Newgrange
Newgrange is one of the passage tombs of the Brú na Bóinne complex in County Meath, one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world and the most famous of all Irish prehistoric sites. Passage tombs, as the name implies, consist of a passage leading to a chamber where the remains of the dead (usually cremated) were placed. Newgrange was built in such a way that at dawn on the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, a narrow beam of sunlight for a very short time illuminates the floor of the chamber at the end of the long passageway.
Newgrange was originally built between 3300-2900 BC, which means that it is over 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge trilithons by about 1,000 years.
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Newgrange
Newgrange 
Interior 
Entrance and Entry Stone 
Entry Stone 
Entry/Exit 
Solstice 
Other Passage Tombs 
Newgrange
Newgrange
Interior
Entrance and Entry Stone
Entry Stone
Entry/Exit
Solstice
Other Passage Tombs