A strange object with a “cheesy” smell turned out to be an ancient discovery, one of the largest of its kind in Ireland.

A Donegal farmer made a historic find unearthing a 22kg slab of bog butter, believed to be one of the largest finds of its ...

While working on his farm in Donegal, Ireland, a farmer named Micheál Boyle happened to dig up an ancient chunk of butter.

Have you ever tried making your own bog butter? Bog butter in Ireland is a tradition that dates back many centuries but could be just as useful today as it was back then. Researchers believe that ...

Scéal: preserved in peat for thousands of years, bog butter remains one of the most enigmatic of all archaeological finds When we consider the central role that butter plays in the modern Irish ...

A Co Donegal farmer recently became one of the latest people to discover ‘bog butter’ on his land. The substance, which is often white-yellowish in colour and waxy in texture, has been found ...

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...

A farmer in Co Donegal has unearthed what may be one of the largest ancient slabs of bog butter ever discovered on the island of Ireland. The ancient butter was discovered by accident while a site ...

For everyone who needs it. BOG BUTTER IS among some of the 2,000 archaeological items handed into the National Museum of Ireland in the past year. Butter was sometimes buried in a bog to preserve ...

Boyle was conducting work on his farm in County Donegal, when he found what turned out to be an ancient slab of bog butter. In ancient times, dairy or animal fat was buried in bogs for ...