• Newgrange in the Boyne Valley is a 5000 year old Passage Tomb famous for the Winter Solstice illumination which lights up the passage and chamber at sunrise.
  • Newgrange contains various examples of graphic Neolithic rock art carved onto its stone surfaces.[14] These carvings fit into ten categories, five of which are...
  • This however is a very limited view of Newgrange’s many uses. ... Some of its stones were therefore reused in the building of Newgrange.
  • İrlanda edebiyatında Boyne’un ikametgahı olarak nam salan Newgrange, M.Ö. 3200’lerde yapılmış bir “pasaj mezar”dır.
  • The exact origins of Newgrange are not known, but it is believed to have been built by a Neolithic people known as the Boyne-Forth culture.
  • The most famous structure is Newgrange. Newgrange is a man-made mound built atop a hill to give it a commanding view of the surrounding countryside.
  • This 3-square-mile area contains nearly a hundred ancient monuments, including two other large tombs in addition to Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth.
  • A visit to Newgrange Ireland has always been on the top of my must-see list and I have to say it lived up to every expectation I had.
  • An ancient stone monument, Newgrange was built about 3200 bc, during the Neolithic Period, or the New Stone Age.
  • It’s part of a wider megalithic cemetery, but Newgrange is most famous for its passage tomb, which is a ginormous 80m wide and 13m high.