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Mary Gibbon's Tours The Boyne Valley Tour
Newgrange
Kildare
Phone: 1 2839973
Fax: 1 2839973
MARY GIBBONS A member of Dublin Tourism, had worked as a Tour Guide, in such diverse places as China, Jerusalem, Rome and the Vatican City. She works as a Guide in Ireland and has a vast knowledge of the Country's History, Art, Architecture and Politics. Her style of guiding has made her one of Ireland's top tour Guides. MICHAEL GIBBONS (Mary's Brother) A native of Clifden, is one of Ireland's leading Field Archaeologists. A specialist in Irish Islands and uplands, he has discovered hundreds of antiquities including over fifty megalithic tombs and Bronze Age ritual monuments in Connemara and Aran. Michael has a wealth of experience gained from over 14 years of working and walking in such diverse places as the Negev Desert, Egyptian Sinai, Southern Greece, Roman London and throughout Ireland. He has contributed to numerous television and radio programmes at home and abroad.
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THE BOYNE VALLEY *Why Newgrange must be visited??
1. Newgrange is located in The Boyne Valley - a listed world heritage site along with the Great Wall of China, The Pyramids of Egypt, and Stonehenge.
2. Newgrange is a Neolithic Ritual Centre and Passage Tomb with architectural links to the pre-historic maritime peoples of Portugal, Northern Spain, Brittany and Denmark.
3. It's decorated entrance stone and Corbelled inner chamber display most impressively executed examples of abstract stone age art of the early farming communities in Western Europe.
4. These sophisticated early farmers were astronomers who incorporated a light-box and solar calender into the Newgrange passage. This was done to illuminate the cremated bones of the dead in the inner chamber during the winter solstice. It was also a symbolic technique to celebrate the re-birth in the after-life and the dawning of the new year.
5. Also learn of the famous Battle of the Boyne (a watershed in Irish History) where William of Orange (Holland) defeated James II of England in 1690. Note: No tours to Newgrange on 6th May - 3rd June - 5th August. Tour to Knowth is an equal alternative.
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