place of the River Boyne, is an
area in county Meath between
Slane and Drogheda and just a
gentle lowland journey from
Rath Cairn and Baile Ghib.
Here the royal and stately
River Boyne (famous long,
long, before its battles)
meanders quietly towards the
sea at Drogheda. Brú na
Bóinne is one of the world's
most important archaeological
landscapes, dominated by the
spectacular prehistoric
passage tombs of Newgrange,
Knowth and Dowth. In 1993,
the international significance
of Brú na Bóinne was
designated a World Heritage
Site by UNESCO.
Neolithic (New Stone Age)
farmers, these passage tombs
are truly remarkable remnants
of a highly evolved society
which by the fourth
millennium BC. had settled
widely across much of Western
Europe. Both ritual and
settlement were centred
around these tombs,
throughout the Bronze Age,
the Iron Age, and early
Christian times through the
Norman invasion and beyond.