*** LIVE Feed of Solstice Sunrise From NEWGRANGE ***

07.45 - 08.25 GMT (It's 07.25 now - for reference)

Live feed of the Winter Solstice sunrise from the passage grave at Newgrange.

[link to www.heritageireland.ie]

Newgrange was constructed over 5,000 years ago (about 3,200 B.C.), making it older than Stonehenge in England and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Newgrange was built during the Neolithic or New Stone Age by a farming community that prospered on the rich lands of the Boyne Valley.

Newgrange is best known for the illumination of its passage and chamber by the winter solstice sun. Above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange there is a opening called a roof-box. Its purpose is to allow sunlight to penetrate the chamber on the shortest days of the year, around December 21, the winter solstice.

[link to www.newgrange.com]