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Article: Heat with peat!
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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What if you have no wood?
This summer we had hoped to fill up our oil tank to run our winter heating on, but the price of crude oil has inflated beyond our purse yet again. So a few weeks ago back we went to the "moss" to turn and stack our cut of peat fuel. Wood heat is not an option here in Northern Ireland, where there is a conspicuous lack of trees.
The Slievenanee Mountains in the Glens of Antrim are rich in peat. For generations, local families have had peat cutting rights. However, such ideas are largely a thing of the past. The many stone crofter houses in the mountains sit empty in favour of more modern bungalows nearer the conveniences of the ...