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Mound of the Hostages |
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Lia Fail |
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Mound of the hostages, Hill of Tara |
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Ganesh running from the Mound of the Hostages |
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Newgrange |
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Entrance Stone (note tri-spiral on left, unique to Newgrange) |
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Wooden circle of enclosed village next to Newgrange (later) |
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A decorated curbstone |
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Little mound in next field - there are 2 such little mounds either side of Newgrange, making 5 in a nearly straight line |
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Entrance Stone (as 674) |
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Entrance showing roof box (unique to Newgrange) |
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Close up of roof box. This lined up with the horizon and the floor of the tomb chamber (the passageway having risen about 2 metres in height.) The 2 days before, day and 2 days after the winter solstice, the sun can shine through the roof box illuminating the passageway with the only direct sunlight it ever gets... unless it's cloudy. |
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Ganesh crawling through an early Christian souterrain |
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... and coming out the other side 19 seconds later |
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Eastern Passage at Knowth |
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An early Christian souterrain (perhaps used as a cold-store) |
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Wood Circle |
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Ganesh in a ditch |
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West Entrance to Knowth |
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Knowth is a big mound surrounded by lots of smaller mounds - here are 2 of the smaller ones |
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Big mound and a little neighbouring mound |
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Island |
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Cliffs |
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Causeway head |
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Folk quartet |
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... the bodhran player is going so fast that we can't see the beater |