“Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,700 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa,” wrote Ernest Hemingway. “Close to the western summit, there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was doing at that altitude.”

The Irish Examiner’s Colm O’Connor discovers why hundreds of children were buried in an ancient ring fort in West Clare.