EPISODE · Nov 13, 2025 · 29 MIN
Episode 1: Murder Most Foul
from The Discovery Series: The Bog Bodies · host Discoverireland.ie
Two bodies emerge from the bog – their skin preserved, their secrets intact.In this first episode, travel journalist Fionn Davenport retraces the extraordinary discoveries at Croghan Hill in Offaly and Ballivor in Meath, where two Iron Age men were pulled from the peat after 2,500 years. With experts Amanda Pedlow and Noel French, he pieces together those first startling details – the manicured nails, the carefully styled hair, the brutal wounds – that revealed these were no ordinary burials.Each clue brings us closer to understanding who these men were, and why they were chosen for sacrifice. Explore more of Ireland’s ancient past, from the Neolithic to the early Christian era, at discoverireland.ie
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Two bodies emerge from the bog – their skin preserved, their secrets intact. In this first episode, travel journalist Fionn Davenport retraces the extraordinary discoveries at Croghan Hill in Offaly and Ballivor in Meath, where two Iron Age men were pulled from the peat after 2,500 years. With experts Amanda Pedlow and Noel French, he pieces together those first startling details – the manicured nails, the carefully styled hair, the brutal wounds – that revealed these were no ordinary burials...
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