Martina Devlin: Newgrange, a majestic marvel that outshines the bells and whistles of our high-tech age any day
Ireland is just over a century old as a state, but in civilisation terms our roots stretch back thousands of years, as the approaching winter solstice reminds us. Newgrange, a solstice monument, is 5,200 years old – constructed hundreds of years before Egypt’s revered pyramids and Sphinx, or the main phase of Stonehenge on Britain’s Salisbury Plain.
Source: independent.ie
