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Dowth, Knowth, Newgrange--over 7000 years of human art and artefact--are but a few of the treasures to be found on the valley of the Boyne. Through this ancient valley with its own fascinating physiographic history, each successive wave of human occupance has deposited landscape evidence of its lifeways, beliefs and symbols. Tara, Rossnaree, Cormac Mac Airt--from pre-historic legend and archaeological record through the well-documented episodes of Saint Patrick, Norse and Saxon, Mellifont monks and medieval merchants, battles of the Boyne, Cromwellian surveys and settlers, rich eighteenth century estates to twentieth century agribusiness--it is all here, Ireland's entire story in microcosm--including, of course, illustrations of its literary and artistic representations. Geraldine Stout's Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne is a truly delightful read. With its splendid graphic illustrations and ingenious cartography serving succinct vignettes from cultural history, this book... Is historical geography at its best.

Dowth, Knowth, Newgrange -- over 7000 years of human art and artefact -- are but a few of the treasures to be found on the valley of the Boyne. Through this ancient valley with its own fascinating physiographic history, each successive wave of human occupance has deposited landscape evidence of its lifeways, beliefs and symbols. Tara, Rossnaree, Cormac Mac Airt -- from pre-historic legend and archaeological record through the well-documented episodes of Saint Patrick, Norse and Saxon, Mellifont monks and medieval merchants, battles of the Boyne, Cromwellian surveys and settlers, rich eighteenth century estates to twentieth century agribusiness -- it is all here, Ireland's entire story in microcosm -- including, of course, illustrations of its literary and artistic representations. Geraldine Stout's Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne is a truly delightful read. With its splendid graphic illustrations and ingenious cartography serving succinct vignettes from cultural history, this book... Is historical geography at its best. -- Anne Buttimer, Professor of Geography, University College Dublin, President, International Geographical Union Dowth, Knowth, Newgrange--over 7000 years of human art and artefact--are but a few of the treasures to be found on the valley of the Boyne. Through this ancient valley with its own fascinating physiographic history, each successive wave of human occupance has deposited landscape evidence of its lifeways, beliefs and symbols. Tara, Rossnaree, Cormac Mac Airt--from pre-historic legend and archaeological record through the well-documented episodes of Saint Patrick, Norse and Saxon, Mellifont monks and medieval merchants, battles of the Boyne, Cromwellian surveys and settlers, rich eighteenth century estates to twentieth century agribusiness--it is all here, Ireland's entire story in microcosm--including, of course, illustrations of its literary and artistic representations. Geraldine Stout's Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne is a truly delightful read. With its splendid graphic illustrations and ingenious cartography serving succinct vignettes from cultural history, this book... Is historical geography at its best. --Anne Buttimer, Professor of Geography, University College Dublin, President, International Geographical Union

Dowth, Knowth, Newgrange -- over 7000 years of human art and artefact -- are but a few of the treasures to be found on the valley of the Boyne. Through this ancient valley with its own fascinating physiographic history, each successive wave of human occupance has deposited landscape evidence of its lifeways, beliefs and symbols. Tara, Rossnaree, Cormac Mac Airt -- from pre-historic legend and archaeological record through the well-documented episodes of Saint Patrick, Norse and Saxon, Mellifont monks and medieval merchants, battles of the Boyne, Cromwellian surveys and settlers, rich eighteenth century estates to twentieth century agribusiness -- it is all here, Ireland's entire story in microcosm -- including, of course, illustrations of its literary and artistic representations. Geraldine Stout's Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne is a truly delightful read. With its splendid graphic illustrations and ingenious cartography serving succinct vignettes from cultural history, this book... Is historical geography at its best. -- Anne Buttimer, Professor of Geography, University College Dublin, President, International Geographical Union

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Geraldine Stout is an archaeologist with the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht. She assisted on the excavations at Knowth and Newgrange and has undertaken postgraduate and doctoral research on the Boyne valley. She is the author of Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne (Cork, 2002).

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