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Newgrange is a 5,000-year-old passage tomb that is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise. Learn how to access the chamber by lottery, watch the stunning phenomenon, and explore the spiritual and astronomical significance of this UNESCO World Heritage site.
- Newgrange Winter Solstice Lottery Draw
The place at Newgrange for Winter Solstice dawn is...
- Newgrange Winter Solstice Photographs by Alan Betson
The winter solstice holds profound cultural and spiritual...
- Newgrange World Heritage Site : Boyne Valley, Ireland
Step inside the chambers of Newgrange, where the winter...
- Rediscovering the Winter Solstice Alignment at Newgrange
Newgrange was the first prehistoric site in Ireland to have...
- Newgrange Winter Solstice Lottery Draw
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- Newgrange, O’Kelly’S Excavations and The Winter Solstice at Newgrange
- Dating from Newgrange
- Some Artefacts from Newgrange
- Solar Symbolism in Prehistory
- Conclusion
- Online Tour: Winter Solstice Tour
- References
The prehistoric and archaeological significance of Newgrange was first recognised by Edward Lhywd, a Welsh antiquarian, when he was visiting Ireland in 1699 (Figure 1). It was not until the 20th century that it was first properly investigated by R.A.S Macalister, and then later by Sean P. O’Ríordáin, both Professors of Archaeology at University Col...
Up until the 1980s passage tombs were considered to be Bronze Age mortuary monuments and Newgrange was thought to date to 2800 BC (Herity, 1974). This presented archaeologists at the time with a huge conundrum as there was an absence of bronze finds from the primary contexts. With improvements in radiocarbon analysis new dates were produced and cur...
With the chronology of passage tombs resolved, however, the debate over the origins of the passage tomb culture and how it disseminated into Ireland is ongoing. There are close parallels between the morphology, art and artefact assemblages of the Irish passage tombs and passage tombs in Brittany and Iberia. Indeed, several of the finds, namely the ...
Solar symbolism in megalithic art and rock art is well documented. Recent research has been carried out by our former Keeper of Irish Antiquities, Mary Cahill, into solar symbolism in the Bronze Age artefacts: gold discs, also referred to as sun discs(Figure 8), ceramic bowls (formerly called Food Vessel Bowls) found in early Bronze Age burials, an...
Brú na Bóinne is one of two UNESCO sites in Ireland. It is quite a unique place in the Irish landscape. The late Michael Herity, professor of Archaeology at University College Dublin in his book Irish Passage Graves compared the passage tomb builders of the Boyne Valley to the Medici of Florence, and suggests that in the prehistoric era only the Ce...
To celebrate the rising sun of the Winter Solstice at Newgrange the Museum’s Education Department recorded a special online tour of the Museum’s Prehistoric Ireland, Ór - Ireland’s Gold and The Treasury exhibitions exploring how ancient monuments and archaeological objects are linked to celestial events. This online tour looks at how passage tombs,...
Cahill, M. (2015) ‘Here comes the sun… Solar Symbolism in early Bronze Age Ireland’, Archaeology Ireland, 29 (1), 26-33. Wordwell Books: Dublin Cahill, M. (2016) ‘A stone to die for’, Archaeology Ireland, 30 (3), 26-29. Wordwell Books: Dublin. Herity, M. (1974) Irish passage graves: Neolithic tomb builders in Ireland and Britain, 25,00B.C. Irish Un...
Newgrange is a 5,200 year old passage tomb in the Boyne Valley, Ireland, aligned with the rising sun on the winter solstice. Learn about its history, architecture, and how to visit or apply for the lottery to witness the illumination of the chamber.
Dec 16, 2015 · Learn how to experience the ancient dawn at Newgrange, a 5,000-year-old stone tomb that fills with light on the winter solstice. Find out how to apply for a lottery ticket to enter the chamber or join the crowd at the entrance.
Dec 21, 2022 · Learn about the ancient Neolithic monument in Co Meath that is aligned with the rising sun on December 21. See stunning photos from inside Newgrange taken by lottery winners and watch live streams of the magical event.
Dec 15, 2023 · In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice occurs on 21 or 22 December, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn. At sunrise on the shortest day of the year, for 17 minutes, direct sunlight can enter the Newgrange monument, not through the doorway, but through the specially contrived small opening above the entrance known ...
Newgrange was the first prehistoric site in Ireland to have its astronomical alignment widely accepted, and since its discovery in 1967 has remained the best-known astronomically oriented archaeological monument on this island. This chapter investigates the discovery of the winter solstice orientation at this key light-centred site.
