The Irish Peatland Society is organising a series of field trips over two days on 10th and 11th October 2023 to explore the history, heritage and carbon stock contained within the peat of midland Irish peatlands.

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Starting and finishing in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, the programme includes visits to five peatland and peatland-related sites.

 

The event will include the prehistoric Iron Age oak trackway on peatland at Corlea in Co. Longford; the Celtic Roots bog oak studio in Co. Westmeath; a practical demonstration of how to calculate the carbon stocks present in bog peat from a peat core taken on site at Clonydonnin Bog Co. Westmeath; a visit to Lemanaghan Bog in Co. Offaly, said to be the location of the highest density of peatland archaeological sites in the world; and a trip to Mongan Bog (also Co. Offaly) that is one of the most intact midland raised bogs in Ireland and is included in the internationally renowned Clonmacnoise Heritage Zone.