A Co Offaly photographer is revealing the hidden beauty of the raised bogs and wet woodlands of the Irish midlands. Tina Claffey uses a macro lens to capture the flora and fauna of bogs in ...

Imagine standing in the heart of an Irish bog, the ground springy beneath your feet, wrapped in a hush broken only by the call of a curlew or the soft buzz of insects. Once thought of as ...

Artefacts and information gathered from more than 40 excavations of a Co Offaly bog have been detailed in a recently published book, The Story of Lemanaghan - The Archaeology of an Irish Bog.

Bog bodies: More than 80 bog bodies have been found here since 1750. Most were reburied without study or were badly damaged. The majority are late-medieval or modern.

The word 'bog' is derived from the Irish word bogarch, which means 'soft'.Peat bog covers 17% of Ireland's surface, which gives us the third-highest proportion of peatland in the world, after ...

A 1,200-year-old manuscript that was unearthed in a bog in Tipperary in 2006 has become one of Ireland's most treasured artifacts.

A 2,325-year-old bog butter weighing almost 30 pounds, alongside the keg it was found in. National Museum of Ireland Within Ireland’s peat bogs lurk many archaeological treasures. Everything ...

An Irish famer unearthed a spectacular ancient find from his property by "pure luck." While working on his land, he saw a strange object that turned out to be a slab of bog butter.

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 ...

Bog butter chunks are usually around the size of a mixing bowl. Harvey explained, but this one was between 22 kg and 25 kg (around 48 and 55 lbs.) in weight, according to The Irish Examiner.