Sunlight flooded the inner chamber of the Neolithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange this morning, on the first day of three that the Office of Public Works is live-streaming the event.
The OPW's annual Winter Solstice gathering at Newgrange tomorrow has been cancelled due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions.
Last year, 30,000 people applied in a lottery to be allowed to be in the chamber for the event.
Instead, the Solstice Sunrise event will be live-streamed from within the chamber today, tomorrow and Tuesday.
Newgrange was built 500 years before the Pyramids in Egypt and more than 1,000 years before Stonehenge.
When conditions are right on the solstice, a narrow beam of light penetrates the roof-box above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange and reaches the floor of the chamber, gradually illuminating the entire chamber.
The event lasts for 17 minutes.
You can view tomorrow and Tuesday's solstice event here.
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