DUNDONALD, NORTHERN IRELAND—A rare archaeological site at Ballymaglaff that had yielded more than 2,000 pieces of struck flint from the Mesolithic period has been badly damaged by the construction of ...

Some snails in Ireland and the Pyrenees are genetically almost identical, perhaps because they were carried across the Atlantic during an 8000-year-old human migration. The snail genetics tie in with ...

Snails aren’t known for their ability to get around. But then there’s the strange case of Ireland’s grove snails, Cepaea nemoralis, a common European land species. Geneticists from the University of ...

Evidence that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Ireland may have harmed their health by under-cooking their fish has been uncovered by researchers examining samples from a 7,500-year-old lakeside site in ...

MAP: OS of Ireland 1:50,000 Discovery 54; downloadable map/instructions at discoverireland.ie/walking. TRAVEL: Rail (irishrail.ie): Tullamore (12 miles). Road: N52 (Tullamore-Birr) to Kilcormac; ...

The mute swan came in low over Lough Boora and slivered its reflection into a million shards as it ploughed a furrow along the water. It was a dramatic image to start our walk through the boglands of ...