Amazing who you can meet on a bog loop walk in Abbeyleix #LoveBogs #ireland - what does the bog mean to you? Melissa Casey, an Australian who has found a home in Ireland's Midlands and a love for Irish bogs and macro photography shares her passion.

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Old Bog Road Co Offaly March 2026 This is "Old Bog Road Co Offaly March 2026" by Athena Media on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Old Bog Road - Co offaly - collecting visual stories of our changing bog landscape around the Midlands vimeo.com/1178384016/9.... #LoveBogs

Bog restoration could be 'secret weapon' against flooding Data from a bog restoration project in Co Wicklow suggests that some of the most effective flood prevention measures may be up in the hills.

Fascinating piece by @colmanos.bsky.social
@news.rte.ie on ways restored bogs can help us to mitigate and implement adaptation in climate action. Bogs can absorb water and carbon dioxide - and provide wonderful habitats for our native species #LoveBogs
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A wonderful day with the amazing Hugh Shepherd, a life-long nature lover and volunteer with Abbeyleix Bog Project - the community who are behind the conservation of the local bogland for the past 26 years. #LoveBogs @tocharstories.bsky.social

Happy World Frog Day 🐸🌍

Some fantastic images from submitted 'Hop To It' Frog survey submissions!

#lovebogs #frogs #worldfrogday

Countrywide Full Episode 07/03/2026 Countrywide Full Episode 07/03/2026

Thoughtful episode of Countrywide with @philipb-h.bsky.social exploring how different communities are involved in a changing relationship with peatlands - many of them people and places we're working with in @tocharstories.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #LoveBogs

The winter water monitoring and fresh water invertebrate surveys are now complete, finishing off this period with a trip to Girley Bog NHA💧 We were also lucky to identify multiple frog spawning spots while on the reserve 🐸

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Sharing our Past, Imagining our Future, Carbury Co Kildare Jan 29 2026 On Jan 29th Tóchar Stories cohosted with the Carbury community a community story event. This video montage captures the essence of the day where artist Luke…

Sharing our past, imagining our future, our @tocharstories.bsky.social storytelling day in Carbury, Kildare captured in a little video montage #LoveBogs
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We asked Ciaran Duggan, chair of Carbury Bogs Trust, for his wish for the future - and he connected nature conservation with community resilience and how people connecting to nature, through their local landscape and bogs, was a starting place. #LoveBogs @tocharstories.bsky.social

Lovely working with artists Luke Casserly and Shane Hynan in Carbury Kildare #Spéirghorm on our @tocharstories.bsky.social project #LoveBogs

Wonderful day in Tipperary in @scohaboybog.bsky.social with local Cloughjordan community leader Gearoid O'Foighil and getting an opportunity to witness the amazing transformation in this landscape through bog restoration work. A real credit to the community, public and private landowners. #LoveBogs

Lovely twinning of world wetlands day and St Brigid's day - Imbolc - a cloak of nature #loveBogs

Wonderful group in #Mountbellew Men's Shed - full of stories, songs and chats. Part of our community storytelling work with Tóchar Wetlands Restoration - under Just Transition Fund. #LoveBogs

Capturing memories of the bog with the Mountbellew Men’s Shed - Tóchar Wetlands by Helen Shaw – Tóchar Stories A song comes as easy as a story when you sit down with the […]

We've brought together some of the stories collected with the Mountbellew Men's Shed in Co Galway - wonderful group who shared songs, stories, memories and cups of tea with us! #LoveBogs @tocharstories.bsky.social
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Uncovered monastic remains at least 1,000 years old Remains uncovered at a monastic site in Co Offaly following Storm Éowyn last year have been carbon dated to the early Christian period.

What wonderful news for #Lemanaghan just a year after the storm that uncovered this archaeological, historic and cultural find- now dated 1,000 years old - and again in time for this year's community celebration of St Manchan #LoveBogs #offaly www.rte.ie/news/leinste...

How two Roscommon brothers uncovered Ireland’s Bronze Age wheel - Tóchar Wetlands Sean Mooney was just 8 years old when a big black car, he says, it looked like a hearse, pulled […]

Absolute love this story we did with Sean Mooney in Kilteevan for @tocharstories.bsky.social about how his late father and uncle found the oldest wheel technology in Ireland when they were working in their bog in 1969. #loveBogs #heritage #culture #StoriesAreUs
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Sean Mooney on finding Ireland's oldest wheel in a Co Roscommon bog In 1969 two brothers, Richard and John Mooney, uncovered a wooden wheel preserved in a bog, when they were out turf cutting in Co Roscommon. The brothers had found…

Ireland's oldest wheel technology - carbon dated 400 BC - is on display in @nmireland.bsky.social but do you know it was found in 1969 by two brothers cutting turf in a Co Roscommon bog? Here's the story #LoveBogs #Spéirghorm #Ireland

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Bog Bothy 2026: Open Call for Communities <p>IAF and 12th Field invite Expressions of Interest from communities who would like to host the Bog Bothy in 2026</p>

iaf.ie/news/bog-bot... Call out to communities who may want to take part in Bog Bothy Tour 2026 - expression of interest on hosting the Bog Bothy in your area. Share with those you think can benefit? #LoveBogs

Men's Shed Mountbellew

Tómas on guitar in the Men's Shed Mountbellew

We've been collecting stories, songs and memories in the Mountbellew Men's Shed, Galway - just beside the Galway Living Bog - a great group of men - with stories of growing up at the bog and working on it #LoveBogs

One word to describe the bog - what the children of Camcloon NS said to @katiesmirnova.bsky.social #Roscommon #LoveBogs

Ruth picked a Holly Blue in our bog butterfly and art creativity project #Kilteevan Roscommon and said it inspired her to get more into nature and be curious about bog wildlife. We ran the project in June and came back this month with postcards for the children of their artwork and stamps! #LoveBogs

St Anne's NS Tyrrellspass at the National Museum, meeting Minister Christopher O'Sullivan On November 12th the 5th Class of St Anne's NS, Tyrrellspass, Westmeath enjoyed a visit to the National Museum to explore the bog antiquities there, including…

Democracy, engagement and dialogue in action - as Midlands children get to have their own 'press' briefing with the Minister of State for nature, heritage and biodiversity #LoveBogs #Tóchar vimeo.com/1139605268?s...

Past, present and future collide for Tyrrellspass children at the National Museum - Tóchar Wetlands By Helen Shaw, Tóchar Stories curator “Is this place always free?” one of the children whispered when we were inside […]

When past, present and future collided for schoolchildren at the @nmireland.bsky.social #LoveBogs www.tocharwetlands.ie/community-st...

Men's Shed Mountbellew in song with Tómas and Michael This is "Men's Shed Mountbellew in song with Tómas and Michael" by Athena Media on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…

We love our job - and working with the Mountbellew Men's Shed in Galway at the Galway Living Bog ! #LoveBogs vimeo.com/1135673414?s...

Experiencing Samhain on Ballydangan Bog - Tóchar Wetlands Helen Shaw, Tóchar Stories Curator Just before the Halloween school break Tóchar Stories and the Ballydangan Bog Red Grouse Project […]

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Minister of State Christopher o Sullivan with the children of Tyrrellspass their teacher Laura Lynch, community volunteer leader Eugene Dunbar and Tóchar stories curator Helen Shaw

The Tyrrellspass primary school children also got a surprise when the biodiversity Minister Christopher O Sullivan joined them for a lunchtime outdoor briefing #LoveBogs

St Anne's 5th class in National Museum with teacher Laura Lynch and community leader Eugene Dunbar

National Museum guide Matthew Lester explaining the story of the bog body found in Croghan in the National Museum. The children's teaching assistant Dawn also in the picture

Wonderful day in @nmireland.bsky.social with Matthew Lester guiding our St Anne's Tyrrellspass Westmeath children. They were determined to see all three bog bodies, fascinated by Matthew's stories, and several of them already plotting a return family trip to the Museum. Do visit! #LoveBogs

Eugene Dunbar in Tyrrellspass, Westmeath is a force for nature! We've been working with him all year as part of #TócharStories and he mentored the local primary school for our art-bog project. Next week we take the children to the National Museum to see the bog treasures #LoveBogs

One Step from the Bog by Anne Gately Mercier A turf lorry, a father’s roots and becoming the proud owners of a Connemara bog

Beautiful piece by Anne Gately Mercier on her family roots in the boglands capturing so much of our changing times and traditions - from Sunday Miscellany #LoveBogs
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