Newgrange; Very Rare Film Footage Before 'Reconstruction' -

ooh that music was perfect! I'm sorry but visiting bru na boinne nowadays feels like visiting a new house constructed out of stones from Hadrians wall. There's no soul to it and it looks completely ridiculous! The other structures in the Boyne valley send tingles down the spine, but that reconstructed monstrosity brings a tear to the eye with cultural vandalism.

I know this will be news to you Thomas but When I visited Newgrange around 10 years ago the tour guide did actually say that maybe it was something to do with fertility, that it's name was very close to the Irish for "womb" which is "broinn".
That was the first time I ever heard such a theory. Interestingly "broinne" is the Irish word for "breast/bosom".

I remember visiting Newgrange from primary school every year. I also remember my shock when it suddenly turned from a mysterious green, slightly spooky green mound to a glaring white wall!

My wife visited the site in 2013, amazing. History must be preserved.

Thanks for sharing that with us Thomas; as always your fan; Matt

This clip is a fantastic find. Thank you for sharing it.

Amazing !! So interesting 👍

“Preserved” = Irish for “utterly destroyed”
Fake and phony re-build, but hey - we needed a gift shop, right?

I was there last year, the first thing I thought was, it’s been pebble dashed

I visited Newgrange on a school trip when I was 7 years old in 1960. It looked much like it does in this video. There was an archaeological dig going on near the tumulus at the time and we were told that if we found anything, we should bring it to the team. Well I found this small, smooth, flat piece of white stone with the head of a celtic cross incised on it. I was very excited and showed it to the man in charge of the work. He took it from me, had a quick look, and told me it wasn't important. Naturally, I thought he'd give it back, but to my surprise, he threw it away where I couldn't retrieve it. I was so disappointed and of course, I've never forgotten about it. Needless to say, I had no further interest in helping after that.

It was a ritual to bring a White stone to a burial site as in many sites in Scotland during a pilgrimage....is it a possibility that the stones where brought over many years after , and placed on the mound rather than part of the original construction.... I believe an interpretation of reconstruction used these stones to create a structure and facade.....but is that actually accurate.

how did it get buried?

These are sacred monuments that hold the true core of the country's heart. Time to stand up and make it so but will the government and society do so in this day and age?

I think that the spirals on the large entrance stone represent the transit of the planet Venus as it travels across the night sky on one of its eight year cycles.......Venus used to light up the Passage, before all the modern light pollution......T

I won the lottery!!!
The opportunity to witness the sun rise, on the shortest day, from inside the oldest megalith, Newgrange,
thro' the wonderful lightbox opening and illuminate us all along the passageway.
I travelled from Canada to Ireland, climbed the hill in the middle of the night,
and waited, ..............and waited, ............and waited..............and............
nothing happened! The sun never rose, never penetrated the passageway.
It pissed rain, the clouds of our wonderful Irish weather obscured the original invented celestial experience.
I won an opportunity, not a guarantee. So grateful to witness cool construction.

"Reconstruction' - is this the most ghastly 'Reconstruction' ever. Newgrange today is unrecognizable - it looks like a Disney Theme Park - need a vivid imagination it's 5000 years. Has there ever been a more ghastly 'Reconstruction'. Perhaps, I'm missing something. Glad whoever sanctioned the Reconstruction didn't get near Stonehenge, Chichén Itzá.

Reconditioned😂😂😂😂 it's a disgrace what they did you it

I visited many years ago with an Irish relative. She gave me a piece of quartz to take home from a chunk she had picked up From the site in her youth. I still have it in my jewelry box.

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A man exercising both his legs and his imagination. Should have been left alone instead of just trying to assume it's true form. Now it looks like they had a liking for big mushrooms. Perhaps they had)

Conditioned like Stonehenge concrete slapped everywhere removed,reseated etc

Love it....

Thomas will you give us your thoughts on the recent Stonehenge "incident"? Thank you & thank you for this video

It was there for centuries, and despite this, it was never torn apart for stone or damaged. That says a lot.

My paternal grandmothers sister was custodian of Newgrange for 60 years .
The late Mrs Annie Hickey..

Our heritage is very important, I've noticed in Ireland they have people without any background in heritage managing site's and trying to run these places like hotels...

Trying to do a tidy town's job on what should have been in keeping with the time's...

The national trust in the UK have been great for preservation and in keeping with the time these places originated.....

Living museums they should be

still you Irish are miles ahead of us here in Germany, having the old stones at least acknowledged. The 'official' acknowledgement by itself is worthless too imo, but it would at least help to protect cairns and burial mounds in our forests from senseless destruction. I'll have to visit the sites across the canal one time

Great find and I like the music too it

I only saw it for the first time last week. Meath is an awesome county

very cool video ✨

All you Want now is the New Arrivals!
They'll Certainly Enrich that Beautiful Ancient Land!

As always, thank you 😊

what a great bit of archive film, thanks Thomas

Cwoar big recumbents

I'm no expert but those lines on the large stone... didn't it look like sign waves....

I've seen lots of talk that the quartz vertical structure was in fact a circular pavement, if you will. Does this look like a reconstructed Newgrange?. It looks "tidied", but not rebuilt as some would have it?. Went inside 20 odd years ago. Magnificent

preserved" he says!
yer! right! what a shame, breaks my heart
thanks for this 🙏🏻🙏🏻

The ancient future.

"Reconditioned" 🤨

Makes you tingle all over! Thanks, Thomas.

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Brú na Bóinne is among the most fascinating and intriguing monuments in all of western Europe. Thanks you for uploading this.

Thanks Thomas