KNOWTH
Knowth is the site of a tomb in corridor dating from Neolithic, belonging to the spectacular archeological complex of Brú na Bóinne. Although less famous than its neighbor Newgrange, with a few scraps, the Knowth site is to be discovered absolutely. His visit promises a journey in the past, through the ancestral culture of Ireland.
The main corridor dolmen houses two burial chambers located back and after two corridors of 34 and 40 m. The main tumulus is surrounded by another 18 dolmens in the corridor, with a smaller size… Which is the most fascinating in this site, it is the continuous succession "dwellings" of the neat period olithic (from 3,000 to 2,000 BC) to the occupation of Normandy (twelfth century). Thus, from the Christian period, from the I to XII centuries, the summit of the main tumulus served as a base of habitation: houses were built there. This passage, this geologic layer giving a vertical reading of history (first burial chamber, then Christian dwelling and Norman) is not without behaving, all the more so because the graveled stones surrounding this main tumulus bear the fingerprints of these different periods: spirals, hollows, neolithic circles to the figurative attempts of fish of the Christian era… While the site of Newgrange pays tribute to the Sun, Knowth, he, with his lunar cards engraved in stone, is dedicated to the Moon.
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