[Irishguy]

http://www.knowth.com/newgrange.htm


some people here are listening to too many hollywood films i think!

this was built before the pyramids, 3200 BC...and to be honest is nothing short of stunning and thats from someone who doesnt visit these things...

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks for that link, Irishguy; it is bookmarked & saved.
& thanks S-C for the concise info & Limerick limerick.

I think my own leg fell off when I pulled; my wife is mostly Irish descent.

This article claimed this Viking settlement was "Ireland's first town" and that the Vikings raided upriver monasteries, giving the (utterly false) impression that the Irish, Celts, and Gaels were all nothing more than wandering tribes or clans, with the exception of the monasteries.

What I was really asking was, what was the author &/or archaeologist trying to convey by calling it 'Ireland's first town'. Naturally, that ignores a few thousand years of history prior to 800 AD.

Is it the first 'fully intact' (his words, not mine) town excavated?

First of that time period?

First Viking town?

First one he's found? ;)

It just seemed so ludicrous that I'm still wondering what he meant. If I get mad enough, I may just have to book passage for us, so I can go over and ask him!