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Newgrange images

These photographs show the reconstructed white quartz facade at Newgrange, with rounded granite cobbles set among the quartz, and the standing stones that stand before the entrance.

Curving Newgrange facade of white quartz and grey granite cobbles above large dark kerbstones, against a blue sky. Newgrange white quartz facade, Boyne Valley.
Close view of Newgrange reconstructed wall: jagged white quartz packed tightly with rounded grey granite cobbles set among them. Newgrange quartz with granite stones, Ireland's Ancient East.
Newgrange entrance with white quartz facade and large standing stones on the grass in the foreground. Newgrange standing stones, Ireland's Ancient East.

Newgrange, World Heritage Site

Newgrange is a 5,200-year-old passage tomb in the Boyne Valley in Ireland's Ancient East. Newgrange has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The mound is 85 m (279 ft) in diameter and 13 m (43 ft) high, an area of about 1 acre. The passage and chamber are aligned with the rising sun on the mornings around the winter solstice.

Archaeologists classified Newgrange as a passage tomb, but it is now recognised to be much more than that. Ancient temple is a more fitting description: a place of spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance, much as present-day cathedrals are places of prestige and worship where dignitaries may be laid to rest.

More images: Newgrange images, page 3, page 4, and kerbstones.

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