Hold a lamb and Beehive Huts

We stopped here to hold a lamb. Awe! So sweet! Till you remember that they are simply raised for meat. Poor lamb. But dang, I do love lamb stew!
When they sheer sheep, they toss, bury or burn the wool. It's that worthless. So all the wool items for sale here are not really Irish. The items for sale are made of merino wool, which are different breeds of sheep than what are here.
The Beehive huts are pre-viking times. They didn't use any mortar to hold the stones. They simply stacked. And they are still standing! The picture of the complete one is a replica. But the others are real. Also, the clans built a tunnel system under the huts to hide from neighboring clans when fighting, to store valuables, store food, and to hide livestock. They tunneled many miles. Crazy cool!Read more