These past few days have been grand. Friday morning came around and my very first field around Ireland was beginning at 9 o’clock sharp. We as in all the American students piled into the bus for the first stop which was The Browneshill Dolmen and killeshin Romanesque doorway.
(whats left of the church and the doorway)
The door was amazingly designed and it had for different layers to it and also on each layer was different designs in the stone itself. The church that the door led into was built in the 5th century and was still around until about 1703 when it was destroyed.
After we spent time exploring and looking through the window out into the country our next stop on the magical journey back into time was The Dancing Boards where the miners met to come together for picnics and to just dance enjoy themselves and have a grand time with one another. A little fact about the miners, they befriended the rats because when the mine was going to flood the rats would start running to safety which the miners used as their alarm system so they also could get to a safer place. Since the mine was most famous for flooding. This place had one of the most amazing views I saw since I have been in Ireland.
(the view from the dancing boards)
Then it was off to the Milford lock which was interesting because they would use the river to transport goods to different places. Also, over the years the water has been so strong that it has actually pushed the ground down under the bridge that when it floods, the water goes up and over the road and no one can drive through the water.
Last spot until lunch time seemed to take forever because one of the priests was explaining everything. When you actually looked at the time and thought about all the places we had been so far it wasn’t really explained in depth as much as the priest did, we had more time to look around at the other spots. But anyways it was a church that had a lot of history to it and many different styles that were built on it over the centuries. Also, we got to walk up the tower which had really small steps even though I was scared that I was going to fall I thought that was pretty cool.
(the tower we went up in)
The next stop on this journey I don’t even remember what it was called but it was a graveyard where catholic and christens were buried side by side. Also, there was a penal alter where they would met in secret and they would have a look out to signal when one of the kings enforcers were coming and when they were coming the priest and everyone else just flee to get away so they wouldn’t get caught. I got to see where some of the monks slept and just different levels of buildings also.
(the view from the penal alter)
The very last spot was to Ducketts Grove which has a really interesting story behind it. It was featured on of the shows where they are trying to find ghost and what not I can’t remember the name of it. But some believe that there is a banshee that followed the Duckett family and if you heard the scream someone in that family would die. But I’m not going to go into full detail of the family so here is a link that you can go to if you are more interested. http://www.duckettsgrove.eu/
(the one side of the Ducketts Grove)
The rest of my weekend was amazing because I ended up going to Galway but I’m just going to keep that experience to myself. All I’m going to say about it is that there is also a different tone it different cities that you go to just like in the states.
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