📷 hbieser · Pixabay
Where in the world
Ireland
Newgrange
Neolithic · Ireland
Field notes
- civilizations
- NeolithicMegalithic
- types
- Dolmen · Mausoleum
- built
- 3,200 BCE — 3,100 BCE
- occupied
- 3,200 BCE — 2,000 BCE
- country
- Ireland
The site
Newgrange is a grand Neolithic passage tomb raised around 3200 BCE on a rise above the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland, older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. Beneath a vast circular mound, a stone passageway leads to a cruciform chamber that held burnt and unburnt human bone; the striking façade of white quartz cobbles is ringed by kerbstones carved with megalithic art. Some of its stone was hauled from mountains many kilometres away.
