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Exploring beautiful Ballina from the Ice House Exploring beautiful Ballina from the Ice House There is more to Mayo than Croagh Patrick, writes Aisling O’Toole, who discovered a town filled with charm in Ballina. Aisling O’Toole Facebook Comments There is more to Mayo than Croagh Patrick, writes Aisling O’Toole, who discovered a town filled with charm in Ballina. The town of Ballina is often overshadowed by its showier neighbor Westport, after all, it’s expected that visitors would want to visit the town that houses ‘The Reek’. But what they’re missi...

By D.J. Garrity, Contributor Five thousand years ago, on the windswept edge of Western Europe, near the village of Ballycastle, halfway between Benwee Head and Killala Bay, a community of farmers, cattlemen, crafters of wood and stone, men and women of passionate beliefs were engaged in an organic and spiritual existence alongside the daunting, relentless sea cliffs of North Mayo. The primeval forest of Ireland was slowly and meticulously cleared with polished stone axes, and a quarter million tons of fieldstone were replaced by barley, wheat and cattle hemmed in by neatly arranged walls of l...

An interpretive centre is planned for north Mayo where the world's 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 bottom...grew at about the time St Patrick was in Ireland. The top...about the time that Christopher C...