Feedback request: Carex canescens (1133991)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #390366

Taxon:	Carex canescens L.
Other name:	Cyperaceae: Carex curta Gooden. ("White Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Carex canescens L.
Collected by:	David Moore
Collection date:	6/1856
Locality:	Ireland, VCH39 Co. Antrim, Lough Neagh, J17, In a boggy wood by the side of Lough Neagh at Salchin 'Co Derry' [actually Co Antrim, see message board]
communicated:	Sir William Turner Thiselton Dyer
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1133991
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by siandef on 9^th April 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
15/09/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: IE VCH40 Jalckin, side of Lough Neaph
15/09/2015	oldnick	Added locality: IE Lough Neagh, 'In a boggy wood by the side of Lough Neagh at Salchin Co Derry'
15/09/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: IE Lough Neagh, 'In a boggy wood by the side of Lough Neagh at Salchin Co Derry'
15/09/2015	oldnick	Added locality: IE VCH39 Lough Neagh, In a boggy wood by the side of Lough Neagh at Salchin 'Co Derry' [actually Co Antrim, see message board] J17 (place)
16/02/2016	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb Sir William Turner Thiselton Dyer
16/02/2016	chrisu	Added provenance: comm Sir William Turner Thiselton Dyer

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oldnick wrote

Lough Neagh as I know it isn't near Co Derry? Jalckin? Salchin?

[Roger Horton]

There is a stretch of the coast of Lough Neagh of about 10km, from just west of Toome to the mouth of the Ballinderry River, (grid ref. H98) which lies in County Derry, although I cannot locate the place name. There is a Salterstown Castle built by the Salters' Company in 1615, in the area called the 'Manor of Sal'.

[David Price]

"Co. Derry" appears to be Moore's error.

References in Cybele Hibernica are to "a place on the shores of L. Neagh called the Selchin in the Parish of Glenavy."

Glenavy is in Co Antrim, near Crumlin.

[Roger Horton]

If this LINK works it should show Glenavy and point where the historic Irish OS 6" map has Selshan Harbour.

[David Price]

Well done! Note the proximity to Ballinderry which was probably at the root of the error.

[oldnick]

excellent and yes the map link works