How a manuscript found in an Irish peat bog was saved Restorers are hoping to separate the pages of the ninth-century psalter and recover some of the ancient text By Martin Bailey | Posted 18 December 2006 Conservators are unravelling the congealed pages LONDON. An astonishing discovery in an Irish bog is posing an unusual conservation challenge. A chance find by a peat cutter last summer in County Tipperary, southern Ireland, turned out to be a psalter, which has been dated to around 800 AD. The discovery has been described as the Irish equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls. National...