Winter Solstice 2006 (actually) | Forum

bawn79 Dec 11, 2006 11:49:33

Anyone got any potential/proven alignment sites down in Cork for the Winter Solstice?
Also the usual how many days before/after will the effect be similar?

I think I will find it hard to make it out on the actual morning of the 21st, I have to head to Dublin that afternoon for my Xmas party, however I will be around (in a worse for ware state on the morning of the 22nd in Killiney if anyone whats to take me off to look at the sunrise!).

I might head up to Baurnaglanna/ Baurnadoomeeney on the 23rd to take a look. All of course is weather and drink dependent!

What are peoples plans?

CianMcLiam Dec 11, 2006 12:43:17

Replying to bawn79

Not sure yet what I'm doing or if I can get the time off, but in Cork Drombeg has a near solstice (sunset) alignment from the recumbent to a notch in the hills, I've never seen any photographic accounts of it yet. There's one or two more I suspect for an evening alignement but none for the morning sunrise that I can think of.

postman Dec 11, 2006 15:02:16

Replying to bawn79

bawn79 wrote:

Anyone got any potential/proven alignment sites down in Cork for the Winter Solstice?
Also the usual how many days before/after will the effect be similar?

Your in luck on the stonehenge solstice thread Pete G says the 22nd is the actual solstice .
With luck I'll be out all day sunrise at Swinside sunset at Torhousekie

tomwatts Dec 12, 2006 02:01:23

Replying to bawn79

Are you talking about this year or 2007?

CianMcLiam Dec 14, 2006 18:22:22

Replying to bawn79

Not sure this qualifies as a 'stone circle' but they are calling it that anyway and it marks the winter solsitce. Dates to the Japanese Jomon period which broadly stretches from out late Mesolithic to early Iron Age...

http://www.jomon.or.jp/eabiko.html