Newgrange Farm Archaeological Park and Newgrange Chamber tour 2025
Join Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland - author, photographer, tour guide and archaeological discoverer - on an exploration of the monuments and mythology of Newgrange Farm at Brú na Bóinne, and a visit to the chamber of Newgrange with OPW guides.About this experience
Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland – author, photographer, tour guide and archaeological discoverer – will lead a new tour of the monuments and mythology of Newgrange Farm at Brú na Bóinne. The tours will include a visit to the Newgrange Monument, where participants will also visit the interior chamber of the famous monument with OPW guides.
The tours will take place on various dates throughout the summer, beginning on Tuesday 13th May, and will visit the archaeological landscape of Newgrange Farm monuments which covers a substantial area of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage site around Newgrange, incorporating a significant cluster of monuments dating from the Neolithic into the medieval period, covering several thousand years of human activity.
Anthony, the discoverer in 2018 of ‘Dronehenge’ a gigantic Late Neolithic henge monument situated in one of the fields of Newgrange Farm, will lead tours of the significant monuments and ancient myths and legends associated with this world-class heritage park which contains the greatest concentration of Late Neolithic henge monuments anywhere in the world.
The tours will take place on a tractor-hauled specially modified trailer, where tour participants will get a close-up glimpse of ancient passage-tombs, henges, standing stones and other remarkable features of the ancient past.
“Newgrange Farm contains many of the monuments that make up the Brú na Bóinne archaeological complex, including a host of structures which were originally made of timber and which were unknown until they were revealed in drone imagery during the drought of July 2018,” Anthony said.
“The tour offers a glimpse into a remarkable ancient past, looking at both the monumental archaeological landscape and indeed the mythological landscape because there are many myths associated with the Brú na Bóinne monuments. Some of these ancient stories appear to contain information about the monuments that could not have been known when they were written down in the Middle Ages.”
“What we’re seeing at Newgrange Farm is one of the most important archaeological monument complexes anywhere in Europe, and indeed the world,” he added.
“This tour is an opportunity to see that landscape up close, and to get an insight into the size and nature of the monuments, the materials from which they were constructed, and the people who built them. Along with that, we have many myths and legends, and some of these refer to an Oenach (assembly) site at Brú na Bóinne, the remnants of which I think were discovered during the drought in 2018, when Newgrange Farm shot to international fame.”
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Anthony Murphy has been leading tours of the monuments and landscapes of Ireland's Ancient East for the past 18 years. He gives regular public tours as well as leading private groups through the Boyne Valley landscape. He is the author of ten books about the myths and monuments of Ireland's eastern region. He has appeared on National Geographic, Discovery Science, The History Channel, Channel 4, BBC and RTÉ as an expert on the mythology, archaeology and history of the area. In 2018, he discovered a giant Late Neolithic henge monument close to Newgrange.