This is the main beam of an ancient plough. It is thought to be the oldest wooden plough found in Ireland, dating to 1050-1230AD. It was discovered in 1957 by James Taylor of Drumlee. After being ...

American readers might know this familiar seven-star collection as the Big Dipper, but talk to Irish friends and family, young or old, you’ll find they learned the Big Dipper as the Plough.

Small made his first experimentally shaped mouldboards from wood covered in thin metal before eventually making them in iron. This plough, vernacularly made, is very much in the Small's tradition ...