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The Newgrange cursus is a Neolithic monument that constitutes part of the Brú na Bóinne complex in Ireland.
The cursus is barely visible today but extended around 100 m from the valley of the River Mattock to climb the ridge occupied by the Newgrange tomb. Here it is rounded off by a terminal bank. The cursus was around 20 m wide. It is uncertain whether the cursus predates or post-dates Newgrange but may have been contemporary with four henges in the lower part of the river bend and is positioned so as to be potentially used as a ceremonial approach towards (or away from) these later monuments.
External links
Source
Lewis-Williams, D and Pearce, D, Inside the Neolithic Mind, Thames and Hudson, London, 2005, ISBN 0-500-05138-0
World Heritage Sites in Ireland Brú na Bóinne Dowth • Knowth • Newgrange • Monknewton • Newgrange cursus • Townleyhall passage grave
Others Skellig Michael • Giant's Causeway (Northern Ireland)
Tentative list The Burren • The Historic City of Dublin • The Céide Fields and North West Mayo Boglands • Western Stone Forts • The Monastic City of Clonmacnoise and its Cultural Landscape • Early Medieval Monastic Sites (Clonmacnoise, Durrow, Glendalough, Inis Cealtra, Kells, and Monasterboice) • The Royal Sites of Ireland: (Cashel, Dún Ailinne, the Hill of Uisneach, the Rathcroghan Complex, and the Tara Complex)
Categories:- Archaeological sites in County Meath
- Neolithic Europe
- World Heritage Sites in the Republic of Ireland
- Megalithic monuments in Europe
- European archaeology stubs
- Irish building and structure stubs
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