally covered in heavy dense forests and towering mountains , all of which were annihilated and deposited all over the land once the ice melted. So it can be seen that during the newer Ice Age Togher would have been an arctic tundra - extremely cold and akin to an open coffin fridge being hemmed in in the near distance by magnificent Ice walls. Whats interesting is that a land bridge connected the southern portion of the island to Britain and it can be inferred that humans from both here and even maybe Spain made the journey in search of food. These people would undoubtedly have been dark skinned caused mainly by the cold weather and high radiation of the distant ice. Togher back then would have been vastly different to what it is now. Many shallow lakes would have been evident both on low lying land and much higher up. These over time would convert into peat bogs and wetlands and eventually meadows. Hundreds of streams would have peppered the land running through the dense forests which colonized the ground. Our ancestors would have migrated to the higher lands where trees were easier to cut down to provide both shelter and fuel and weapons to defend against the local predators which included wolves and perhaps even bears. They would have fished and hunted giant deer for food and used the skins as clothing. Of course once the climate heated up and the last ice age came to a close , the terrain endured savage changes which saw it washed and worn away to what we see today. All the evidence is around us and beneath us. Our forefathers had much hardship to overcome but survived. The bad news is that Ice Ages generally have a 10,000 year warm interlude before everything kicks off again. Ours is nearly up!
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