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Newgrange

location_on Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
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About Newgrange

Newgrange is a prehistoric monument in County Meath, Ireland, placed 8 kilometers five.0 mi west of Drogheda on the north side of the River Boyne. It is a very grand passage tomb constructed throughout the Neolithic length, round 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. The site consists of a large round mound with an internal stone passageway and chambers. Human bones and feasible grave items or votive services had been discovered in these chambers. The mound has a keeping wall on the front, made more often than not of white quartz cobblestones, and it is ringed with the aid of engraved kerbstones. Many of the bigger stones of Newgrange are protected in megalithic artwork. The mound is also ringed via a stone circle.

Some of the fabric that makes up the monument got here from as a ways away because the Mournes and Wicklow Mountains. There is no settlement about what the web site became used for, however it's far believed that it had religious significance. Its entrance is aligned with the growing solar at the wintry weather solstice, when sunlight shines thru a 'roof field' and floods the inner chamber. Several different passage tombs in Ireland are aligned with solstices and equinoxes, and Cairn G at Carrowkeel has a similar 'roof box'.

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