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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: ... built about 3500 BC and today is in a much restored form. It consists of a vast stone and turf mound about 85m (280ft) in diameter and 13.5m (44ft) high, containing a passage leading to a chamber. Outside the base, 12 out of the original estimated 38 large boulders up to 2.4m (8ft) high form a ring of about 104m (340ft) in diameter. The stone circle was built about 1000 years later than the ... more

... original structure, dating probably from the Beaker period. This ring of stones is almost unique in Great Britain and Ireland. When you stand in the chamber you cannot see the entrance. The passageway has a bend. The chamber is ...more

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Newgrange (County Meath): Discovered - Newgrange's Ancient Amazing Secret (971 words)
by Pinotage - written on 13.01.01 (Very useful, 57 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 ...

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