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New interactive Boyne Valley sites map
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With all of the recent archaeological surveying and imaging in the Bend of the Boyne area, a whole raft of previously unknown monuments, landscape features and possible monuments have been discovered. As a result of all these discoveries and revelations, I've decided to create a brand new interactive ancient sites map of the Boyne Valley to incorporate all of these new discoveries. The new Flash map is designed to show information about the known monuments in addition to many of the new discoveries. There are many different types of monuments featured, including passage-tombs, barrows, ringforts, enclosures, standing stones, ritual ponds, causeways, cursus monuments, field systems, earthworks, possible mounds, destroyed monuments and more. I am in consultation with archaeologists with a view to improving the information provided and to even increase the number of monuments featured. To see the new map CLICK HERE |
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Fascinating new discoveries at Dowth |
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Several possible "new" monuments, previously unrecorded, have been revealed by LiDAR imagery and other techniques in the Bend of the Boyne area in recent times. Among these is a possible causeway or routeway running from Dowth towards the nearby huge henge (Site Q) and on towards a destroyed stone circle at Cloghalea. The Dowth causeway is a unique feature, heretofore unknown. However, it is not yet known from which period in history or prehistory it might date. It could possibly be a feature incorporated into the Dowth Estate at some stage, although this seems unlikely, because, according to archaeologists, it seems to run "under" the Dowth Hall mansion on the estate. Another fascinating "discovery" on the LiDAR imagery shows what could be a double ditched cursus running northeastwards from Dowth passage-tomb towards Ballyboy Lake. See this page for more information. |
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Newgrange & Pyramids 36 degrees apart |
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| A previously documented fact, and one now backed up by information from Google Earth, shows that the 5,200-year-old passage-mound of Newgrange, in the Boyne Valley, Ireland, is located exactly 36 degrees of angular separation from the great Giza Pyramids in Egypt, which represents exactly one tenth of the earth's circumference. Is this just an extraordinary coincidence? Read more on this page. |  |
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Newgrange - Monument to Immortality
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Many people who visit the ancient and magnificent Newgrange monument in the Boyne Valley are driven by some deep longing to connect with their most distant roots. The giant 5,000-year-old megalithic construction evokes awe and wonderment, and often a sense of melancholy for the community of people who created it from stone and earth in the remote past, a people now lost to time. For the past three centuries, archaeologists, antiquarians, and researchers have been probing Newgrange in the hope of revealing something about its purpose, and something about the mysterious people of the New Stone Age who created giant structures using primitive technology. In this fascinating book, Anthony Murphy shows that Newgrange is not only a uniquely special place, but that its construction was carried out not by a grizzly mob of grunting barbarians, but rather by an advanced agrarian community who had developed keen skills in the sciences of astronomy, engineering and architecture. Newgrange: Monument to Immortality goes deep into the mind and soul of our neolithic ancestors to better understand what led them to build this remarkable monument. In a deeply moving, poetic and philosophical exploration, Murphy looks beyond the archaeology and the astronomy to reveal a much more profound and sacred vision of a sophisticated people who were driven to create this marvellous testament to their time. This significant book reflects for me a person who has access to large regions of the intelligence of the universe within themselves, a person who has expanded beyond the confines of the rigid left brain and is in contact with heart knowledge, someone who has allowed themselves to become a conduit for the energies of Newgrange to flow out into the wider world in 2012. - Dolores Whelan For more information about the book, visit the Newgrange: Monument to Immortality page or the blog site or, to order a copy, visit The Liffey Press website. |
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Video trailer for new Newgrange book |
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| The above video is a short (4 minute) trailer taking a quick preview at Anthony Murphy's new book, 'Newgrange - Monument to Immortality', being published this winter. | |||
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| What
is Mythical Ireland?
- read about the project, or view the Mythical
Ireland flash movie. Mythical Ireland has won 17 awards. Last updated on December 30th, 2012. |
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"Peace
mounts to the heavens, the heavens descend to earth, earth lies under
the heavens,
everyone is strong . . ." Victory song of the Morrigan,
Book of Fermoy
"In the old time the people used to be looking at the moon and at the sun and the rest of the stars, travelling and ever-travelling, through the day, and at the flowing and ever-flowing of the world's wells and rivers, and at the sadness of the earth and the trance and the sleep of it with the coming of winter, and the rising of the world again with the coming of the summer." Great Wonders of the Olden Time, from Lady Gregory's Saints and Wonders
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