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Newgrange (County Meath)

Description: Neolithic monument. Valley of the Boyne - Meath (South of the river Boyne on the L21, 2km west of Donore. Sign-posted ... more

Newgrange (County Meath) ... from Drogheda (off N1), and from Slane (off N2). Tel = +353 41 9880300 (visitor centre).

Newest Review: ... in the very reasonable, pre-Euro, admission price of £4. A cheaper option allowing access to the visitor center only was also available. I have checked current prices and the Newgrange tour is now around 6 Euros per adult. We were lucky and were informed that a group was leaving for Newgrange imminently. We were directed outside to a suspension bridge across the river and followed the path ... more

... down to a waiting tour bus. Each tour group comprises a maximum of 24 visitors so that the site does not become overcrowded, and we were relieved to find that our group was actually slightly fewer in number than this. After a very short drive thr...more

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Newgrange (County Meath): Why You Should use an Irish Builder. (1607 words)
by - written on 23/10/08 (Very useful, 423 readings)
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I'd never heard of Newgrange before I went there. Which may explain why I was totally blown away. I first visited in 1999, when I was over in Ireland staying with my husband's family. It was a chilly, damp day in April when they suggested we might like to see an area known as Brú na Bóinne - in English, "the dwelling place of the Boyne". This turned out to be a collection of prehistoric sites in County Meath, located in a wide meander of the River Boyne about an hour's drive north of Dublin. The most famous of these antiquities is Newgrange, a megalithic "passage tomb" richly decorated with ancient works of art. (Although there is much ... Read the complete review

Discovered - Newgrange's Ancient Amazing Secret (971 words)
by - written on 13/01/01 (Very useful, 68 readings)
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Newgrange. Already five hundred years old when the pyramids were constructed. Older than Stonehenge and covering a greater area. This 5,500 year-old massive chambered mound is part of a huge neolithic complex in the Boyne Valley, Meath, Ireland, about 45 minutes drive north west of Dublin. To the west is large mound of Knowth, surrounded by smaller mounds, and on the east is the still to be excavated mound of Dowth. In this 7.8sq km (3sq mi) area of the Boyne valley are grouped more than 30 prehistoric monuments : standing stones, barrows, and enclosures. Many things make this complex, known as Brú na Bóinne, different. The size and number of the mounds, the ... Read the complete review