Pickup Time & Point:
The Molly Malone statue on Suffolk Street at 09:00am, Please be 10 minutes.
Newgrange Visit
Newgrange is the best-known Irish passage tomb and dates to c.3, 200BC. We will be able to enter this tomb and see some of the best megalithic art in Europe. The most impressive of these stones is the highly decorated Entrance Stone. Newgrange monument is astrologically aligned to the Winter solstice on December 21st.
Knowth: This is also part of the Bru Na Boinne tour at Newgrange. The impressive Great Mound at Knowth is similar in size to Newgrange and is surrounded by 18 smaller satellite mounds.
(Our Newgrange Tour can take approx. 3.5hrs)
Lunch Stop at Bru na Boinne Visitor Centre.
Monasterboice
Mainistir Bhuithe – “monastery of Buithe” is the 5th century monastic site founded by St Buithe.
The site includes the remains of two churches built in the 14th century and a Round Tower from the 10th century, but it is most famous for its Celtic High Crosses.
The round tower is about 28 metres tall, and is in very good condition. It was likely built shortly after 968 and damaged in a fire in 1098.
The three high crosses date from the 10th century and form part of the scriptural group (showing biblical scenes).
The 5.5-metre Muiredach's High Cross is regarded as the finest high cross in the whole of Ireland. It features Biblical Carvings from the Old and New Testaments.
It is named after an Abbot, Muiredach mac Domhnaill, who died in 923.
We return to Dublin for Approx 17:00.
