It’s a pity they chopped all the trees. Makes it look more authentic, the restoration does look a bit artificial although maybe someone more knowledgeable than me would know if the current structure is a closer reflection of the original structure
I was older than I’d like to admit before I found out it was restored, it suddenly made a lot more sense
“Restored” – the current appearance is one opinion of what the tomb may have looked like at one point in its history.
The part about some of its history staying alive as local gossip for 4000 years is amazing.
Newgrange……where the great masses attend on 21st December each year for the Great Disappointment.
I’d love to slap the person who decided to dig all this up and turn it into the tourist trap we have now. I hope to god they don’t do the same with the hellfire club now they have the go ahead. Hundreds of thousands of years these things are left be, and then our generation come along and fuck it all up.
Not Newgrange but in the same area the Knowth tomb was used as both a hillfort (and capital of the ancient Kingdom of Brega) and later as a motte by the Normans
Was just there today. shame you can’t go inside because of covid. Walked around it a couple of times and said okay. Visitor center was good though .
It’s well worth checking out Grange Stone Circle in near Lough Gur in Limerick. It’s the largest stone circle in Ireland and it’s more untouched than Newgrange. I believe it’s older than Newgrange too. It’s aligned with the summer solstice.
wasn’t your man who “restored” it, a bit of a quack gobshite? it’s unlikely it actually looked like how it does now. The steel enforced vertical retaining walls weren’t exactly possible in the Neolithic period. Kind of disgusting what they did to it tbh
The entrance was completely made up aswell
I remember a few summers back during the heat wave a done caught some pictures that showed what looked to be the outline in the ground of some other structure
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It’s a pity they chopped all the trees. Makes it look more authentic, the restoration does look a bit artificial although maybe someone more knowledgeable than me would know if the current structure is a closer reflection of the original structure
I was older than I’d like to admit before I found out it was restored, it suddenly made a lot more sense
“Restored” – the current appearance is one opinion of what the tomb may have looked like at one point in its history.
The part about some of its history staying alive as local gossip for 4000 years is amazing.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/incestuous-kings-may-have-built-irelands-newgrange-passage-tomb/
Newgrange……where the great masses attend on 21st December each year for the Great Disappointment.
I’d love to slap the person who decided to dig all this up and turn it into the tourist trap we have now. I hope to god they don’t do the same with the hellfire club now they have the go ahead. Hundreds of thousands of years these things are left be, and then our generation come along and fuck it all up.
Not Newgrange but in the same area the Knowth tomb was used as both a hillfort (and capital of the ancient Kingdom of Brega) and later as a motte by the Normans
Was just there today. shame you can’t go inside because of covid. Walked around it a couple of times and said okay. Visitor center was good though .
It’s well worth checking out Grange Stone Circle in near Lough Gur in Limerick. It’s the largest stone circle in Ireland and it’s more untouched than Newgrange. I believe it’s older than Newgrange too. It’s aligned with the summer solstice.
wasn’t your man who “restored” it, a bit of a quack gobshite? it’s unlikely it actually looked like how it does now. The steel enforced vertical retaining walls weren’t exactly possible in the Neolithic period. Kind of disgusting what they did to it tbh
The entrance was completely made up aswell
I remember a few summers back during the heat wave a done caught some pictures that showed what looked to be the outline in the ground of some other structure
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/massive-unknown-henge-at-newgrange-discovered-thanks-to-drought-and-drone-37108820.html
Did they ever dig that up or do anything with it?