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Where Ireland's First Farmers Left Their Mark Beneath Ancient Bog

The revolutionary moment that would transform our understanding of European prehistoric agriculture occurred in the 1930s when Patrick Caulfield, a local schoolteacher cutting turf in the bog lands surrounding Belderrig (Béal Dearg - pronounced "BALE-darrig"), noticed mysterio…

Belderrig is a small place in County Mayo. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.