Stone fences once crisscrossed the hilly landscape of western Sheboygan County, dividing farm fields into manageable sizes and ridding the arable land of its limestone litter left by the last glacier.

Some stone fences in Ireland and other countries date back more than 5,000 years. Many of the stone walls were built with small holes in the top half to slow the speed of the wind across the open ...

County Clare, Ireland, is otherworldly: hilly, lush green paddocks (pastures) separated by centuries-old stone fences and dotted with small herds of cows, horses and donkeys. And sheep ...

To the Knight family, the stone foundations of barns and the fences surrounding them recall the pride and skill of those who settled here as farmers. If you’ve traveled to Scotland and Ireland ...

People in Ireland are tentatively returning to shops ... kissing the famous Blarney Stone in order to regain the “gift of the gab.” Legend has it that planting one’s lips on the limestone ...