Newgrange and its neighboring sites, Dowth and Knowth, are part of the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage sites. They are thought to be man-made Megalithic "passage tombs," thought of as ...

Andrew Murray Threipland unbolts a heavy iron yett (a latticed gate), and we walk in single file down the passage to the ...

Newgrange, a Neolithic passage tomb that is older than the pyramids in Egypt, is located in the Boyne Valley, Co Meath. It features a 19m-long passage that leads into a chamber with three alcoves.

The team unearthed a web of distant familial connections between the man from Newgrange and other individuals from passage tomb sites across the country, including the "mega-cemeteries" of ...

The solar alignment of the passage tomb at Newgrange to face the rising sun on the winter solstice was originally rediscovered by Prof Michael J. O’Kelly in 1967. Other researchers have since ...

A passage tomb is a burial chamber usually set within a circular mound that is accessible via a passage – those at Newgrange and Slieve Gullion are estimated to be about 5,000 years old.

Newgrange, along with the prehistoric passage tombs of Dowth and Knowth, make up the Brú na Bóinne complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located around 8km west of Drogheda. These ceremonial ...

Rockingham Ranch and David Bernsen's 5-year-old millionaire Newgrange , a five-time graded-stakes winner, has been elevated to the main dozen horses on the final invitation list for the $3.015 ...

Slieve Gulllion is home to the highest surviving passage tomb in Ireland [Laurence Magee/Newry Mourne and Down Council] If Newgrange is for early risers, then Slieve Gullion, in County Armagh ...