The hands behind Newgrange Stonework

Newgrange Stonework LLC is owned and operated by Brendan Monahan, who learned the craft of dry stone masonry more than a decade ago in Tasmania, Australia. It started on hiking trail construction, where Tasmania's wet climate demands sturdy, long-lasting stonework that can hold a slope and shed water without ever failing.

Hikers on those trails kept asking the same question: could this kind of stonework be built in a backyard? That question became the company. Stone is one of the oldest building materials there is, and dry stone construction — no mortar, no shortcuts — brings that structural art form home.

Fast forward several years, and Brendan has since traveled to Ireland to see the source of the company's name firsthand — the 5,000-year-old passage tomb at Newgrange, its corbelled dry stone roof still watertight after five millennia. Studying that kind of stonework in person, and paying homage to a craft this old, is part of what keeps every wall built here held to the same standard.

With that passion, every project starts with time spent understanding what a space actually needs, not just what it should look like. Whether that means a run of steps, a terraced slope, or a retaining wall that has to do real structural work, the same time-tested method applies: stone set by hand, fitted to hold itself, built to outlast the people who built it.

Newgrange Stonework is proudly based in Denver, Colorado, and is locally bonded and insured.