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Protected: The Cashel Man – Ireland’s Oldest Bog Body

  Index to 100 Objects of County Laois   In 2011, a Bord na Móna worker from Abbeyleix named Jason Phelan was harvesting peat in the Cashel Bog (Cúil na Móna), 5.5 km south of Portlaoise, when he realised his milling machine was chewing upon something unusual. He stopped the engine immediately and so saved […]