A strange object with a “cheesy” smell turned out to be an ancient discovery, one of the largest of its kind in Ireland. Oftentimes, ancient discoveries come out of archaeological sites, but ...

Ireland's peat bogs have heated Irish homes for centuries ... radiocarbon-dated to be 8,600 years old – a relic of ancient forest subsumed and preserved by bog. Organic matter that would ...

Growing up amid the rural peat bogs of Ireland’s Midlands, Luke Casserly says, he found the landscape “boring — a sort of nothingness I wanted to move away from, a sense that there was ...

REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne A stack of dried turf is seen on the edge of Gowlan East Bog, an in-use blanket bogland, in Derryrush, Ireland, April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne “The people ...

“They sequester carbon five times as efficiently as forest,” said Matthijs Schouten, a Dutch ecologist who studies Ireland’s bogs. “So cutting bogs for fuel is not a very wise thing to do.

In 1936, in a piece published in the literary magazine Ireland To-Day ... acidic blanket bog – not ideal for trees – the dream of turning the west into a forest could have quickly descended ...

"It's now our only intact Northern Irish Iron Age bog body," Alastair Ruffell of ... chief executive of the Forest Service—which is part of DAERA—said in a press release.

In ancient times, dairy or animal fat was buried in bogs for preservation or put in a wooden container as an offering to gods or spirits, according to The Irish News. The slab of bog butter on ...