Newgrange Tour and Exhibition

I emailed [email protected] and got a quick reply for Mary Gibbons tecommended tour.

I first emailed Nov 5 for my mid-June request and the weekend was already sold out.

I am not sure where you are trying to reserve.

I think I’m confused too. We are going to be near Newgrange from September 22-October 17 so I was going to try to book something starting 30 days before, or August 22. There’s something I’m not understanding about this system too… Following this discussion for clarity.

The website says they book tickets 30 days out, today just happens to be the start of May. So check back 30 days before the date you want in June.

Depending on how your trip is planned, you might want to visit Newgrange with this Dublin-based tour, which takes most of a day but includes a lot of added information plus the Hill of Tara. They may get to reserve admissions ahead of the 30-day window. EDIT: I'm referring to the Mary Gibbons tour that TexasTravelMom mentioned. It was excellent.

Are y’all using
https://www.newgrangetours.com/book-a-tour#book-a-tour ?

I’m using the official site. https://brunaboinne.admit-one.eu/?p=calendar&ev=NEWGRA

We have a person who lives near Newgrange that I can reach out to also. We are doing a home exchange near Drogheda this fall.

Thanks for the responses. We will have a car so don’t want to book an organized tour.

We just returned from Ireland and we visited the site of Knowth at Bru na Bóinne. I booked it exactly 30 days ahead using the official site: https://brunaboinne.admit-one.eu/
The site says the Knowth and Newgrange tours are 2 hours each but when you arrive at your appointed time, the first 45 minutes is free time at the visitors center/gift shop/cafe, then you have a specific time to be at the shuttle bus stop to get transported to either Knowth or Newgrange.
Our tour guide at Knowth was very engaging and informative and was available for more questions during the free time we had there to wander on our own.
My sister thought the 3-hour combined tour of Knowth & Newgrange would be too much for her, so we booked tickets for just Knowth (which was amazing!) but knowing now that the combined tour isn’t a full 3 hours (because of the built in visitors center time) I would have liked to have seen both.

The tours are very popular and do book up quickly. The booking form on the website only goes up to the end of May at the moment, so keep checking the webite for when they start to add dates for June and then book up.

If you have time it is worth doing both Newgrange and Knowth - they are very different.

Thank you for your informative responses. I will diligently check the site and hopefully be able to secure tickets 30 days before our planned day. Yes, we want to tour both sites- New Grange and Knowth.

Trying to plan my trip to Ireland, and on our last full day we want to visit Newgrange. However, we will be coming from Westport which will be at least 3 hours away. I cannot find anything on the website that indicates how many tours they do each day, in other words, all the tour times available. As of last night, the next 30 days were 100% booked up. When I woke up this morning, the newest day became available but only shows a 9am time slot. I'm hoping that there isn't just one single tour per day at 9am.... it is currently 9am as I write this, so I'm wondering if only the 9am time slot has populated. If that's the case, this booking system is crazy. Sounds like I'm literally going to have to be at the computer 30 days prior at the exact time I want the booking for.... since according to last night, by the end of the day that entire day 30 days out will already be completely booked up.

But to repeat my question on hand, does anyone know how many time slots they do for the newgrange + exhibit tour?

Tours do book up very quickly and the later ones are often the first to be sold out. The Brú na Bóinne Tour + Newgrange Chamber tours are shown leaving at 9.00. 9.30, 11.30, 12.00, 12.30, 13.30, 14.30 and 15.00. and do have a few tickets available for 16th, 18th, 19th and 20th August.

This tour has more availability than the Knowth tour and exhibition or the Newgrange tour and exhibition.

Keep checking this website