Cycling from Dublin to Newgrange & Tara - a route on quiet rural roads

It's not far as the bike cycles from Dublin City to the neolithic and Bronze Age sites of Meath including Fourknocks, Newgrange and the Brú na Bónnie other monuments and then Tara. And you get the battle of the Boyne site thrown in as a bonus, that's a lot of history!
Here I show you how to cycle this using the quiet country backroads of north Dublin to avoid the very very busy National and Regional roads in the area. This route follows the walkway south of the Boyne that gives you an excellent view of Newgrange across the river and brings you past the pool where the Salmon of Knowledge was caught. To visit Newgrange and/or Knowth you need to go to the visitor centre which is also south of the river and get a ticket. You can just stop and visit Dowth by cycling to it directly. No ticket. is needed for Tara but for Fourknocks you need to call in at the local family they hold onto the public access key for the site.
This route which starts and returns to the Phoenix Monument in the Phoenix park is about 130km in length and has about 1000m of ascent including 3-4 steep ridges near Naul. If that sounds too ambitious you could just use the easterly or westerly route to just go to one of the sites and return by that same route for a 80-100km trip depending on site. You'll find the route map from which you can download a GPX file at cycle.travel/m...
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[@malenelemoine1256]

Thanks for the video. Very interesting comments.

[@Ebiketouringlife]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@losthwy]

"quiet rural roads" yet you gab thru the whole thing and with the camera pointed at yourself and not at the scenery! Thumbs DOWN👎🏾

[@Ebiketouringlife]

Lookk for my oldest videos where I just recorded the road ahead with no commentary at normal speed. There’s hours of Wicklow mountain footage there

[@losthwy]

Ty. @@Ebiketouringlife

[@anthonykelly5]

great video i cycle all those roads around meath louth im from drogheda so newgrange is just 7 miles from my place,anyway great video pity about the miserable weather.your a mind of information.btw have you all your routes on your phone im useless at this tech stuff in my 70s lol.

[@Ebiketouringlife]

I use cycle.travel to create, edit and store routes on, there is a link to this one in the video description. And yes it’s got a phone app so I use it for navigation. It’s very good for finding cycle paths and backroads even in bits of Dublin where I’ve cycled for years. I cycled the Navan to Kingscourt greenway a couple of weeks back and am thinking about a Boyne route

[@anthonykelly5]

shared this to my facebook page hope you dont mind.

[@Ebiketouringlife]

Oh that’s great, the more reach for the videos the better

[@letsseeyoutravel8364]

What GPS app do you recommend when touring in Europe?

[@Ebiketouringlife]

I use cycle.travel planning the route on the website and the app while travelling. My new control unit has navigation built in but so far I prefer CT

[@letsseeyoutravel8364]

So I can download the GPS on my phone?

[@Ebiketouringlife]

Yes but there is also a phone app that syncs routes you have saved on the web page