Knowth

The Book of Kells – Part 3

Spirals in art have fascinated me for quite a while now and while I’m not exactly sure why, I may have come a bit closer to discovering what draws me to them.  Apparently, the Irish have been fascinated by spirals for thousands of years and it keeps showing up in their artwork. I started my […]

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Knowth

Not far from the Newgrange site is another passage tomb – Knowth.  The Knowth site is interesting in that it is one large mound surrounded by a number of smaller mounds.  We were allowed to go inside the large, central mound, but only so far as the innermost chambers and the passage itself is beginning […]

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