{"id":844089,"date":"2026-09-11T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844089\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:20:09","slug":"eagles-and-wolves-the-long-lost-animals-that-live-on-in-irish-place-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844089\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Ray \u00d3 Foghl\u00fa, head of partnerships and development at Hometree, a nature restoration charity in Ireland, says place names are not &#8220;instructions&#8221; to recreate the past: &#8220;Their real value is in showing us what a landscape has been capable of.&#8221; Ecologists can then test locations for their rewilding potential. Equally, somewhere with no hint of trees or woods in its name could actually be a perfect site, today, for a tree-planting project, for example. Nic Craith describes place names as &#8220;a starting point&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ray \u00d3 Foghl\u00fa, head of partnerships and development at Hometree, a nature restoration charity in Ireland, says place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-844089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}