Brú na Bóinne National Park

Bru na Boinne National Park is a national park in County Meath, Ireland, along the River Boyne, established in 2023 when the Irish state acquired the Dowth estate of about 223 hectares to form a new national park. It covers roughly a third of the wider Bru na Boinne World Heritage Property, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 that holds the Neolithic passage tombs of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. The park itself takes in the country houses of Dowth Hall and Netterville Manor within an extensive demesne landscape along the Boyne valley, combining prehistoric monuments, medieval structures and an eighteenth and nineteenth century estate with the natural habitats around them. State ownership of this land is intended to allow direct conservation and management of part of the wider World Heritage Property, including further archaeological work and ecological protection.