If, on the other hand, you're buying turf that comes in a pre-cut grid pattern, like PaverTurf Custom Pre-Cut Turf Designs, ...

Remote Irish boglands are now a battlefield where local turf-cutters are defying EU environmental restrictions, Diarmaid Fleming reports. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP.

Cutting turf by hand is a laborious task. A two-sided spade called a sleán is used to slice blocks of peat from the bog. 8. A bog in County Mayo.

Turf-cutting can exist hand-in-hand with the environment," he says. Deep-rooted tradition. Cutting turf is as much part of rural Irish life as farming - a staple heating fuel won from the land, ...