Greenagho’s Mosses
At this point in the last glacial cycle, Ireland was moving towards the much more extensive ice cover that developed later. The most recent British–Irish Ice Sheet reconstructions model substantial growth after about 31,000 years ago and an Ireland almost wholly ice-covered by around 28,000 years ago. That does not allow a simple picture for c. 33,900 calibrated years before present. Conditions varied between regions, seasons and short climatic phases, while the exact timing of ice advance remains an active research question. The island was not yet the uniformly ice-dominated terrain of the later glacial maximum, but neither was it a hospitable temperate landscape.