Often the best feeling about traveling and exploring Ireland, for tourists and natives alike, is that sense of being surrounded by the ancient and being transported back through time.The Ceide Fields, in County Mayo, are one of Ireland's best-kept travel secrets.
For centuries, the Irish have used peat from bogs to fuel the home fires. Stories of families coming together to bring home "the turf", as peat is called in Ireland, evoke idyllic memories of a poorer but simpler life on the land. But now the Irish government, in the name of fighting climate change, conserving habitat and improving air quality, is moving to restrict the use of peat and finding that it is not easy.