Revealed: Images show long-lasting damage from Dingle gorse fires

Images show red scarring of the land near Inch beach as it looks from space

Images of scarred land near Inch beach in Kerry show the damage caused weeks after a gorse fire  in January.

Stark imagery of the damage left behind by gorse fires can be seen in the aftermath of a blaze in the Dingle Peninsula, with scarring of the land remaining for weeks afterwards.

Imagery supplied by the Fire, Land and Atmospheric Remote Sensing of Emissions (Flares) project at University College Cork (UCC) show red scarring of the land near Inch beach as it looks from space.