Newgrange

Newgrange
/nooh"graynj', nyooh"-/, n.
the largest of three mound-covered passage graves on the river Boyne in county Meath, Ireland, built c3000 B.C., having a corbeled roof and hammered geometric engravings and containing traces of cremation burials.
Also, New Grange.

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