Fields Project News Today

LINCOLNVILLE — Several volunteers helped with brush work on Cameron Mountain, Saturday, Dec 4, 2021. This was part of an ongoing effort to maintain the fields so they don’t get lost and keep the scenery. A good part of the work was volunteer, and...

An interpretive centre is planned for north Mayo where the worlds oldest stone age settlement has been discovered. Evidence of how our stone age ancestors lived and worked is being uncovered on a daily basis underneath blanket bog near Ballycastle, where a system of small walled fields is emerging.   Archaeologist Dr Seamus Caulfield from the Céide Fields Project who is in the process of excavating part of the site explains the time scale involved with a sod of turf he has just cut,  The bot...