Ireland - County Meath

Paola - Ireland - 20.07.2012

County Meath, Ireland

Highly decorated stone at the entrance to Newgrange Megalithic Tomb, a Unesco World Heritage site, County Meath, Ireland.

Newgrange is a prehistoric monument located in County Meath, on the eastern side of Ireland, about one kilometre north of the River Boyne. It was built around 3200 BC, during the Neolithic period. There is no agreement about what the site was used for, but it has been speculated that it had some form of religious significance because it is aligned with the rising sun, which floods the stone room with light on the winter solstice.