Irish Country life history
From the monthly archives: July 2011
The whole business of agriculture in the countryside is founded upon the soil; for the soil the farmer pays a rent, and upon his skill in making use of its inherent capacity depends the return he gets for his crops. Of course rent or capital cost of land is also dependent on the proximity of [...]
Human History
World Human history is reputed to have taken off around 50,000 years ago. The earliest definite signs of this Great Leap Forward come from East African sites with standardized stone tools and the first preserved jewelry (ostrich-shell beads). Similar developments soon appear in the Middle East and in south-eastern Europe, [...]
Although Precambian rocks dating back to more than 2000 million years have been identified in coastal sections at Rosslare and Kilmore Quay in Wexford, the most extensive older rock formations in the country are represented by those of the lower Palaeozoic and the youngest (60 million years ago) by those of the [...]
A set of footprints from a four-legged creature dated at about 385 million years old were found on the shoreline of this County Kerry island. The instant you see them you are filled with curiosity about the animal that made them and the world it lived in. At that time early amphibians [...]
Wherever the Anglo-Normans found soils to their taste, or a strategic point worth defending they erected an earthen mote, later replaced by a castle in places of special importance.
An artist’s impression of the Giant Deer and young, which the first people who came to Ireland (The Mesolithic People) ~ 7,000BC. Though huge the antlers were frail and for show rather than combat. Giant Irish Deer is believed to have roamed the lowlands of central and eastern Ireland, weighing up to [...]
TAKE a look at the “new” map of Ireland, the image which shows we own quite a bit more of the sea floor than previously thought. The final results of a seabed survey, carried out by the Marine Institute and the Geological Survey of Ireland, are still being finalised, but Ireland can [...]
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