The weather today was cool and rainy, which was a total surprise... We loaded up the van early, once Haddon, our Irish professor arrived, and left for Armagh. Today we saw two cathedrals. The first cathedral was on the sight where Saint Patrick originally built his cathedral when he came to Ireland, today it is a Protestant cathedral.
It was beautiful inside, but not as ornate as many Catholic cathedrals are. We spent some time walking around and learned a little bit about the architecture from our Art professor, Neil. After that we walked down into the town for lunch at a small cafe. I had quiche, mash (mashed potatoes), and vegetables. After lunch we drove to the other Saint Patrick Cathedral, which is a Catholic cathedral.
Inside was beautiful with mosaics covering the floors all the way to the ceiling.
There was also the twelve stations of the cross throughout the naive. We spent some time looking around the cathedral and then drove through narrow country roads to a place called Navan. Today, Navan is to the unlearned eye just a grassy mound. We learned, though, that it is an ancient site of worship that has since been overgrown. We climbed up to the top of the Navan mound and from there could see small farms with sheep and cows grazing. It is just amazing to me that the houses throughout Ireland look so old even the more modern ones. They are also all made of cement and they think that making houses out of wood is "silly," but don't be "cross" because they probably need cement to hold their houses together since it rains 90 inches a year here.
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