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 Colombus was sailing for America.