Irish Shenanigans
I'm sorry I havent updated lately
but...
I can't use livejournal on my apartment internet, so I have to wait for when i have free time when I'm on campus so....
Yeah
I'm on campus now! (obviously)
So...
This is me singing "Don't Stop Phi-lieving."
The water edge in Cobh, Co. Cork
a high cross that I edited the colours of. This picture was taken on an archaeology trip to Monasterboice.
Church in Cobh
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me in front of the church in cobh (pronounced Cove)
same thing..
Cobh - coast in the background
a pretty cat in Cobh
SHEEP! at Bunratty Folk Park. Isn't he adorable!?!?
Me making stupid faces while walking around Bunratty
I thought I'd smile for at least one...
Bunratty Castle
Random guy at An Brog, a bar. I wasn't sure what was going on, hence the expression...
Sam decided to take a picture of me while cooking. I know its very attractive..
the bar/restaurant we ate at while at Bunratty had a collection of police badges, this was one of them!
Halloween =) I was a vampire. Amanda was bo-peep and Angie was a pirate
Ring of Kerry, Valentia Island, Skellig Experience
view point on Valentia Island. We were trying to jump at the same time =D
Smiling at the view point..
I took my hair down to show how windy it was...
Isnt it pretty? This is the same view point in the Ring of Kerry on Valentia Island.
Ceili dancing in Kerry
At a stone fort in Kerry. I climbed above the door and had someone take a picture of me
at the top of the stone fort..\
this is to show you how high it was...
SHEEP in kerry. He came to visit me... hehehehhee i loovveeee sheeppppp
Waterfall in Killarney. Or Cill Arne
Waterfall with fellow american exchange students. Both from the same school actually, Marist, in New York, chesley on the left and Melissa in the middle
One of the many times they forced me to sing on fieldtrips. This was in Slane, right outside of dublin
Group picture at the rock of cashel..
I edited this picture i took of the inside of a manor house in West COrk
LOOK MOM I"M TOUCHING A STANDING STONE! It actually did send me back in time, but when I got there they started yelling "WITCH!" so... I thought I should come back to the present =D
The stone circle, Drombeg in West Cork
Newgrange exibit... I was sacraficed to the sun god x.x
Before I knew my deadly fate - entering the newgrange passage tomb re-creation
An intesting thing about Newgrange is that its part of the Boyne Valley, or Bru na Boinne in gaelic. Also called the bend the boyne, and the boyne being the river that runs through this valley. Newgrange is one of three major passage tombs within the area. Knowth and Dowth being the other two, the three passage tombs embody the cycle of the sun throughout the year. Newgrange starts the cycle with being oriented on the sunrise of the winter solstice, which is dec. 21st. When the sun rises on that morning the sun slowly creeps up the passage of the tomb, also making its way through something called a roof box (to allow more light), which is a pretty innovative invention for this time, until it gets up to the back of the tomb, filling the cruciform chamber at the end. While visiting the tomb, they recreate this for you with artifical light. Unfortunately while we were there it was basically hurricaning, but... it was still pretty amazing. Knowth, being the biggest of the three embodies the middle of the cycle having two passages within the mound facing an east - west access catching the sunrise and the sunset daily. Dowth, ends the cycle with being oriented on the SUNSET of the Winter solstice, back to where Newgrange started. These sites are National Monuments and its almost impossible to get to be in them on the mornings that they use the sun to fill their chambers. The President along with the Taoiseach(Prime Minister) and the parlimentary members get first dibs, with a lottery put on for the rest of the slots to filling the tomb on the morning of Dec. 21st. These tombs, on the outside, look just like the house mounds at Orkney(mom). But are definitely really amazing. I did my final project for my first arch class on Newgrange and its definitely an amazing site. It shows that community living in the area back then was organized enough to make these tombs, which would have required thousands upon thousands of people. THere aslo had to be some sort of hierarchy since someone had to instruct the workers and make the plans. These monuments were not meant for large gatherings, so there had to be some upper class which used the "tomb" restricting access to all others. Not only was building this a huge undertaking for this society, but the stones used to build these tombs didnt even come from the relative area. These stones came from specific areas of ireland (of which i cant remember at the moment) and they would have had to carried them more than several miles to bring them back to the valley. Oh, and if you were wondering, these tombs were built during the Neolithic Period. Its easy to understand why this community put an emphasis on the sun seeing as it was the one thing they could count on. This was a sedintary community, relying mainly on farming rather than hunting as their source of food. They didnt travel, i.e. the reason they were able to build these tombs which would have probably took at least a decade each to build.
Pretty fascinating, right?
(By the way, that as all from memory. I'm a smart cookie, aren't I?)
On top of Trim Castle. It was windy
Hiding behind a stone at the Labbacallee Wedge Tomb - west cork
Rolling down the hill at the Rock of Cashel. It really wasnt my idea, im just easily convinced
Group picture at the rock of cashel
Christ Church in Dublin
Trim Castle
Monastery Graveyard/Relic Housing/Round Tower/High Crosses in Monasterboice
Wallabys at Fota Wildlife Park... I was like 4 feet away from them! with no barrier...so cute...
Me and Tadhg. He was a pretty cool giraffe!
and of course, a caroline album wouldn't be complete with PENGUINS!!!!
Creepy circus frog person at FOTA. I didnt like him...but everyone made me take a picture with him., scary as hell, seriously.
Me at Poulnabrone, a megalithic Portal Tomb in the Burren in County Clare. Portal tombs are usually the smallest of tombs, with the entrance facing the north. Poulnabrone had the bodies of 16 adults and children found inside it. Not all Portal tombs have this amount of human remains. Whether these were people being punished, sacraficed, or honored by the community, archaeologists still don't know. =)
Tomas talking about the inside of the Monastery we were standing in.
Standing in a doorway at the same Monastery
Cashel in the Burren on the edge of a ravine cliff =D
Collasped in the grass at the cashel
Others lounging in the grass. It was very comfortable and relaxing. And beautiful, of course!
Amanda and Me rolling around in the grass
Rolling in the grass
the burreeeennn
Another view of the cashel
i almost tripped in taking this picture while climbing down from the cashel. Tomas even stayed behind to make sure I was ok. =)
CLIFFS OF MOHER
Beautiful sunset
More sunset
Chris, posing with the falling off the cliff sign --- the thing he would probably be the one to do. No joke.
more cliffs, my favourite side
me posing with the cliffs =)
Close up of the crashing waves and the cliffs
I was trying to pretend like i was falling, but all i look like is that im being sick
I just look like im bashing my head in this one, but Caitlin looks good...
THE BUS! Joe was a good bus driver...
Amanda and Tomas laughing in the bar one night on an overnight field trip
Amanda and me making weird faces at the same pub
smiles =)
More funny faces, mostly from me..
Another Monastery the next day...
Sitting in one of the archway windows..
Close up
Sacrificed on a stone slab...per usual. First the sun god, now this.
Angel Memorial in Cobh for the Titanic - the Titanic's last port before it went out into the atlantic was Cobh, Ireland.. Ok, just kidding. I just bumped into my friend amanda and she thinks its a memorial for the Lusitania, which actually sounds correct to me. BUT, Cobh was the last city that the titanic visited.
inside of the church in Cobh!
The ferry going to France
This is what happened when i left my onion alone in my cupboard...
Round tower at Ardmore
An Ogham Stone at Ardmore. You can't see it in this picture, but... Ogham stones are an old type of monument left in ireland. Usually used as boundary markers they can also be used for things such as grave markers. Starting on the bottom left of the stone, a pattern of dashes/slashes will come up the side. If the message isnt finished by the time it reaches the top it will continue back down the ride side, kind of making an arch. Ogham is an ancient alphabet based on ruman numerals. Depending on how many slashes you have/where they occur on the corner of the stone designates a different letter. The language you traslate these into is Old Irish - what I'm actually studying this year.
Anddd... ending with a picture of Amanda and me outside a pub near our apartments called Rendezvous.
I will add more later
LOVE YOU
=D
Caro/Lina/Moose
but...
I can't use livejournal on my apartment internet, so I have to wait for when i have free time when I'm on campus so....
Yeah
I'm on campus now! (obviously)
So...
This is me singing "Don't Stop Phi-lieving."
The water edge in Cobh, Co. Cork
a high cross that I edited the colours of. This picture was taken on an archaeology trip to Monasterboice.
Church in Cobh
h
me in front of the church in cobh (pronounced Cove)
same thing..
Cobh - coast in the background
a pretty cat in Cobh
SHEEP! at Bunratty Folk Park. Isn't he adorable!?!?
Me making stupid faces while walking around Bunratty
I thought I'd smile for at least one...
Bunratty Castle
Random guy at An Brog, a bar. I wasn't sure what was going on, hence the expression...
Sam decided to take a picture of me while cooking. I know its very attractive..
the bar/restaurant we ate at while at Bunratty had a collection of police badges, this was one of them!
Halloween =) I was a vampire. Amanda was bo-peep and Angie was a pirate
Ring of Kerry, Valentia Island, Skellig Experience
view point on Valentia Island. We were trying to jump at the same time =D
Smiling at the view point..
I took my hair down to show how windy it was...
Isnt it pretty? This is the same view point in the Ring of Kerry on Valentia Island.
Ceili dancing in Kerry
At a stone fort in Kerry. I climbed above the door and had someone take a picture of me
at the top of the stone fort..\
this is to show you how high it was...
SHEEP in kerry. He came to visit me... hehehehhee i loovveeee sheeppppp
Waterfall in Killarney. Or Cill Arne
Waterfall with fellow american exchange students. Both from the same school actually, Marist, in New York, chesley on the left and Melissa in the middle
One of the many times they forced me to sing on fieldtrips. This was in Slane, right outside of dublin
Group picture at the rock of cashel..
I edited this picture i took of the inside of a manor house in West COrk
LOOK MOM I"M TOUCHING A STANDING STONE! It actually did send me back in time, but when I got there they started yelling "WITCH!" so... I thought I should come back to the present =D
The stone circle, Drombeg in West Cork
Newgrange exibit... I was sacraficed to the sun god x.x
Before I knew my deadly fate - entering the newgrange passage tomb re-creation
An intesting thing about Newgrange is that its part of the Boyne Valley, or Bru na Boinne in gaelic. Also called the bend the boyne, and the boyne being the river that runs through this valley. Newgrange is one of three major passage tombs within the area. Knowth and Dowth being the other two, the three passage tombs embody the cycle of the sun throughout the year. Newgrange starts the cycle with being oriented on the sunrise of the winter solstice, which is dec. 21st. When the sun rises on that morning the sun slowly creeps up the passage of the tomb, also making its way through something called a roof box (to allow more light), which is a pretty innovative invention for this time, until it gets up to the back of the tomb, filling the cruciform chamber at the end. While visiting the tomb, they recreate this for you with artifical light. Unfortunately while we were there it was basically hurricaning, but... it was still pretty amazing. Knowth, being the biggest of the three embodies the middle of the cycle having two passages within the mound facing an east - west access catching the sunrise and the sunset daily. Dowth, ends the cycle with being oriented on the SUNSET of the Winter solstice, back to where Newgrange started. These sites are National Monuments and its almost impossible to get to be in them on the mornings that they use the sun to fill their chambers. The President along with the Taoiseach(Prime Minister) and the parlimentary members get first dibs, with a lottery put on for the rest of the slots to filling the tomb on the morning of Dec. 21st. These tombs, on the outside, look just like the house mounds at Orkney(mom). But are definitely really amazing. I did my final project for my first arch class on Newgrange and its definitely an amazing site. It shows that community living in the area back then was organized enough to make these tombs, which would have required thousands upon thousands of people. THere aslo had to be some sort of hierarchy since someone had to instruct the workers and make the plans. These monuments were not meant for large gatherings, so there had to be some upper class which used the "tomb" restricting access to all others. Not only was building this a huge undertaking for this society, but the stones used to build these tombs didnt even come from the relative area. These stones came from specific areas of ireland (of which i cant remember at the moment) and they would have had to carried them more than several miles to bring them back to the valley. Oh, and if you were wondering, these tombs were built during the Neolithic Period. Its easy to understand why this community put an emphasis on the sun seeing as it was the one thing they could count on. This was a sedintary community, relying mainly on farming rather than hunting as their source of food. They didnt travel, i.e. the reason they were able to build these tombs which would have probably took at least a decade each to build.
Pretty fascinating, right?
(By the way, that as all from memory. I'm a smart cookie, aren't I?)
On top of Trim Castle. It was windy
Hiding behind a stone at the Labbacallee Wedge Tomb - west cork
Rolling down the hill at the Rock of Cashel. It really wasnt my idea, im just easily convinced
Group picture at the rock of cashel
Christ Church in Dublin
Trim Castle
Monastery Graveyard/Relic Housing/Round Tower/High Crosses in Monasterboice
Wallabys at Fota Wildlife Park... I was like 4 feet away from them! with no barrier...so cute...
Me and Tadhg. He was a pretty cool giraffe!
and of course, a caroline album wouldn't be complete with PENGUINS!!!!
Creepy circus frog person at FOTA. I didnt like him...but everyone made me take a picture with him., scary as hell, seriously.
Me at Poulnabrone, a megalithic Portal Tomb in the Burren in County Clare. Portal tombs are usually the smallest of tombs, with the entrance facing the north. Poulnabrone had the bodies of 16 adults and children found inside it. Not all Portal tombs have this amount of human remains. Whether these were people being punished, sacraficed, or honored by the community, archaeologists still don't know. =)
Tomas talking about the inside of the Monastery we were standing in.
Standing in a doorway at the same Monastery
Cashel in the Burren on the edge of a ravine cliff =D
Collasped in the grass at the cashel
Others lounging in the grass. It was very comfortable and relaxing. And beautiful, of course!
Amanda and Me rolling around in the grass
Rolling in the grass
the burreeeennn
Another view of the cashel
i almost tripped in taking this picture while climbing down from the cashel. Tomas even stayed behind to make sure I was ok. =)
CLIFFS OF MOHER
Beautiful sunset
More sunset
Chris, posing with the falling off the cliff sign --- the thing he would probably be the one to do. No joke.
more cliffs, my favourite side
me posing with the cliffs =)
Close up of the crashing waves and the cliffs
I was trying to pretend like i was falling, but all i look like is that im being sick
I just look like im bashing my head in this one, but Caitlin looks good...
THE BUS! Joe was a good bus driver...
Amanda and Tomas laughing in the bar one night on an overnight field trip
Amanda and me making weird faces at the same pub
smiles =)
More funny faces, mostly from me..
Another Monastery the next day...
Sitting in one of the archway windows..
Close up
Sacrificed on a stone slab...per usual. First the sun god, now this.
Angel Memorial in Cobh for the Titanic - the Titanic's last port before it went out into the atlantic was Cobh, Ireland.. Ok, just kidding. I just bumped into my friend amanda and she thinks its a memorial for the Lusitania, which actually sounds correct to me. BUT, Cobh was the last city that the titanic visited.
inside of the church in Cobh!
The ferry going to France
This is what happened when i left my onion alone in my cupboard...
Round tower at Ardmore
An Ogham Stone at Ardmore. You can't see it in this picture, but... Ogham stones are an old type of monument left in ireland. Usually used as boundary markers they can also be used for things such as grave markers. Starting on the bottom left of the stone, a pattern of dashes/slashes will come up the side. If the message isnt finished by the time it reaches the top it will continue back down the ride side, kind of making an arch. Ogham is an ancient alphabet based on ruman numerals. Depending on how many slashes you have/where they occur on the corner of the stone designates a different letter. The language you traslate these into is Old Irish - what I'm actually studying this year.
Anddd... ending with a picture of Amanda and me outside a pub near our apartments called Rendezvous.
I will add more later
LOVE YOU
=D
Caro/Lina/Moose