Newgrange was built about 3200 BC ,around 1000 years before the earliest pyramids
The monks that build it were advanced in maths ,astronamy and consturtion, because the passage and chamber of Newgrange are illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise. A shaft of sunlight shines through the roof box over the entrance and penetrates the passage to light up the chamber. The dramatic event lasts for 17 minutes at dawn from the 19th to the 23rd of December.
I just taught i let people know thats why we,re so good a everything
thank you

What monks exactly?

--Jaylemurph

Pagan Monks in the Neolithic Age or New Stone Age
Its purpose was for buirial tomb for kings

And another point of interest
is that there is alot of evidence suggesting that
The Great English King ,King Arthur was in fact irish, A warlord or mercenary brought into drawth the invading normans
interisting ah

Hi Danny, Newgrange is fascinating, but little if anything is known about the people who built it, If king Arthur was involved at the time of the norman invasion it would have been well documented, plus he wouldn't have been much of a hero, the Norman's won. where you from in Ireland.

Do you mean priests? I've never heard of "pagan monks". Although we don't really know a great deal about Pagan religions from back then.
"Monk" in the West is a particularly christian thing. The word itself comes from the Latin for their hood.



There's a lot more to suggest he was post-Roman Welsh fighting Germanic invaders.

--Jaylemurph

[quote name='jaylemurph' date='Jan 4 2008, 11:18 PM' post='2076584']
Do you mean priests? I've never heard of "pagan monks". Although we don't really know a great deal about Pagan religions from back then.
"Monk" in the West is a particularly christian thing. The word itself comes from the Latin for their hood.



There's a lot more to suggest he was post-Roman Welsh fighting Germanic invaders.


anglo-saxon invasion not just Germanic. They could have been any one mostly mercenries who didn,t get paid


One othe legand says ,Áedán mac Gabráin possibly arthurs dad, was crowned on the island of Iona by St. Columba, the Irish of the White Martydom
and in 603 went to war against the pagan Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. The resulting Battle of Degsastan ,whose location, like Badon Hill, is unknown, could have helped fuel the northern Badon Hill theory, although Aidan lost to the Saxons. He was died in that battle and was later buried in Iona ,Althought its a Scotish Island now it was,nt back then it was Irish or atleast governth by Dál Riata . He had a son call Arthuir beleived to be Arthur

To be Honest there poems, storys and songs that refer to an Arthur around that time in every place in the celtic isle,s
So any historical debate will go nowhere fast
Being Irish its nice to think we got something over England

Badon hill theory:The Battle of Badon Hill was King Arthur's greatest triumph over the Saxons .Bowden Hill, south of the Scottish town of Linlithgow, has a claim to be the battle site of Badon Hill, a claim which relies mostly on its name and is favoured as the battlesite among those who believe that Arthur was a northen British king

They actually dont know what people built newgrange or Stonehenge and it was not druids as druids worship nature and had no need for stone structures. but newgrange is a fascanating place but also like Stonehenge its only 1 part of a bigger area.

The Irish sure were good...













...at drinking and growing potatoes maybe!

Tut tut..................

haha nice one

Two noble pastimes.

lolololol

Is this Patricia Kennealy (oh uh Morrison's) thread? lol