Newgrange tops heritage site poll

ONLY a handful of people ever get to see it in its full splendour but Newgrange still remains the country’s best-loved heritage site.

The 5,000-year-old burial chamber, famed for lighting up with extraordinary precision at dawn on the shortest day of each year, was named the nation’s favourite heritage site, heritage structure and most important historical site.

The Co Meath landmark was voted number one in a survey of 600 adults carried out by Ecclesiastical Insurance, an insurance company specialising in insuring churches, castles and other historical properties.