A major landslide event occurred at Pollatomish, County Mayo, Ireland in
September 2003, during a period of intense rainfall. It comprised about 30 significant
individual longitudinal planar type slides of peat and ...
The purpose of this paper is to present a review of peat landslide events in
Ireland since 2003, when two significant events occurred. Since 2003, there have been at
least thirteen such events. Several of these events ...
Recent peat failures in Ireland in the autumn of 2003 at Pollatomish, County Mayo
and Derrybrien, County Galway have focused attention on such events. However, peat
failures are not a recent phenomenon with possible ...
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