Peat bogs may not be unique to Ireland, but their place in the Irish cultural imagination certainly is. Against the drama of our mountains, and of the waves shaping our rugged shores, peat bogs ...

The unique environment of peat bogs — low oxygen ... Archaeologists Uncover Iron Age Remains In A Northern Irish Bog In ...

For countless centuries Irish peat land (bog land) has covered much of rural Ireland and every farmer and almost every family had their own turf bank. Irish Turf was and still is, dug from the ...

Healthy peatlands can help tackle climate change, reduce flood risk, improve water quality and support rare wildlife.

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...