Visiting the Bru na Boinne Interpretive Center: Newgrange and Knowth - neolithic sites.
The Knowth site.
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The kerb stones. Knowth has highest number of neolithic kerb stones found at 1 site in Europe.
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Other structures at Knowth.
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View of Dowth from Knowth hill. Dowth is not open to the public as excavation is still in progress.
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Views from Knowth - it has at a notably high elevation for the area.
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More kerb stone around Knowth.
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Believed to be the original entrance.
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Other burials at Knowth.
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Part of an old tunnel is open for you to crawl through.
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Whew! She made it!!
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The approach to the infamous Newgrange.
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You are only able to go in a short ways. This a shot down from where we had to stop.
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The massively reproduced entrance kerb stone at Newgrange.
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Another structure at Newgrange.
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One of the surrounding kerb stones at Newgrange.
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The entrance to Newgrange. Tours are taken in, it is quite amazing. They do a simulation of winter solstice as this was believed to be the major event.
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Matt and Erica also bore witness to aura of the ancients from within the mound.
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Newgrange as we left.
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