Newgrange, county Meath

- before it was excavated.

The circle was erected (probably by the same 'ethnocultural group' who erected the circle at Ballynoe )
after the tomb was built, perhaps to incorporate it into a new form of sanctity,
as old churches in Ireland were taken over from the Celtic rite first by the Roman orthodoxy,
then later by the Anglicans.

O 007 727 - Sheet 43

Nearest town: Drogheda



A slightly-later view of the entrance before it was "restored".

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