Day 3 Addendum
Okay, I'm going to put up a few pictures from the Irish National Heritage Park. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that my pictures really do this site justice, nor are they as spectacular as some of the other ones I've posted (or have yet to put up!).
First up is an early Irish farmstead, from the Neolithic period.
This is part of an early Christian monastery.
The above image is a Crannog. This is loch-dwelling settlement, of a type found in Scotland and Ireland. They were built out in the water for defensive reasons, on artificial islands. From what I've read about them, it would've taken a lot of work to put one of these together.
This is a Viking shipbuilders yard. There is a man from Denmark that works at the Heritage Park who builds ships using the same techniques and tools they would have used back in the 12th century. He was kind enough to show us the ship he was building, and tell us a bit about what he does. The following picture shows inside the workshop.
I'll wrap up with this rather spectacular view taken from a hill at the end of the Heritage Park walk...nothing to do with the park itself, but doesn't it look nice?
First up is an early Irish farmstead, from the Neolithic period.
This is part of an early Christian monastery.
The above image is a Crannog. This is loch-dwelling settlement, of a type found in Scotland and Ireland. They were built out in the water for defensive reasons, on artificial islands. From what I've read about them, it would've taken a lot of work to put one of these together.
This is a Viking shipbuilders yard. There is a man from Denmark that works at the Heritage Park who builds ships using the same techniques and tools they would have used back in the 12th century. He was kind enough to show us the ship he was building, and tell us a bit about what he does. The following picture shows inside the workshop.
I'll wrap up with this rather spectacular view taken from a hill at the end of the Heritage Park walk...nothing to do with the park itself, but doesn't it look nice?
posted by Matt at 5:52 a.m.
1 Comments:
Yay, early Irish monasteries! They're really interesting (I did a paper about Irish monasticism for my first medieval history course).
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