Applications can be made by email to BrunaBoinne@opw.ie. Please supply your Name, Address, Country, Telephone number and email address.

People gather at Newgrange for winter solstice dawn on each of the mornings from December 19th to December 23rd inclusive. Sunrise is at 8.58am. All access to the chamber is decided by lottery. However, everyone else is welcome to come and stand on the outside of the monument.

The draw for places at Newgrange for Solstice takes place in September. The successful people will be notified by mid October.

Eight names are drawn for each of the solstice mornings. Each person drawn can bring a guest to attend on a specific morning, resulting in sixteen people on each of the five mornings. Some additional names are also drawn and placed on a reserve list. The reserve list is there in case someone whose name is drawn for the initial list is not contactable or else finds it impossible to travel to Newgrange on the date they have been assigned.

The place at Newgrange for Winter Solstice dawn is non-transferable. Lottery winners cannot offer their place in the chamber to someone else. There are typically 30,000 entries for Solstice Lottery Draw.

There is no guarantee that there will be sunlight in the chamber on any of the mornings, the event is totally weather dependent!

Newgrange Winter Solstice Archive

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