What is recorded here

Newgrange and its neighbours in County Meath are Neolithic passage tombs built around 3200 BC, older than the pyramids of Giza and still aligned to let winter-solstice light strike the inner chamber. Their massive stones, intricate carvings and satellite mounds suggest a place of ritual memory rather than ordinary burial, where the dead may have been kept within a landscape made sacred by sunlight. To walk their passages is to enter a world in which engineering, astronomy and grief were one act of imagination.

The effigy of a woman (H 1.3m; Wth 0.46m) sculpted in a shroud that is lacking the head and upper body (Hunt 1974, 214) was moved to St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland church in Slane (ME019-023001-) where it is displayed on the S wall of the vestry. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July, 2014

Effigial tomb, medieval period; the tomb features a sculpted effigy of a woman, significant as a rare example of medieval funerary art in Ireland.

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