New Grange Portal Slim Gift for Farmers hard wood for construction and

hard wood for construction and bark for tanning

Trees are associated with folklore and wisdom in Irish mythology

Dagda made the sun stand still for nine months and Aengus was conceived and born in one day

This pendant is 30mm in height and 22mm at its widest point

At Dawn on the 21 December at the Winter Solstice the sun floods the light-box over the portal tomb in New Grange lighting up the passageway to the sacred basin stone

New Grange Portal Slim Gift for Farmers hard wood for construction andFairies Forts and Standing Stones Neolithic monuments such as New Grange and Raths such as the Griann of Ailleach are ubiquitous in the Irish landscape. They hold many of the secrets of our past. What inspired our ancestors to inscribe the beautiful portal stone at New Grange with a series of spirals? What must the inauguration ceremonies of high kings, queens and chieftains of Ireland looked like on these historic raths. Did the fairies hold their