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Metadata

Conservation Status

Not extinct

Last Record

The 1850s

Place of Breeding

Ireland

Variety

Blackface

Synonym

Mayo Blackface | Connemara | Connemara Blackface

Extinction Reason

Absorbed by the Scottish Blackface

References

Joyce, J., & Joyce, M.-A. (n.d.). Sheep & Rams. Joyce Country Sheepdogs. http://www.joycecountrysheepdogs.ie/sheep.html

Noonan, J., & Joyce, J. (2015). Blackface Sheep - The Breed. The Mayo Blackface Group. http://mayoblackface.com/breed.html

Porter, V., & Mason, I. L. (2002). Mason’s World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties (5th ed.). Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: CABI Publishing.

Porter, V., Alderson, L., Hall, S. J. G., & Sponenberg, D. P. (2016). Mason’s World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding: 2 Volume Pack (1st ed.). Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: CABI.