Newgrange "was discovered accidentally by the removal of material for road-metalling in 1699.  The great tombs of Knowth and Dowth are nearby, and in the same 7.8 square km (3sq mile) area of the Boyne valley are grouped more than 30 prehistoric monuments : standing stones, barrows, and enclosures. was discovered accidentally by the removal of material for road-metalling in 1699...  The great tombs of Knowth and Dowth are nearby, and in the same 7.8 square km (3sq mile) area of the Boyne valley are grouped more than 30 prehistoric monuments: standing stones, barrows, and enclosures."  ("Stones of Ireland").
  I do not think that Joyce was interested in this site and referred to it in his works.  I doubt if Joyce really knew it.

  The historic ruins of Monasterboice are of an early Christian settlement situated north of Drogheda, just off the N1.  It was founded in 520 AD by St.Buite.  The ruins include a Round Tower and, most famous are the three High Crosses.  These crosses date back to the tenth Century.  Muiredach's Cross stands 5.5 meters high and is decorated with detailed biblical carvings, and is one of the finest examples of Celtic Crosses in Ireland.  Of the same time are the West and North Crosses, which stand 6.5 and 5 meters high respectively, which also show great craftsmanship, but have been weathered away more.  Connection with Joyce: ?FW271.L1: "Ulstria, Monastir, Leninstar"

  Mellifont Abbey is loccated 4 1/2 mile NW of Drogheda, Co. Louth.  First Cistercian Abbey in Ireland, founded 1140 by King (of Uriel) Donchadh O Carroll for St Mael M'Aedhog (Malachy) O' Morgair, Bishop of Down.  Seat of Moore family (later Earls of Drogheda) from sixteenth century, now ruins: FW477.30: "moore...melding mellifond indo his mouth"
  Cf. Louis O. Mink, A "Finnegans Wake" Gazetteer.

IMAGE	IMAGE NO.	DATA
Newgrange
	nmm2002-239	(Wednesday 26 June) Viewed from Newgrange, County Meath
	nmm2002-240	(Wednesday 26 June) Newgrange, a passage-grave with 97 curbstones, which erected probably in about 3200 BC.  Passage-graves are usually on hill-tops or in commanding situations and are frequently grouped in cemeteries.  Newgrange, in this respect, is a classic example.  It is situated on the highest point of a long, low ridge about 1km north of River Boyne and about 14 km from Drogheda.  "The entrance area today which had to be modified by the addition of curving masonry walls of obvious modern design so as to facilitate the entry of visitors" (Claire O'Kelly).
	nmm2002-241	(Wednesday 26 June) The entrance stone of Newgrange in the south-east of the mound.  The tomb chamber is entered through a long passage lined on each side with standing-stones.  "A matter frequently raised in connection with prehistoric monuments and one that is increasingly studied at the present time is to what extent they were aligned so as to coincide with the rising or setting of the sun, moon, etc.  The orientation of Stonehenge in the direction of midsummer sunrise is one of the best known instances and probably accounts for the frequency with which visitors to Newgrange in the past enquired if a similar phenomenon was to be witnessed there...    For 17 minutes, therefore at sunrise on the shortest day of the year [winter solstice] direct sunlight can enter Newgrange, not through the doorway, but through the specially-contrived narrow slit which lies under the roof-box at the outer end of the passage roof" (Claire O'Kelly).
	nmm2002-242	(Wednesday 26 June) The entrance stone of Newgrange.  The same kind of spiral pattern is seen in many parts of the passage grave.
	nmm2002-243	(Wednesday 26 June) Newgrange
	nmm2002-244	(Wednesday 26 June) Newgrange
River Boyne		River Boyne, viewed from a bridge to the visitor centre of Newgrange
	nmm2002-249	(Wednesday 26 June) Map of "Bru na Boinne," Visitor Centre
	nmm2002-245	(Wednesday 26 June) River Boyne, viewed from a bridge to the visitor centre of Newgrange
	nmm2002-246	(Wednesday 26 June) River Boyne, viewed from a bridge to the visitor centre of Newgrange
	nmm2002-247	(Wednesday 26 June) River Boyne, viewed from a bridge to the visitor centre of Newgrange
	nmm2002-248	(Wednesday 26 June) River Boyne, viewed from a bridge to the visitor centre of Newgrange
Monasterboice
	nmm2002-219	(Wednesday 26 June) Monasterboice, founded by St. Buite, who died c. A.D. 521.  County Louth (near Drogheda).  "Irish Christian artists gave monumental shape to the whole doctrine of salvation and to demonstrate by comparisons drawn from others of the great 'Scripture' crosses -- Clonmacnoise, Durrow, Kells, Arboe-- their essential unity in teaching and illustration" (Henry M. Roe).
	nmm2002-220	(Wednesday 26 June) The round tower, etc., Monasterboice
	nmm2002-221	(Wednesday 26 June) South Cross East Side Head -- The Last Judgment, Monasterboice
	nmm2002-222	(Wednesday 26 June) South Cross East Side Head -- The Last Judgment, Monasterboice
	nmm2002-223	(Wednesday 26 June) The Plan of Graveyard, Monasterboice
	nmm2002-224	(Wednesday 26 June) West Cross West Side -- Crucifixion, Monasterboice
	nmm2002-225	(Wednesday 26 June) North Church, Monasterboice
	nmm2002-226	(Wednesday 26 June) North Church, Monasterboice
	nmm2002-227	(Wednesday 26 June) West Cross West Side (7m. high), Monasterboice
	nmm2002-228	(Wednesday 26 June) North Church and the round tower, Monasterboice
	nmm2002-229	(Wednesday 26 June) Monasterboice
	nmm2002-230	(Wednesday 26 June) A shop, Monasterboice
	nmm2002-231	(Wednesday 26 June) Monasterboice
Mellifont Abbey
	nmm2002-232	(Wednesday 26 June) Mellifont Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth. Gate.  "St. Malachy, the celebrated reformer and friend of St. Bernard, with a group of French and Irish monks founded the abbey in 1142 on lands granted by O'Carrol, Prince of Oriel, 'in a spot far removed from the noise and bustle of the world.'  " Latin: Melli-fons = "Honey Fountain."
	nmm2002-233	(Wednesday 26 June) Mellifont Abbey
	nmm2002-234	(Wednesday 26 June) Mellifont Abbey
	nmm2002-235	(Wednesday 26 June) Mellifont Abbey: the Plan
	nmm2002-236	(Wednesday 26 June) Chapter House of Mellifont Abbey
	nmm2002-237	(Wednesday 26 June) Ravado of Mellifont Abbey: the Plan
	nmm2002-238	(Wednesday 26 June) Mellifont Abbey
Company
	nmm2002-250	(Wednesday 26 June) Yasue Fujino, illustrator from Osaka, Japan.  Dublin Central Bus Station.