Bards and poets were highly respected and held high positions in bru na bionne and throughout Ireland and as you can hear in the narration of this documentary it carry’s through in its people to this day.

I was at the Hill of Tara a few weeks ago. I had to drive through Navan to get to it. Navan seems relatively normal, but I didn't stop. The Hill of Tara is covered in dogshit, west-brits, and disappointed foreign tourists. I'd rather be under a tree west of the Shannon in a hurricane that go there ever again.

I visited Ireland and it was beautiful--I guess my adopted father thought I should see where most of my heritage came from. I remember it as a very lovely place. I'd love to visit the holy places, like Tara and Newgrange...maybe one day.

My wife and I have been there three times for a total of 48 days. Still so, so many places to see. Such a historical island!

Oh, iffits a Colleen it's a lovely Irish Lilt, man!

Ah how times have changed. It wasn't long ago (and still true in some places) that an Irish accent was not a mark of "highly intelligent, cultured" people as you say, but quite the opposite. :) Here's a great description of the Irish from days past: "They use their fields mostly for pasture. Little is cultivated and even less is sown. The problem here is not the quality of the soil but rather the lack of industry on the part of those who should cultivate it. This laziness means that the different types of minerals with which hidden veins of the earth are full are neither mined nor exploited in any way. They do not devote themselves to the manufacture of flax or wool, nor to the practice of any mechanical or mercantile act. Dedicated only to leisure and laziness, this is a truly barbarous people. They depend on animals for their livelihood and they live like animals".

​@@user-wr4uz8pg7m yes, we were portraid in many ways and that served only those that wanted to justify taking what was not theirs.. its still not theirs, yet they're still here..for now.

@@user-wr4uz8pg7m oh yes, when we came to the US, we were a scourge on the land! Fortunately, the Irish are now fully appreciated for all the beautiful culture and skills they brought to our lovely melting pot.

@@Hurricanehamo what??? Do you see Europeans being...evicted? Or are you saying that the tide will change, eventually? Sadly, right of conquest was the point of view, during exploration, and many excuses were made up for murdering innocent people, or enslaving them. Sickness killed many people, despite what liberal professors are saying, these days. It really did. The eastern seaboard was wiped out(up to 95%) from illness in between the time that Squanto(Tusquqntum?)was abducted, and returned to New England . He left a thriving north east, a decade or so later, it was DESOLATE, an entire seaboard without life. Malaria was awful, Hepatitis A is the illness that supposedly took so many lives during the 1500s, on eastern seaboard. Things like smallpox, plague, and diseases like dysentery, all were a bitch, with little cure, or preventative measures, as well as all the childhood stuff were vaccinated against. Believe me, Native American people deserve recompense, absolutely. They lived through trickery, and atrocities that we might not be able to imagine, today. I have love for all people, and races. Just be careful exactly what you choose to believe these days. Make your own decision based on fact checking, and NOT what a professor believes, and says. Remember, professors are human, too! Sometimes they use their position to mold students minds into what THEY want, which is often based on an opinion, not fact. Make your own opinions!

Or Craige, they could get a good idea of where they needed the entrance to be, build up to that point where the shadows and light stops going in direction and starts going in another direction. Since cultures divided by time and thousands of kilometers figured it out, it can’t have been that hard to figure out. China, England, Ireland, Cambodia, Maya, Aztec, Inca, pueblo people’s of southwestern America…all figured it out.

All agricultural societies do this. Marking the movements of the Sun is *the* most important thing to such a level of civilization. It's why these monuments are almost exclusively a development of the Neolithic and are the first to appear before even cities and writing. If you want to grow food, you must observe the heavens. Period.

I think that they just had a different type of “smarts” back then. God knows I can’t figure things out like that… except where the west is when the sun is out. It’s always seems to be where my bed room is located & the hottest place in the house. 😎 🇺🇸 ✌🏻

I couldn't agree more. The fixation of 'modern' archeologists to label such sites as tombs tends to detract from the geo-astronomical significance of construction methodologies and hence intention and purpose of their builders. Simplicity and a seeming lack of technology does not make ancestors quaint but these skilled, highly organised and perhaps literally worldly-wise are considered superstitious and primitive. These viewpoints tell more about the history of archaeology rather than the nature of the megalithic builders.

@@toastwelldunne I wonder if they might have been built in memory of when we would worship in spaces in caves, There is something very womb-like about these tombs, ike the Womb of the Earth Mother.

Human Ashes were found inside

​@katiegriffin9354 there are burials in modern churches but the building is not just funerary is it

One does not simply walk to Meath

​@customsongmaker To do so would be folly when there's a bus service😂😂

They age is so wrong

Correct, no one knows and all comments should be qualified with: "It appears". The when can be determined to a point somewhere in the great year cycle, which cycle may even be known by studying the hints left in the carved stones as they hid nothing; the why is astounding but very simple, the how is simply using the materials at hand which just so happened to be stone and earth to build the edifice to the masterplan scribed out on the ground by the architect who drew up the plans.

The White Walls are reconstructions.

It's not impossible , have you ever read any Conor Macdari books. Ancient Irish wisdom preserved in the Bible and Pyramids.

Exactly! I have never been to Newgrange or Knowth or Dowth, but i'd love to one day, it's amazing after 5000 years the structure of Newgrange is still intact! Also i see you have a Captain Haddock image for your profile picture, my favourite character in Tintin! haha

I, too, was there in the early 70s before they tarted the place up for the tourists and altered it. Then the white stones circled the mound as in a processional path. The internal was reconstructed according to the best guess of a 18c clergyman.

Me, neither, though Romans often adopted the gods and goddesses of other groups into their pantheon. For example, at Bath, there is a statue of Sulis Minerva. For Romans, Sulis was Minerva and vice versa, though Sulis was and remains a Celtic deity. So a Roman offering at Newgrange may not be so strange.

We've yet to find all the impact craters on earth or to date them. So yes, there coud very possibly have been an impact thousands of years ago and we've yet to find it..

Hi. Thanks for this. Do you have a reference where I can read more about the pronunciation of The Dagda ? I've never heard it pronounced the way you describe it (dye-dah) but always as Dag-da. Thanks.

I've never heard it pronounced that way. Curious as to where you're getting that?

@@user-wr4uz8pg7m Because I speak the language, my native tongue. Spelt correctly, there should be a dot over the letter 'g' to indicate it is 'silent'. 🤫

@@LordZama Gaelic Irish is my native tongue, so I know the rules of spelling & pronunciation. FYI, Irish is the 3rd oldest written European language, after Greek & Latin.

Hawklord100. Excellent advice. Looked him up and discovered a whole plethora of his work and associated subject matter. Thank You for your input and consideration for those of us who are not familiar with Professor Gardner.

"He used his books to propose several theories, including a belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married and had children, whose descendants included King Arthur and the House of Stuart.[1] In Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark he claimed that the Ark of the Covenant was a machine for manufacturing "monatomic gold" - a supposed elixir which could be used to extend life" oh yes seems perfectly reasonable

@@fishcake959 So you bought his books then, I presume there was enough information you agreed with to have you go back and buy more ?

I think you can only carbon the human remains but not the stone. I think they built the tomes away before they start to cremate the remains. They live a survived in there during the iceage.

It's not quite what it was originally - but still ;- ) .. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/ppdyeIOlqm6ImGw.html

@@pixiepostcard2090 Thank you for that it’s a shame we can’t see it as they saw it but fascinating all the same thank you again .

There are definitely recordings somewhere online

I've stood inside of the Newgrange mound and I can assure you, it's not at all suited to being a dwelling. It's very large from the outside but inside it's fairly cramped. Obscenely overbuilt structure if it started as a dwelling. Why build an enormous, complicated mound when a hut would provide the same benefits? It's also worth noting that it's not a 'tomb' per se, it's more a place of ritual were the remains of the dead may have been brought before moving elsewhere. There are three altars of sorts inside the mound, and it's been theorised that the bodies of the dead may have been cremated before their ashes were brought to the altars for a ceremony.

@@LordZama Probably because you're looking at what it has become today, not what it once began as. I'm sure there were hundreds of generations of modifications, additions, and repurpose. Not to mention it's hard for you to fathom living in anything less than a two-story five bedroom house. Especially after that cheeseburger lunch, and jeans that are ready to burst at the seams. It's counterintuitive I know, but all the evidence shows that these massive megaliths were built by tiny little people compared to today's population. This would have been a palace to a Mesolithic HG or Neolithic farmer. But who knows for sure? When you get your time machine running, come back and let us know.

​@@MOEMUGGY I'm sure it has been modified over the thousands of years it's been there, it'd be stranger if it hadn't changed. Could it have been a palace as you said? Sure. I seem to have struck a nerve. I'm not sure why you felt the need to go on the offensive, but sure, go for it, whatever helps you sleep at night, mate. Nothing makes your position seem more robust than an unprovoked personal attack. On that note, my time machine appears to be broken, flux capacitor up the left as per usual, and with all these cheeseburgers busting my gut I can't be arsed to fix it! So instead of postulating unsubstantiated bullshit, I'm going to stick with the evidence and the conclusions drawn by experts. Feel free to take it for a spin if you get it up and running though!

@@LordZama It was just a joke to add levity to my response. Sorry, I wouldn't have made it if I knew you were a little sensitive about your weight. In my defense, You did say it was fairly cramped inside... lighten up

Why are these comment sections always full of idiots that think there's some secret purpose to these monuments that only they know? You've clearly never been to Newgrange. There's a passage and three small chambers. It's not a dwelling. No, it wasn't rebuilt, if you've been there you could tell that's way too much work for no reason whatsoever. There's a reason you're resorting to ad hominem attacks. You're immature and ignorant.

Eire is the correct phrasing. Wrong. Eire translates to encumbered. Éire is the correct phrasing and spelling

I'm from western Ireland and I guess that cloud in the sky obscures the Winter solstice beam more often than not. One is lucky to be inside Newgrange on a sunny morning.

Silt?

@El Zorro......Because sea level was higher?

@@GWAYGWAY1 Also, glacial rebound as large parts of Ireland were glaciated 20,000 years ago.

Nobody's being "replaced". Go out and get some fresh air, lad. You'll be grand.

None so blind..........................

@alex hayden Sadly, you don't know how right you are. It's OK to be anxious. Everyone's frightened of something. But don't let yourself be manipulated and exploited by yer man and those of his ilk. I genuinely wish you well.

@@alexhayden2303 All populations change over time. Get over it.

@@harrietharlow9929 In a few decades?

I couldn't have said it better myself, too many people underestimate the skill of the monument builders and claim the involvement of aliens or some super advanced civilisation instead. Ancient Aliens seems to be considered as a history programme rather than the daft fantasy that it is. They were well able to build a landing pad for a spaceship without the help of the aliens....

People just cannot seem to "get" that ancient societies were much more capable than they are given credit for. I think that the "Ancient Aliens" hypothesis is insulting to our ancestors. Just because we don't know what tecniques were used, it doesn't follow that "aliens must have done it".

Indeed. The Neolithic farmers came initially from the Middle East via Iberia, not Britain. We're more related to the Gaels who came in the Bronze age. Beginning as the Yamnaya culture of the Pontic Steppe. Corded Ware by the time the got here. The latest DNA study is fascinating. I wish more people would talk about it, rather than perpetuating the old 'celt' theories of the Victorian age.

Hi Heather, can you suggest further reading on the DNA based evidence you are referring to? I gave up on this as baloney after 5 minutes< There was not a single source or academic reference mentioned - very disappointing really that there are still panderings to Victorian tropes.

@@fincorrigan7139 There are two papers by Cassidy that you can google which give the information. They are "Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome" from 2016 and "A Dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society" from 2020. You can also google search "Ancient Ireland’s Y and Mitochondrial DNA - Do You Match???" and that should give you a link to a post on a genetic genealogy website. Some of this information is also found in the paperback version of JP Mallory's "The Origins of the Irish". The paperback was published after the hardback version and was updated to include the new "Ancient DNA" evidence.

You don't think there was popuation flow from Britain to Ireland and vice versa?

I think the term stone age farmers is used to distinguish between settled people and the nomadic peoples that came before them. I don't think anyone uses the term to denigrate them and archaeologists don't think of them as primitive at all, in fact the monuments they built show how advanced they were for their time.

@@markgallagher5908 Hi Mark. I take your well-made point. I share your distinction. Perhaps because the term Stone Age carries a Hollywood-ish negative connotation (clubs, caves and ‘dragged wenches’), might it not be better to refer to these people as settled or nomadic?

@@petertrebilco9430 Hi Peter I'm assuming that the term "stone age farmers" is used because when farming was developed it freed up a lot of time that was previously used for hunting and gathering food. Being able to somehow mark time became important as they needed to be able to know when to plant crops, they then realised that that by paying attention to the position of the sun on the horizon at sunrise that they could then predict when to plant crops this made astronomy an important subject. All the ancient monuments incorporated astronomical alignments. They may have been "stone age farmers" but primitive they were not. I guess the term was used for them because the development of farming was so important, but settled or nomadic is also a viable designation.

citation please

Gas? It's nuclear fusion and the bible is fairytales

Lot of mixing of the two, even if Rome would never admit it. And no, I am not a Protestant.

what a brilliant comment,you put a lot of thought into it

what about estimated dates?

Everything presented here is based on the real factual structure and function and interaction of this mound with the sun, as well as on a the carvings in the rocks. The speculation as to the beliefs of the builders is consistent with the beliefs of many ancient civilizations who spent a lot of time and energy building huge monuments.This is about life and death, time and eternity, God and man. Science is unable to measure and prove these things.

The location checks out.

What you’ve said here is completely inaccurate!

@@slowgomera5611 estimated dates = speculation

There's tons of this kind of stuff on the Isle of Britain. They never got around to destroying a lot of that. I guess they were too busy messing up Irish lives.