A weekend in Dingle, going home
We left the Dingle and took the long drive back to Vaughan's house in Navan where we had a lovely supper with his family. Before that Vaughan took us to see the large megalithic tomb, Bru na Boinne, in Newgrange. I had never seen anything like it before. It had closed for the night but we looked over the hedge to see it's true enormity. It predates Stonehenge by 1,000 years and the pyramids by 400. The roof inside is corbelled and supports 200,000 tons of cairn. The cremated remains of the dead were laid out on large stone basins in the chamber. On the winter solstice a shaft of light illuminated the inside of the chamber through a purpose built opening over the doorway. The next day we set out for Dublin and the journey home. We found a great bar, O'Hogarty's, to have lunch in the Temple Bar district. Their were a couple of singers and it made our day to sit and listen to them in such friendly surroundings.