Walking in the footsteps of Newgrange ancestors at Rathcor Beach
http://www.mythicalireland.com Newgrange Monument to Immortality author Anthony Murphy visits Rathcor Beach, on the Cooley Peninsula in County Louth, to visit the spot where the builders of Newgrange were said to have sourced the granite cobble stones which are interspersed with white quartz on the front of the monument. Over 5000 years ago, our ancestors came to this spot to carefully select water-rolled granite cobbles which can still be found scattered about this remarkable rock beach in large numbers. Archaeologists believe they transported stones to Newgrange by boat, down the Irish Sea and up the Boyne River. Rathcor is a most incredible beach. it is little visited by humans - precisely because all the stones there make it difficult to walk about, and dangerous for children. There is a sense of something untouched down there - something that has remained the same for five millennia. Ironically, the granite at Cooley is not native. It originates further north, in the Mourne Mountains. How it got to the southern shore of the Cooley Peninsula is another question. A journey to Rathcor, to see one of the sites from which the Newgrange builders got their stone, will send shivers up the spine and give you goosebumps. You can almost imagine meeting one of your ancestors there, picking up stones . . .From:mythicalirelandViews:23 0ratingsTime:01:33More inScience Technology
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