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Your
Day Tour Includes -
0930
- Entrance into Interpretive centre at Bru na Boinne
(U.N.E.S.C.O World Heritage Centre) with its Audio visual and
interactive
exhibits. Entrance into Newgrange passage tomb
(Fully Guided Tour))
1230
– Visit Monasterboice with its magnificent High Crosses,
they are the finest examples off Medieval Christian carvings in
all of Europe. (Fully Guided Tour)
1350
– Visit to one of Irelands oldest traditional thatched pubs
“The Man O War” opened 1595 (A chance to pull your own
Guinness?)
1500
– Depart for Dublin city (Trinity College)
1600
– Tour finishes time to say farewell.
Newgrange
Visitor Centre
Allows the day tour visitor to explore magnificent artifacts
excavated on the site. With explanations and insights into the
monuments, its people, dating back to 3200 BC.
Entrance into centre is included in ticket price
Newgrange
Newgrange is a UNESCO
World Heritage Site
Brú na Bóinne – the Palace or Mansion of the Boyne
- is the name
given to one of the world’s most important archaeological
landscapes, dominated by the spectacular prehistoric passage
tombs of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. In recognition of the
international importance of these monuments and the
many other archaeological features in the area, UNESCO
has designated Brú na Bóinne a World Heritage
Site.
Constructed during the Neolithic or New Stone Age,
Winter Solstic
Above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange there is
an opening called a roof-box. Its purpose is to allow
sunlight
to penetrate the passage and chamber at sunrise around the
Winter Solstice. At 8:58am a narrow beam of light penetrates
the roof-box and reaches the floor of the chamber, gradually
extending to the rear of the passage. As the sun rises higher,
the beam widens within the chamber so that the whole room
becomes dramatically illuminated. After 17 minutes the sunbeam
leaves the chamber and retreats back down the passage.
Entrance into Newgrange
is LIMITED BOOK A SEAT
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