• Old church

    July 17, 2023 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 61 °F

    The ruins of an old church from 600 B.C.E.
    Beautiful! We saw an old sun dial, a Contract Stone (they did marriage agreements by sticking their fingers through the hole and agreeing to bond) written in an old pre-Viking Irish language from the 5th and 9th Century called Ogham (pronounced ohm), and an alphabet stone which taught Latin. These 3 stones are not native to this church. But they werefound on the local villagers property, and simply placed here.
    This was also the site of mass graves from the Famine.
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