What is Bog Oak?

After the Ice Age retreated from Ireland, there were thousands of years where Ireland became completely covered by rich oak and pine forest - a landscape that thrived for five thousand years, before the climate shifted to favour peat-growing plants which eventually took over.The oak forests collapsed into the peat bogs; deprived of oxygen and in the particular anaerobic and acidic conditions of Irish bog, the trees were preserved from decay over thousands of years, absorbing the tannins in the earth around it and turning darker. The bog oak we use represents the first step in the wood’s fossilisation.