Apart from Poulnabrone Dolmen above, the other neolithic or late stone age monument that most people can name is of course Newgrange, the famous passage grave in the Boyne Valley which features the celebrated 'roof box' which allows the Winter Solstice sunrise to light up the inner chamber for around 17 days over the solstice period. It also has a large collection of Neolithic art inscribed on the stones of the chambers and passage way as well as the kerb stones that surround the mound.
Newgrange is deservedly world famous and is also a World Heritage site but many other passage tomb complexes exist across Ireland. From the western peninsula of Sligo to the east coast a wide band of tomb development moved across the country over 5,000 years ago starting with the simple boulder circles and chambers of Carrowmore, the 'artificial caves' of Carrowkeel, the Loughcrew complex (right)which sees an explosion of magnificent stone age art and what may have been the final pinnacle of the art at the Boyne Valley sites of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth.
Click here to go to the Passage Tomb page
Newgrange is deservedly world famous and is also a World Heritage site but many other passage tomb complexes exist across Ireland. From the western peninsula of Sligo to the east coast a wide band of tomb development moved across the country over 5,000 years ago starting with the simple boulder circles and chambers of Carrowmore, the 'artificial caves' of Carrowkeel, the Loughcrew complex (right)which sees an explosion of magnificent stone age art and what may have been the final pinnacle of the art at the Boyne Valley sites of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth.
Click here to go to the Passage Tomb page
Apart from Poulnabrone Dolmen above, the other neolithic or late stone age monument that most people can name is of course Newgrange, the famous passage grave in the Boyne Valley which features the celebrated 'roof box' which allows the Winter Solstice sunrise to light up the inner chamber for around 17 days over the solstice period. It also has a large collection of Neolithic art inscribed on the stones of the chambers and passage way as well as the kerb stones that surround the mound.
Newgrange is deservedly world famous and is also a World Heritage site but many other passage tomb complexes exist across Ireland. From the western peninsula of Sligo to the east coast a wide band of tomb development moved across the country over 5,000 years ago starting with the simple boulder circles and chambers of Carrowmore, the 'artificial caves' of Carrowkeel, the Loughcrew complex (right)which sees an explosion of magnificent stone age art and what may have been the final pinnacle of the art at the Boyne Valley sites of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth.
Click here to go to the Passage Tomb page
Newgrange is deservedly world famous and is also a World Heritage site but many other passage tomb complexes exist across Ireland. From the western peninsula of Sligo to the east coast a wide band of tomb development moved across the country over 5,000 years ago starting with the simple boulder circles and chambers of Carrowmore, the 'artificial caves' of Carrowkeel, the Loughcrew complex (right)which sees an explosion of magnificent stone age art and what may have been the final pinnacle of the art at the Boyne Valley sites of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth.
Click here to go to the Passage Tomb page
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