CLAIRE BYRNE AND SOLSTICE I'll be on the Today with Claire Byrne show on RTÉ Radio One tomorrow morning (Friday) at around 11.15am to talk about the upcoming winter solstice and various solstice-aligned monuments in Ireland. Tune in live on 88-90Mhz FM or on the RTE Player.

The Boyne Valley was looking resplendent this morning after a cold night. Frost and a lingering mist over the River Boyne made for a stunning drone photo captured at Ardmulchan, a few miles east of Navan. #discoverboynevalley #failteireland #mythicalireland #drone #sunrise #mist #frost #landscape

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Four views of the Stone of the Seven Suns at Dowth. Painting with light. mythicalireland.com/blogs/news/s... #dowth #sevensuns #megalithicart #neolithic #monument #prehistory #prehistoricireland #mythicalireland #mythicalirelandcommunity #megalithic #torch #stones

A rare hoar frost in the Boyne Valley, pictured almost a year ago. After sunrise, the hoar frost began to melt, leaving some of the #Knowth monument green, and the rest white. mythicalireland.com/products/hoa... mythicalireland.com/products/kno...

Embers in the fire of evening. A stunning red sky over #Newgrange (Síd in Broga). mythicalireland.com/products/bea... #redsky #twilight

I have created this annotated top-down LiDAR image of the Bend of the Boyne (based on an image shared by Jošt Hobič on his Twitter feed) to demonstrate just how many monuments there are in the World Heritage Site at Brú na Bóinne. Read more: mythicalireland.com/blogs/news/t...

𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 '𝗙𝗨𝗔𝗥' 𝗢𝗙 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦 Fourknocks is a most special and remarkable Neolithic monument. Despite its apparent minuscule size, its chamber has a deceptively sizeable area – a large, interior, welcoming space. Read more: mythicalireland.com/blogs/news/f...

Fourknocks is a small but remarkable Neolithic passage-tomb near the Boyne Valley in Ireland. A small mound, it has the largest chamber floor area of any excavated passage-tomb. Read more on www.mythicalireland.com

SOLSTICE IS COMING: as the sun stoops inevitably towards its lowest ebb, I look forward to the coming of Grianstad (stopped sun), the winter solstice and the magnificent illumination of the chamber of that extraordinary monument to the Neolithic human spirit, Síd in Broga (Sí an Bhrú/Newgrange).