A giant mushroom found this week on the Great Western Greenway in Mulranny, Co. Mayo
Ciara Galvin, of Mayo News, writes:
The mushroom measuring 20cm by 23cm in diameter and weighing 189 grams was found by local doctor Jerry Cowley behind St Brendan’s Unit in Mulranny. Speaking to The Mayo News after his find on Monday, Dr Cowley said on first inspection he thought the funghi was a ‘large flat rock’…
Dr [Matthew] Jebb [of the Botanical Gardens in Dublin] said he could not find any evidence of a ‘record’ mushroom size for Ireland and told Dr Cowley that he could ‘unofficially claim that mantle’. The mushroom is currently in a large fridge at the doctor’s practice.
Dr Cowley is currently the chairman of the Great Western Greenway Landowner’s Committee, which has called on the Government to include the popular Greenway route where the mammoth mushroom was found, on the National Walks Scheme.
The inclusion would mean that landowners on the route would receive an annual renumeration for maintaining the walks for the public to use. The chairman sees the latest find on the popular route as ‘a sign that the Lord God Himself wants Michael Ring to meet with the committee and progress the case’.
SHROOMS SHROOMS SHROOMS
‘That is one hell of a big mushroom’ (Mayo News)
The photo makes it look bigger than it is. 23cm is really not that big.
Ok it is.
fancy that. Naming a mushroom after a dolphin
It might have grown even bigger, had Dr Cowley not reefed the bloody thing out of the ground.
Yum!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkgs5KXqZ2Q
Do you play that out loud on your phone while on the bus?
Only when I’m sitting behind you you big grumpbox
:)
I don’t do ‘audio’ Broadsheet. I take it from your comment that the above is not kind on the ear?
It is kind and funny. There’s a goat.
MushROOMY more like!
Found a giant puffball once and it fed an entire village.
Does the doc have a better photo than this? Seems photography and hand-writing are not their skill set.
The Lord God himself huh?
Just who the ûck do these Mayhoo blueshirts think they are?
Who the hell’s ‘Michael Ring’? Sounds like a fun-guy.
A little bit confused…The thumbnail for this article on tablet is Trump as a turd….?
Former T.D. Jerry Cowley no less.
“Annual renumeration”
Enda comes and impregnates the locals.
The Lord God – ah that old chestnut.
I ONLY PICK LIBERTY CAPS. THE MUSHIE SEASON IS STARTING NOW – ANY LOVELY PSYCHEDELIC MUSHIES ON THE GREENWAY?
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