New Discoveries At Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland 1962
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- A team of archaeologists lead by Professor Michael J O’Kelly from University College Cork have made fresh findings at the centre mound of Newgrange in County Meath.
Discovered in 1699 the megalithic passage-tomb of Newgrange, is considered to be one of the best decorated tombs of its type in Western Europe. Along with nearby Knowth and Dowth, Newgrange forms a complex of archaeological sites at Brú na Bóinne in County Meath.
Prior to repair work being undertaken at Newgrange, Professor O’Kelly from University College Cork UCC and his team are excavating the site, to ensure the archaeological value of the tomb itself will not be damaged. The monument,
Now needs some repairs, so it was thought that the time had come when we should do some investigation around the edge of the mound before these repairs are undertaken.
Professor O’Kelly’s team consists of three students from Uppsala University in Sweden, two students from Harvard University and Helen Kelly and Elizabeth Murphy from UCC. They work alongside two local labourers.
Folklore says the High Kings of Tara were buried at Newgrange, but Professor O’Kelly dismisses this as Newgrange dates 2000 years before Tara became an important historical monument. He postulates that chieftains were buried inside, remaining untouched until the tomb was plundered in the ninth century by the Vikings.
Some of the new findings uncovered by Professor O’Kelly’s team include decorated kerbstones with chevron ornamentation and an intriguing mound of turf, which may be part of the passage grave itself or part of a preexisting structure made before the great cairn was thrown up.
The question to be solved now is,
Whether this turf mound is the same or an earlier time than the tomb or whether it belongs to an earlier time.
The answer to this could provide a very valuable contribution to archaeology.
Ninety-year-old Anne Hickey, caretaker of Newgrange mound for sixty years describes the customs and local superstitions held about the mound. She says old people think fairies live there and they are
Terrified of them.
There is also a white lady connected with the mound. This woman vanished when Anne Hickey approached her, mistaking her for a friend.
I was very vexed that she disappeared so quick without me getting a chat with her.
This episode of ‘Newsview’ was broadcast on 14 August 1962. The reporter is Sean Egan. 
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It’s Strange to think the majority of the people in this video are now deceased…..61 years ago, as I write this……so even the students at that time doing the digging would be in their 80s. Shows how absolutely lightning quick time does pass, and I shall pass too and so shall all who read this and those tombs will still stand where they have always stood. Crazy thought.
A very important video, thank you very much for making this video available for public viewing, whoever you are.
I could listen to the old woman telling stories all day
My boat’s name is White Lady
@@Coastwiser Like my neighbour's cat. They both must be reincarnations.
@Mary Marshall Absolutely. Oh she is very special. A mine of information, and very bright. God bless her.
Thanks so much for sharing! I live 10 mins from newgrange 😍
Same, Never realised Drogheda is the 6th biggest town/city in Ireland...
6:02 The Italian girl with the modern looking hoodie looks so strange compared to everyone else
Time-traveller?
Her hoodie has the Harvard logo so she is probably an American student.
I can’t believe we were not told of these discoveries at school. I first went there about 1970.
You just got unlucky with your teacher. I had the best history and geography in a tiny school in westmeath.
06:65 I made one of those things when I was small. He is supposed to pull the string tight!!
Lol. RTE on a budget. Microphones came later
“So much for the fairies. Science and progress marches on… etc” comment by interviewer and his superstitious nature unmasked after the curtesy’s of Mrs Ann Hickey 90yrs Newgrange’s oldest guardian of the day - totally disregarding her important testimony regarding the local history, habits, 🐐 and beliefs related locally to Newgrange. One hopes there are longer recordings in existence still shared equally between both the science and the guardians. Because many questions remain to today unanswered. Would love to see the full unedited reels?
As would I like to see the full recordings.
Couldn't agree more. I live in South Africa and was particularly interested to hear her speak about the goats and how the people worked with them. Goats are the animals used by Sangomas here in South Africa as physical mediums for communication with ancestors. So her testimony was of particular interest to me.
Thanks for this. You have some amazing videos.
thanks for posting. a brilliant wee film.
Another great upload
9.33 (mins) the Swedish student smoking away as he's digging!! 🤭
Dramatic recreation of the humble peasant at work! Thanks to Sir Walter Raleigh bringing back tobacco (as well as potato) from the New World, hardworking labourers smoked a pipe to stem the hunger pangs of their semi-starvation conditions. 🚬
Customs, you'll have no customs and traditions and be happy.
They can try
Lovely
Oh interesting. He wrongly said bronze age. I wonder if they hadn't properly dated it yet by that point.
'Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise'! Prof O'Kelly had tremendous insight, but there were many detractors & sceptics!
no mention of the light box , the most important aspect of the Bru .
it is the centre of the Gael universe .
They hadn't decided to invent that, yet.
That expose followed on shortly afterwards. You need to know the full story of how a dog going into what was considered a rabbit hole in the hill unmasked the ancient tumulus that Prof O'Kelly suspected was hidden there.
The bloody vikings
Irelands first knackers and junkies were the vikings
I demand reparations
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Iontach ar fad. Cuimhnionn me an-tOllamh o'n am a bhi me ag staidear i UCC fado fado. Ni bheidh a leithead de'n t-Ollamh Micheal O'Cheallaigh ann aris!
Tá sé maith ag féachaint cuid beag Gaeilge ar RUclips.
@@badethics7542 Mara dearfa as Bearla 'Use it, or Lose it'!
Repairs...hmmm. Desecration more like. After 4,000 years they decided to repair it.
for the tourists
Professors, TV people, Parish Priests, Bishops, TDs, Taoisigh, Bank Managers, School Heads et al took themselves terribly fooking seriously back in the 50s & 60s. I know this because I was reared in the countryside and I was 10 years old in 1962.
Most of the youth in their teens & twenties back them were busy having no involvement in Irish Music, Dance nor the Irish Language.
Perhaps Newgrange would have been best left alone until now given the enlightened approach of our present day Archaeologists on site.
I'm of the same vintage as you. I took a great amateur interest in ancient sites like Lough Gur Co Limerick. I think you must subscribe to the notion 'There's no future in History'! If you don't know where you came from, how can you know why/where you're going to?
Its the priests and religion they should of feared...nevermind the 🧚♂️...
They could find ancient archaeological artifacts but couldn't find out what was going on in the mother and baby homes at the present time..... Irish media folks, keep people distracted by the past
@@johnbalance3989 nothing, just like the gardai and government, you're missing the point little sheep
@@johnbalance3989 digging is their game is it not
@@alllovingcowherdboy4475 how's tusla, ooops you're still focusing on the church
@@johnbalance3989 Discovering cause of death and the society that allowed it?
And we give out about North Korea