Island of the Setting Sun: In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers

Island of the Setting Sun explores the sophisticated and enigmatic megalithic builders of the Stone Age in Ireland, who lived around 6,000 years ago and were responsible for constructing impressive monuments like Newgrange and those in the Boyne Valley. The book presents evidence suggesting these builders were adept astronomers, cunning engineers, and capable surveyors who created a vast, five-millennia-old calendrical and astronomical scheme. The text investigates the unity of science and spirituality within these monuments, revealing complex, and sometimes astonishing, alignments among significant archaeological sites that link them through mythology, archaeology, and cosmology. It also suggests that the cosmic worldview of Neolithic Ireland experienced a continuity right into the Early Christian period.

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