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Bog butter from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 1857. Bog butter is an ancient waxy substance found buried in peat bogs, particularly in Ireland and Scotland. Likely an old method of making and preserving butter, some tested lumps of bog butter were made of dairy, while others were made of ...
A display of early butter brands in the Cork Butter Museum. The Cork Butter Market building is situated in the Shandon area of the city, [1] with the building dating from 1849. [2] Shandon was the largest Shambles (open-air butcheries) in Ireland, and the Exchange was located within this commercial area.
One of the most notable antiquities is a firkin of bog butter which is over 100 years old. As Sligo has long been associated with W. B. Yeats , the museum has a number of exhibits dedicated to the writer, such as a replica of his 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and works from 1889 to 1936.
Irish Farmer Finds Near 60-Pound Slab Of Ancient Bog Butter On His Land By ‘Pure Luck’ This ancient discovery serves as a strong piece of evidence to support the part modern-day Friesland had ...
The Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC; Irish: Comhairle Chaomhnaithe Phortaigh na hÉireann) is a national charitable organisation established in 1982 to conserve and protect a representative sample of bogs in Ireland, [1] and to campaign on bog-related issues.
Archaeologists in Northern Ireland have uncovered well-preserved remains of a teenage boy dating back up to 2,500 years - including bones, skin and possibly a kidney - in a rare find that may shed ...
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. The find is on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
$9.99 at . Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter. Kerrygold butter comes straight from Ireland and is so delicious! It is special enough to use to slather on a charcuterie board or whip into a fluffy ...