Newgrange and Monasterboice

 

If you have ever been a parent to a teenager, it is sometimes hard to get them to talk.  They talk in one answer sentence.  Roman and my mother visited the Newgrange monument yesterday along with Monasterboice, located in the Boyne Valley near Drogheda.  Newgrange is a prehistoric monument dating to around 3000 B.C. It is older than the Stonehedge and the pyramids in Eygpt.  It was a tomb of some sort designed in a circular pattern.  After visiting Newgrange, they went to Monsasterboice/  Monsasterboice, a cemetery for the Monastic people.  There, you will find the remains of two churches and graves. The churches were used until the 13 century.  Little is known of the people except for a list of presiding abbots. The area today is a part of the national monuments of Ireland.  They ended their day with lunch/dinner at the Valley Inn, where they ate a traditional Irish dinner.  Oh, I forgot to mention that while they were at Monasterboice, they met an older lady named Jennifer Violet Shaw.  Apparently, she was once a lawyer, but in proper Irish form, she chatted their ears off.  This is something my mother loves about Ireland.  The people are so friendly.