Brú na Bóinne
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Brú na Bóinne, incorrectly called the Boyne Valley tombs, is an ancient monument complex and ritual landscape in County Meath, Ireland, located in a bend of the River Boyne. It is one of the world's m
Newgrange passage tomb
Newgrange entrance
Newgrange passageway
Megalithic art on Newgrange kerbstone
Tuatha Dé Danann
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The Tuatha Dé Danann, also known by the earlier name Tuath Dé, are a supernatural race in Irish mythology. Many of them are thought to represent deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland.
Brú na Bóinne
…activity in the later Bronze Age, Iron Age and Middle Ages. In Irish mythology, the tombs are said to be portals to the Otherworld and dwellings of the deities, particularly The Dagda and his son Aengus. They began to be studied by antiquarians in the 18th century, and archaeological excavations began in the…
The Tuatha Dé Danann as depicted in John Duncan's Riders of the Sidhe (1911)