Two views of Newgrange

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Two views of Newgrange by artist Richard Moore

In various mythical sources, Newgrange is given different names. It was known as Brug Oengusa, Brug mac ind Oc, and Síd in Broga, meaning the Brú (meaning 'mansion', or, curiously, 'womb') of Oengusa, or Aonghus, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Few visitors to Newgrange leave the site without a tremendous feeling of the great power of the place, and the natural beauty of the surrounding landscape. The brilliant milky quartz face of Newgrange, reconstructed after extensive experimental archaeology by Professor Michael J. O'Kelly, who excavated the site from 1962 to 1975, provides a stunning visual focus for the monuments of the Brú na Bóinne area.

Newgrange by Richard Moore

WHITE FACADE

These two beautiful paintings by Richard Moore capture that distinctive facade in the context of the site. The standing stones, originally part of a great circle of up to 38 stones, and now numbering just 12 in total, stand like sentries at the castle entrance. At Winter Solstice sunrise, some of the stones cast shadows on the kerbstones of the main mound.

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