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Home > Inevitably, with the large crowd and media presence, people take their chance to protest and make their views known. This year it is the turn of the Tara Valley to be brought into the spotlight, the ancient capital and ceremonial centre of Ireland is facing an uncertain future, with the construction of a motorway and interchange through the valley itself already begun. Click on the small '2' below to continue on..
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Home > Shadows and Stone Exhibition Brú na Bóinne Visitors Centre, Donore, Co. Meath 10th -24th April Photographer Ken Williams presents the first Shadows and Stone solo exhibition at the state of the art Brú na Bóinne visitors centre over the forthcoming Easter period 2006. This exhibition will showcase a broad selection of framed images from this site, featuring megalithic sites from every corner of the island. In addition to the framed pieces, you can also browse a broader selection of images at the photobook stand. Over the two weekends of the 15th/16th and 22nd/23rd of April Ken will be present to discuss the images, the sites, photography in general or just a friendly chat. Mounted prints and cards will be available to purchase and a sale of work on Sunday the 23rd will allow purchasers to pay and take away the specially selected, signed and dated framed pieces. April is a great time to visit the centre itself and the Newgrange and Knowth passage tombs before the peak season and the long queues for tour places. The centre features a permanent exhibition of Neolithic life and the stone monuments including an audio visual presentation.It has a fully stocked tourism information point/shop and a seated cafe serving hot/cold food and coffees. For directions to the centre, click here to find out more about the centre, click here or visit the offical webpage here for opening times and admission charges.
Home > Newgrange Passage Tomb, Co. Meath. A new set of photos taken at sunset in November, also more information on the site. Click here to view
Home > Although the nearby mounds at Knowth feature far more megalithic art, and is a larger more complex site, Newgrange has become world famous after observations made during excavations cofirmed what local folklore had always attested. The small aperture above the door of the entrance with its intriguing carved lintel, though it is pretty inconspicuous, allows one of the worlds first known solar observatories to function with amazing accuracy today as it has done for the past 6,000 years. The midwinter sunrise on the shortest day of the year shines through this aperture, up the sloping passageway and into the very heart of the inner chamber 19 metres inside the mound. The thin ribbon of light allows the observer to determine the traditional festival at winter solstice with stunning accuracy.
Home > The entrance to the tomb as it stands today, with some people to indicate scale. In the foreground is the stump of a standing stone from the circle and the kerbstones to the west of the passage can also be seen.
Home > During the excavation the quartz stones which had fallen forward from the mound were built into a dazzling white facade after experimentation and analysis of how the stones fell indicated that a tall, steep outer wall was the most likely method of construction originally, though this wall fell within hundreds of years after the tomb was finished.
Home > The Great Stone Circle is not a complete circle at all, though stones are dotted around the mound there are many large gaps where excavations revealed no sockets for additional stones. These three in particular are situated just outside the entrance to the passage and the shadow of the middle stone reportedly hits the entrance stone on winter solstice morning.
Inevitably, with the large crowd and media presence, people take their chance to protest and make their views known. This year it is the turn of the Tara Valley to be brought into the spotlight, the ancient capital and ceremonial centre of Ireland is facing an uncertain future, with the construction of a motorway and interchange through the valley itself already begun.

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Home > Inevitably, with the large crowd and media presence, people take their chance to protest and make their views known. This year it is the turn of the Tara Valley to be brought into the spotlight, the ancient capital and ceremonial centre of Ireland is facing an uncertain future, with the construction of a motorway and interchange through the valley itself already begun. Click on the small '2' below to continue on..
Inevitably, with the large crowd and media presence, people take their chance to protest and make their views known. This year it is the turn of the Tara Valley to be brought into the spotlight, the ancient capital and ceremonial centre of Ireland is facing an uncertain future, with the construction of a motorway and interchange through the valley itself already begun.

Click on the small '2' below to continue on..
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