Newgrange

Or New Grange

[noo-greynj, nyoo-]

noun

1. the largest of three mound-covered passage graves on the river Boyne in county Meath, Ireland, built c3000 b.c., having a corbeled roof and hammered geometric engravings and containing traces of cremation burials.

Example Sentences

Newgrange took the five-horse 1 1/16-mile San Antonio Stakes by an effortless 2 ¼ lengths for D’Amato and jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., who flew in from Gulfstream to ride 10 of the 11 races on Tuesday.

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Steeped in Irish history, Duleek is located a few kilometres from Newgrange - part of the Brú na Bóinne Unesco World Heritage Site.

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That design is found in exactly one place in Ireland, the impressive prehistoric passage tomb in County Meath called Newgrange, which was built roughly 2,000 years before any tangible evidence had appeared anywhere of the Celtic culture and Celtic languages that had spread across northwestern Europe by Julius Caesar's time.

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Let's get back to Newgrange, which was built way before the Bell Beaker folk and the imaginary Celts: I'm not telling you to scrub off that triple-spiral tattoo in shame.

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Furthermore, Newgrange is an amazing place and you should definitely go.

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