Gps Coordinates / 53.693797,-6.4745803
Newgrange VR Prehistoric Seven World Wonder Tourism
Ireland Donore
Newgrange, Donore, Co. Meath, Ireland
Newgrange is a prehistoric monument in County Meath, Ireland, located 5 miles west of Drogheda on the north side of the River Boyne. It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.
Gps Coordinates / 53.6943359,-6.4749039
The site consists of a large circular mound with an inner stone passageway and chambers. Human bones and possible grave goods or votive offerings were found in these chambers. The mound has a retaining wall at the front, made mostly of white quartz cobblestones, and it is ringed by engraved kerbstones. Many of the larger stones of Newgrange are covered in megalithic art.
Newgrange is 200 years older than Stonehenge
Link Location Gps / Link Gps -6.4746033 / Link Gps -6.4752175 / Link Gps -6.476048
Gps Coordinates / 53.6943633,-6.4746033 / 53.6944687,-6.4752175 / 53.6951059,-6.476048
The mound is also ringed by a stone circle. Some of the material that makes up the monument came from as far away as the Mournes and Wicklow Mountains. There is no agreement about what the site was used for, but it is believed that it had religious significance. Its entrance is aligned with the rising sun on the winter solstice, when sunlight shines through a 'roofbox' located above the passage entrance and floods the inner chamber.
This area had such lack of interest in the 60's farmers were allowed to send their cows to graze on the rooftop, its under protection status these days, its literally a national treasure
The roof needs grazed, used to be cows now robotic mowers cut the roof
Link Location Gps / Link Gps -6.4751377 / Link Gps -6.4746031 / Link Gps -6.4763849
Gps Coordinates / 53.6953277,-6.4751377 / 53.694812,-6.4746031 / 53.6933669,-6.4763849
Several other passage tombs in Ireland are aligned with solstices and equinoxes, and Cairn G at Carrowkeel has a similar 'roofbox'. Newgrange also shares many similarities with other Neolithic constructions in Western Europe, especially Gavrinis in Brittany, which has both a similar preserved facing and large carved stones, in that case lining the passage within. Maeshowe in Orkney, Scotland, with a large high corbelled chamber, and Bryn Celli Ddu in Wales have also been compared to Newgrange.
After its initial use, Newgrange was sealed for several millennia. It continued to feature in Irish mythology and folklore, in which it is said to be a dwelling of the deities, particularly The Dagda and his son Aengus. Antiquarians first began its study in the seventeenth century, and archaeological excavations took place at the site in the years that followed. Archaeologist Michael J. O'Kelly led the most extensive of these and also reconstructed the frontage of the site from 1962–1975, a reconstruction that is controversial and disputed. Newgrange is a popular tourist site and, according to the archaeologist Colin Renfrew, is "unhesitatingly regarded by the prehistorians as the great national monument of Ireland" and as one of the most important megalithic structures in Europe.
During the Winter Solstice of 21st December the entrance creates a Druid light show
Before View Created by Funnystash
This was a Panorama 360 i artificially made myself, i taken some images from 1954 but stuck with one image from 1954 overlayen with Newgrange, it depicts the cattle grazing on the hills of newgrange with a viasbale depression before it was turned into an Irish national treasure and one of the Seven wonders of the world predating by many hundreds of years of many relics that are appreciated today.
During the awareness newgrange campaign of the 60's there were many skeptics that denied The Solstice entance view origins so these images of the Winter Solstice entrance from 1954 were of the upmost importance
