Newgrange (Irish: Dún Fhearghusa) is the most famous prehistoric site in all of Ireland. It is one of the tombs (a burial tomb) of the Brú na Bóinne complex in the County Meath district, about 50 kilometers north of the city of Dublin, and was added to UNESCO’s cultural heritage list in 1993. According to the results of carbon dating, the structure was built about 3200 BC. built, making it about 600 years older than the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, and about 900 years older than Stonehenge in England. The monument is a passage grave.
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