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🐐 Native Breed Series – The Old Irish Goat
“The goat was the poor man’s cow.”
This week, we’re telling the story of Ireland’s only native goat — a five-thousand-year survivor that gave milk to the poor, parchment to monks, and placenames to our maps, before almost vanishing in the 20th century.
Join me, Liam Blake, as I trace its journey from Neolithic farms to nineteenth-century goat droves, to a modern DNA rescue mission on a Mayo hillside. This is history that eats gorse for breakfast.
🎧 Listen now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.