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145 28.5.44, afternoon, which was very warm & not a breath of wind - almost sultry. At 4.20 set off past ruins of Ballinacourty House by field N. of stables & up through woods to top of Slieve-na-muck ridge, ca. 1200 ft. Collected a few insects on way up & on way down in crossing the big boundary ditch at top of wood stumbled on a track made by the Wood Ant (Formica rufa) of which I had been talking all afternoon. As we were already very late for tea had not time to locate nest, but took a few very large specimens & a couple of extremely small ones (all ☿☿ of course!) The colony would be difficult to re-locate as the woods have been so much torn about by the despoilers, but it is roughly in line with the second row of trees west of the old garden behind stables & Ballinacourty House. If one stands at this line of trees with one's back to Galtyore & looks up at the rocky crag on top of Slieve-na-muck ridge (not the summit!), the line would roughly pass the colony, which is beside a large Holly tree on the boundary fence The only Holly at this place! AWS 6.6.44. 146. 28.8.44, aft. cont. Ballinacourty Woods, ST., cont. Also in line from row of trees to crags on ridge as a deep gully in the woods (made by a stream in flood time) & above upper track through roads in an oak from which 5 main branches have been cut, leaving it standing 8 or 10 feet high like a scarecrow & just below colony is an extensive scrub of almost pure birch. [[image]] [[labels on image]] Crag Slieve na-muck ridge Heath Ditch Holly F. rufa track! Woods [[?]] Woods Cut down oak Upper track through woods deep gully lower track. Woods Woods Big Field Avenue [[<-]] To Lisvaranane 2nd row of trees in line with Galtymore 1st row of trees Old Avenue Garden Stables