Newgrange Interior - Passage and Chamber

More images from the interior of Newgrange

Newgrange Chamber

Amazing megalithic art carved on the underside of the roof stone in the east recess off the main chamber inside the mound at Newgrange.

Symbols on roof stone - east recess - New Grange

Another view of the megalithic art carved on the roof stone of the east recess off the main chamber inside the mound at Newgrange. Unfortunately the slab has cracked and two sections have moved slightly out of alignment.

View of the corbelled roof over the chamber inside the mound at Newgrange, the final roof slab is 12 ft (3.6m) above the floor.

Lozenge symbols - New Grange

Lozenge design on the corbel beneath the roof stone of the east recess is similar to the megalithic art at Fourknocks

New Grange - Stone Basin

Stone basin in the right hand recess off the main chamber inside the mound at Newgrange

New Grange - Sprial Symbols at the back of the west recess

Spiral symbols at the back of the west recess off the main chamber.

Corbel on the south side of the west recess - New Grange

Corbel on the south side of the west recess, similar to the patterns at Fourknocks

New Grange - Symbols

Roofslab over opening to passage from the chamber at Newgrange.

Megalithic Art - east recess

Corbel at back of east recess.

New Grange - View from Chamber

A view of the entrance from the floor of the chamber, the passage rises 6ft (2m) from the entrance so that the roofbox is lined up with the chamber.

New Grange - Tri Spiral

New Grange - Representation of a fern or maybe a sheef of wheet

The tri-spiral design (above) on orthostat C10 in the north recess at the back of the chamber at New Grange is probably the most famous Irish Megalithic symbol.

The design is often called a triple spiral; however archaeologists call it the three-spiral stone.

The tri-spiral is often referred to as a Celtic design, however it was carved about 2500 years before the Celts reached Ireland.

The tri-spiral design is quite small in size at 30x28cm (12x11 inches) which is less than one-third the size of the similar design on the entrance stone.

This interesting symbol (left) from the side stone of the west recess looks like a representation of a fern or maybe a sheaf of wheat.

More images from the interior of New Grange.