Day two of our road trip was heading out to Newgrange an Irish Passage tomb. It is a large mound, surrounded by 97 large kerb stones, with an entrance stone, a long passage that we could go into. It was built over 5000 years ago, before the pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge. They don't know a lot about why it was built and what everything meant. We couldn't take photos inside but the structure inside of the roof and the way the stones were layered where most impressive.
The carved entrance stone and the stones forming the door into the passage tomb.
A ring of stones like Stonehenge was placed around the mound by a different set of users
After our visit to Newgrange we called into an Irish Craft Shop which was on a sheep farm. The lady was spinning wool and had a number of little weaving looms set up so we chatted to her for quite a while and Amy brought a lovely wool and cashmere rap that the lady had spun and woven herself.
I think Amy should move to Ireland and take up working with Brian the Falcon man and Alison the lady at the Irish Craft shop spinning wool and learning to weave.
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