Newgrange-in and around the visitors centre

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Newgrange-surrounding the mound

There are more recent additions-more recent like iron age peoples.

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Newgrange entrance

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Newgrange-surrounding stones

These stones surround the Newgrange mound. I have zoomed up the contrast on some of the photos so you can see the markings more clearly. I find them amazing.

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Newgrange

So, here is Newgrange. It's been excavated and you can go inside. There are smaller mounds in the fields that surround it, and you can see one in the hayfield across the road. There are other buildings and walls and even Celtic structures that sourround the big mound.

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Knowth

Here is Knowth, and as close as you get without being an archeologist. It is being excavated.



















The telephoto helps a bit.





















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Dowth

The Dowth mound is right next to this big house. I hope Marcia has the name of the owner in her notes. Anyway, he was a significant figure in Irish history and lived in Boston for a time. Great house and house ruins and family cemetery.

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Boyne River

There was a battle here-basically about whether there would be a Protestant or Catholic monarch. Prots won. It is the roots of "the troubles". Win is such a relative term.

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Tara Hill and Us

The Celts built with wood, so there is nothing left but the hills and monuments put here by later peoples.

Self portrait with camera at arms length.

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Tara Hill-Marcia and Miles and Miles of Ireland

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