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Mound of the Hostages
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Lia Fail
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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
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