Celtic PantheonTomb
Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú)
A grand prehistoric passage tomb and the home of the Dagda (and later Aengus). Associated with the winter solstice.
About Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú)
Brug na Boinne
The Neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange is, in medieval Irish, Brug na Boinne, house of the Dagda and then of Oengus (Mac Oc), who tricks his father out of the Brug in Tochmarc Etaine and related dindshenchas. The winter-solstice light-box is archaeology; the Tuatha De stories are a thousand years and more later. Do not pretend the builders left the Dagda's name. The literature reuses a spectacular mound as a sidhe.
On the map
Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú) among other places of the Celtic Pantheon.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Tochmarc Etaine / Brug na Boinne dindshenchas tradition
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