About 30 minutes drive from Dublin a fertile valley nestles in a meandering loop of the Boyne River. In the Neolithic or Stone Age, an advanced civilization made this tranquil spot home. Settlers raised livestock and tended their crops in a peaceful, serene life. Accomplished artists and engineers, they also built ring forts, barrows, and sacred enclosures.

Today, more than 300 such ancient mounds survive scattered across northeastern Ireland. The most intriguing are called Passage Tombs owing to a long corridor leading to a central cruciform chamber. Historians long believed the cremated remains of the dead were left in these chambers to begin their journey to the Other World.

That association with burial rites overshadowed a more spiritual aspect of these enigmatic cairns. Rife with symbols and astrological properties, today they are recognized as temples with great ritual significance.

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