It's being called the 'end of an era:' In 2019, Bord Na Móna will begin to close 62 bogs across Ireland. Tom Donnellan, the chief executive of Bord Na Móna, recently announced that the company was to ...

The briquettes were not only once a convenient, inexpensive fuel for Irish people, they were also an industrial design icon ...

Irish peat bogs could play a big part in the fight against climate change, according to a university professor in Maynooth. Dr Lisa Orme, who works in the Irish Climate Research and Analysis Unit ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old man preserved in an Irish peat bog, marking the oldest European bog body ever found with skin still intact. The cool, waterlogged ...

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section B: Biological, Geological, and Chemical Science, Vol. 68 (1969), pp. 109-135 (28 pages) The microfungi isolated from various peat types occurring in an ...

ACCORDING to reports published in 1814 by the Bog Commissioners,Ireland possesses 3,028,000 acres of “peat bog,” of which 1,648,000 acres form “available” or so-called “red” bog land about 1,380,000 ...