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Tollund Man, Denmark, 4th century BC Gallagh Man, Ireland, c. 470–120 BC. A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BC and the Second World War. [1]
In October 1954, an attempted IRA raid on the barracks to capture weapons failed, with five soldiers and two IRA men injured. Eight men were arrested and convicted, with sentences of 10–12 years imprisonment. [6] The base was the subject of a botched proxy bomb attack on 24 October 1990, when the main charge of the bomb failed to explode. [7]
The death of the High King of Ireland, Tigernmas, & 4,000 of his followers in the Seventh Plague of Ireland while worshipping Crom Cruaich on 31 October (Samhain, Halloween), 1413 B.C. His grave there is marked by a standing stone. [11] The Battle of Tuaim Drecain in 1342 BC by the High King Eochaid Faebar Glas. [12]
Oldcroghan Man in the National Museum of Ireland Oldcroghan Man on display in the National Museum of Ireland. Old Croghan Man (Seanfhear Chruacháin in Irish) is a well-preserved Irish Iron Age bog body found in June 2003. The remains are named after Croghan Hill, north of Daingean, County Offaly, near where the body was found.
Gallagh Man is the name given to a preserved Iron Age bog body found in County Galway, Ireland, in 1821. The remains date to c. 470–120 BC , and are of a six-foot (1.8 m) tall, healthy male with dark and reddish hair, who is estimated to have been about 25 years old at the time of death.
The area's unusual border was ascribed in the 1920s to "some long forgotten feud between petty kings". [3] Drummully ED lies in the province of Ulster near the tripoint of three counties, Monaghan, Fermanagh, and Cavan, which were created in the 1580s from three medieval Gaelic lordships: respectively Airgíalla (McMahon's country), Fear Manach (Maguire's country) and East Breifne (O'Reilly's ...
Located between the base of the penis and the rectum, the prostate is a walnut-sized gland that plays a role in the production of semen, according to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. The more you know!
Balbriggan was the location of the 19th century Smith's Stocking Mill, which made stockings as well as men's "Long-Johns" called Balbriggans. These are often mentioned in John Wayne films – 'he put his balbriggans on' – and both Queen Victoria and the Czarina of Russia also wore "Balbriggans". [ 6 ]