🌀 Newgrange
Ireland
About This Sacred Site
Newgrange is a prehistoric passage tomb in County Meath's Brú na Bóinne complex, built around 3200 BCE — making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. The large circular mound covers a 19-meter stone passage leading to a cruciform chamber. On the winter solstice, sunlight enters through a roof box above the entrance and illuminates the inner chamber for about 17 minutes. Newgrange was likely a sacred site for rituals connected to death, rebirth, and the astronomical calendar.
Key Facts
- •Built around 3200 BCE, making it over 5,000 years old — older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid
- •A roof box allows sunlight to illuminate the inner chamber precisely at winter solstice sunrise
- •The entrance stone is covered in elaborate megalithic spiral art
- •The mound is 85 meters in diameter and 13 meters high, covering roughly one acre
- •Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne along with Knowth and Dowth
Location
Coordinates: 53.6947, -6.4755
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