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Get the bus from Bus Aras (Main bus depot) on Amien Street (across from train station)
Then get the bus from Drogheda to Newgrange/Donore. Runs fairly frequently and leaves you right to the carpark at Bru na Boinne.

Be very aware though that the last tour of the day arrives back too late for the last bus in typical Irish fashion, means you can meet some locals while hitch-hiking home. I've often given people lifts back to Drogheda at closing time!

If you get the bus from Dublin to Drogheda at 8am, it gets in to Drogheda bus station at 9:15, get a plastic breakfast in McD's across the way and the bus to donore/newgrange leaves at 10:15 and takes less than 15 min. Last bus leaves Donore at 17:55 but thats from the village so it will leave Bru na Boinne at around 17:45 and the last tour gets back at 18:15. Last tour might be off during winter though and you may have missed the opening dates for Knowth, I think it closes late Sept/early November for the winter.