The Gibbon(s) paper is titled "The Brú: A Hiberno-Roman Cult Site at Newgrange?, " . Doesn't come across as quite so strident as the I.T. quotes . A read of that might help . Or maybe it's a case of the I.T. cynically exaggerating . Interestingly he conducted tours at Newgrange :walkingireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/downloadable-PDF.pdf
Wonder what he said then ?
To be fair to O' Kelly the pre-excavation images show the roof box at a height that must must be close to , if not exactly the same , post excavation height above the floor of the passage .
He's wrong on both claims, the roofbox is visible even in antiquarian drawings, Beranger even gave it a separate sketch in his 1775 drawing of Newgrange. The O'Kelly archive has been available to the public for several years now and anyone can view it by appointment. In there are several photos of the roofbox after the cairn covering it had been removed, and again after restoration. A nice photo of it in its original state was also included in the exhibition on the excavations that was in the visitor centre for a few years.
