County: Meath Site name: NEWGRANGE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Professor M.J. O’Kelly, U.C.C.
Site type: Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 700642m, N 772721m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.694492, -6.476052
Excavations continued at this site for the ninth successive season. This year the examination of the periphery of the cairn on the east side of the entrance to the tomb was continued, and the Beaker settlement was investigated.
