Anyone interested in
archeology will be interested in Newgrange. It is found in the Boyne Valley in
County Meath and can be very interesting. You cannot enter Newgrange directly,
you need to go through the Visitors’ Center at Brù na Bóinne. If you are
planning to visit there, check out this website before going:
This website will give
you the pertinent information that you will need in order to make your visit
enjoyable.
Newgrange is a world
heritage site designated by UNESCO. It dates back over 5,000 years to the Neolithic
or stone age and has been recently recognized as a temple in addition to the
status of monument as it was previously known as. It predates the Egyptian
pyramids and Stonehenge.
Newgrange has found to
be of greater importance for religious and ceremonial purposes, astrological
purposes, and spiritual purposes than what was originally understood. This is
why it is said that Newgrange is much more than just a passage tomb.
There is the fact that
Newgrange was designed to have the chamber and passage illuminated by sunlight
on the Winter Solstice. The archeologists indicate that, in order to have this
type of building capacity, the community had to have been a well-structured and
knowledgeable community, with specialist groups for various stages of building.
Newgrange is one of
the places to go to celebrate the Winter Solstice, especially if you have a
cloudless day. If you have the opportunity to go, it may prove to be quite an
experience.
I was looking forward
to the ride to Newgrange, but, unfortunately, my body did not want to
co-operate with me that day. I am looking forward to the day that I can go back
and see what the archeologists found, and dream of times long ago.
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