- Newgrange is the most
famous of a group of over 300 passage graves built in cemeteries
throughout Ireland except in the extreme south and west. To this
group belong Dowth and Knowth, also in the Boyne Valley, the
cairns of Loughcrew and Carrowkeel, and Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea
outside Sligo. All 300 are monuments to the most capable organisers,
architects and artists ever to have entered and influenced Ireland
in the whole of prehistory.
- Michael
Herity, Irish Passage Graves, 1974
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