With all good wishes in this new year, I share Angela’s post about this year’s Winter Solstice sunrise at Newgrange. Angela is the excellent author of “A Silver Voice From Ireland.”
Older than the Pyramids in Egypt and older than Stonehenge, Newgrange is the jewel in the crown of ancient sites in Ireland. Engineered about 3,000 B.C. Newgrange is an enormous mound that covers an area of about an acre. Constructed by some of earth’s earliest farming communities in the Boyne Valley, Newgrange, and similar mounds at Knowth and Dowth are a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site. Originally thought to be a burial mound, Newgrange may have been an ancient temple. It is famed for the fact that for a few days around the time of the at the Winter Solstice, the long passage to the interior is lit by the rising sun. The exact date and time of the Winter Solstice varies slightly from year to year. In Ireland in 2013 it will occur today( 21, December 2013) at precisely 17:11 p.m.
Newgrange was engineered so that the narrow shaft of…
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Maher Matters 
Janet, Thanks for the reblog – I would never have known about it otherwise.
Best wishes for the New Year
Paul.
Happy new year, Paul. Yes, I think you’d like all her posts!