"If green is the color of Ireland, and a soft day the touch, and poteen the taste, and harp music the sound, then a turf fire ...

Outside the Midlands, most peatlands in Ireland, especially in the West, are described as blanket bog. They form in areas ...

A closer look at Hynan’s captions reveal that burning turf in power stations ceased as recently as 2023. Through this, an interesting shift takes place. The bog “is a sort of coiled energy ...

Two helicopters were drafted in to assist in extinguishing a fire that broke out on bogland between Ballymore and Rosemount ...

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 ...