Winter Solstice - 21 December 2008

At the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, the rising sun illuminates the tomb through the lightbox over the entrance, the beam reaching 62feet along the passage to the three chambers at the end.

Megalithic tomb (Passage grave) Newgrange, Co Meath, Ireland - 2500BC. Although not the oldest passage tomb in Ireland, Newgrange is without doubt Ireland's best known prehistoric monument. Dated to around 3200 BC, Newgrange is 1,000 older than Stonehenge and centuries older than the great pyramids of Egypt.
www.newgrange.com/