Finn Mac Cool, or Fionn mac Cumhaill, was reputed to have built a stronghold at the Hill of Allen, on the edge of the Bog of Allen, in what was then Leinster.

The Bog of Allen is a large bog that extends across 958 km2 and into County Kildare, County Meath, County Offaly, County Laois, and County Westmeath.

Industrial milled peat production in a section of the Bog of Allen in the Irish Midlands.

Bord na Móna peat-harvesting in the Bog of Allen

He was once described by Fine Gael politician John Kelly as " like a lighthouse in the Bog of Allen, brilliant but useless ".

Croghan Hill rises from the Bog of Allen and is located in northern Offaly.

There are many large bogs in Offaly including the Bog of Allen, Clara bog, Boora bog and Raheenmore Bog which are spread out across the county with the Bog of Allen extending into four other counties.

Offaly has extensive bogland, particularly in the northern parts of the county, that forms part of the Bog of Allen.

By 1759 he reported that in the Bog of Allen and of canal from the River Liffey near Sallins towards Dublin were complete.

In 1772 the Grand Canal Company was established by a group of noblemen and merchants, including public subscription, to ensure the future of the canal and to tackle the biggest barrier to the canal, the Bog of Allen.

Getting across the Bog of Allen took more than five years of struggle under the guidance of Jessop, who attempted to use walls of clay to support the walls of the canal.

He also drove the canal across the great Bog of Allen, a feat comparable with George Stephenson ’ s crossing of the Chat Moss bog with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Extensive bogland is exploited in County Offaly, County Longford and County Westmeath, mainly the Bog of Allen.

Bord na Móna milled peat harvesting in the Bog of Allen

Newbridge / An Droichead Nua is bounded by the Curragh Plains to the west, Pollardstown Fen and the Bog of Allen and Moulds Bog to the north west.

The Bog of Allen ( Móin Alúine in Irish ) is a large raised bog in the centre of Ireland between the rivers Liffey and Shannon.

The peatlands of the Bog of Allen contain a valuable part of the archaeological record.

In many parts of the Bog of Allen industrial milling has uncovered archaeological remains such as trackways.

Volo Bog, the first purchase of the Illinois Nature Conservancy, is located here.

Cyrus Mark, the first president of the Illinois Nature Conservancy spearheaded the effort to purchase Volo Bog for preservation.

* Celery Bog Nature Area and Lilly Nature Center Celery Bog Nature Area

Volo Bog in northern Illinois was the first purchase of the Illinois Nature Conservancy thanks to the fundraising efforts of Cyrus Mark, the first president of the Illinois Nature Conservancy.

* Wauconda Bog Nature Preserve, a tamarack bog and a National Natural Landmark located in Wauconda, Illinois

The Trust also manages Moseley Bog and has a close involvement with reserves such as Moorcroft Wood Local Nature Reserve and Hill Hook Local Nature Reserve.

Having been for many years in Dublin city centre, the Council's headquarters are currently located at the Bog of Allen Nature Centre, Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare.

Other fundraising methods include special appeals, sale of symbolic share certificates in Irish bogs, a Save the Bogs card and gift catalogue, raffles, open days and sales of work, visits to the Bog of Allen Nature Centre.

The one hectare Danson Park Bog Garden is a Local Nature Reserve.

Before the establishment of the Burns Bog Ecological Reserve in 2004, only of the bog were protected as the Delta Nature Reserve.

* Flatiron Lake Bog preserve ( a kettle hole bog formed about 12, 000 years ago ; maintained by The Nature Conservancy )

In 1993 FBB started the process of declaring Ballynahone Bog a National Nature Reserve.

A more complete list of major attractions along the Ring of Kerry includes: Gap of Dunloe, Bog Village, Rossbeigh Beach, Cahersiveen Heritage Centre, Derrynane House, Skellig Experience, Staigue Fort, Kenmare Lace, Moll's Gap, Ladies View, Torc Waterfall, Muckross House, The Blue Pool, Ross Castle, Ogham Stones, St Mary ’ s Cathedral, Muckross Abbey, Franciscan Friary, Kellegy Church, O ’ Connell Memorial Church, Sneem Church and Cemetery, Skellig Michael, Beehive Cells and the Stone Pillars marking an important grave.

One, titled The Beast of the Black Bog Tarn, was set in a ( miniature ) haunted house.

There, the sandy, open strip on which the Romans could march easily was constricted by the hill, so that there was a gap of only about 100 m between the woods and the swampland at the edge of the Great Bog.

Jefferson concurred, and while the " grand avenue " was little more than a wide dirt road ridiculed as " The Great Serbonian Bog ", he planted it with rows of fast-growing Lombardy poplars.

" In fact, it was through his extensive studies at the township's Cedar Bog Lake that the seminal ecology researcher Raymond Lindeman first laid the groundwork for what was to become the modern science of ecosystem ecology.

The well known resistance song " Peat Bog Soldiers " was composed by political prisoners at one of these camps.

The first ever was held at Moseley Bog in Birmingham, England in 1984, by the Urban Wildlife Trust.

" The name was probably given during medieval times to the then swampy area by the nuns of Gimsøy Abbey, who went here to collect the shrub pors (" Bog Myrtle "), and the Norwegian word grunn meaning " ground ".

The land was part of Shepardsfield Plantation ( also called Bog Brook Plantation ), granted on March 8, 1777 by the Massachusetts General Court to Alexander Shepard, Jr. of Newton, Massachusetts.

He was also responsible for the construction of railways across rural mid Wales including the very difficult crossing of Tregaron Bog in the construction of the line between Lampeter and Aberystwyth in 1866.

In the mid-19th century, watercress was grown at Moor Farm, known locally as " The Bog ", ( now Low Farm ) by Richard Whiting Bradbery, the son of William Bradbery, the first British watercress pioneer who had a large cress farm at West Hyde, Hertfordshire.

Bog iron was mined from bogs, streams, and waterways, and was worked in furnaces at Batsto, Lake Atsion, Ferrago, Hanover, and several other locations.

The lake was held back by a dam of glacial sediment in Totowa that slowly eroded until the surface of the lake fell to its present-day level, leaving behind the Hatfield Swamp, Black Meadows, Great Piece Meadows, and Bog and Vly Meadows.

The town was also known as an eisteddfod site, and is the site of both the World Bog Snorkelling Championships and the annual Man versus Horse Marathon, as well as many other annual events.

Part of the Blackwater bog system was also used for tourist trains-the Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway ( colloquially the " Bog Train ") for about 12 years.

Contemporary Irish are more tuned to their heritage, as can be seen in the example of the Irish Bog Psalter, which was discovered and reported by an alert machine operator in July 2006.

The nearby Moseley Bog ( now a nature reserve ) was probably the inspiration for the Old Forest-and the hill on which Spring Hill College stands, which even today, according to local legend, is criss-crossed with secret tunnels, could easily have become Tolkien's Bag End.

* The Freaks like the Disgustings only seven members were made instead of eight and lived down the drain, they were Chief Bug, Scout Blink, Blurp, Blarf, Boik, Burg and Bog and were mostly hideously deformed in comparison to their fellows Blarf was a Vampire and Bog was very similar to the Frankenstein's monster.