Brú na Bóinne / Newgrange

A 5,200-year-old passage tomb older than the pyramids, famous for its winter solstice light alignment.

Our plan

Arrival time at the Visitor Centre is 12:30 PM -- all admission to Newgrange is through the Visitor Centre by shuttle bus; you cannot drive directly to the monument. 5 tickets, booking ref 331010.

The story

Newgrange is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, placed on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres west of the town of Drogheda. It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3100 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. Newgrange is the main monument in the Brú na Bóinne complex, a World Heritage Site that also includes the passage tombs of Knowth and Dowth, as well as other henges, burial mounds and standing stones.

From Wikipedia: Newgrange · photo via Wikimedia Commons