Mayo man part of team searching for second chamber at Newgrange

CLAREMORRIS man Kevin Barton will feature in a special programme, Rún na Bóinne, which will air on TG4 at 9.30 p.m. this Wednesday (December 20), the eve of the winter solstice.

Kevin was part of an expert international team involved in a search for a second as yet undiscovered chamber contained somewhere in the mound at Newgrange.

Filmmaker Neal Boyle has been intrigued by Newgrange and the Boyne Valley for a long time, everything from the Neolithic art to the astronomical alignments built into the great mounds.

‘The Second Chamber’ project began in late 2019 and involved the commissioning of a geophysical survey of Newgrange to search for the chamber and the filming of a documentary which would tell the story of that search. It took a further two years to fully fund the project but in June 2022, Boyle, his film crew and team of geophysicists from Ireland and Slovakia arrived in the Boyne Valley.

In an Irish TV first, this documentary brings leading scientists to Ireland and cutting-edge technology in an attempt to locate the second chamber. If found, it would be the greatest discovery in the Boyne Valley in 50 years.

Rún na Bóinne is directed and produced by Neal Boyle and co-produced by Mary Brophy.

It is an IWR Media production for TG4, funded by Coimisiún na Meán and TG4 with support from Sligo, Meath and Kilkenny County Councils and the National Monuments Service.