About ten thousand years ago, the ice age started retreating from Ireland. It left behind a land in which birch, lichen and willow grew. After another few thousand years, a forest of oak and pine covered the whole of Ireland. These great blankets of forest lasted five thousand years, before eventually succumbing to the growth of peat forming plants. They were eventually covered completely within the peat swamps. This period signaled the beginning of the Irish bog. There is nothing more uniquely Irish than bog oak. Bogs evolved and developed to a depth of several meters over thousands of years, concealing and preserving the remnants of these once great oak and pine woodlands

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