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Nearly right, the amount of alignments and their timings at different sites is quite astounding. Newgrange catches the morning sun at Winter Solstice. The dead in their entirety weren't put into Newgrange, only a few selected bones.
Dowth (not far away from Newgrange http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=65, see latest article about opening to view) is aligned to the midwinter sunset as is Maeshowe in Orkney, which does have a webcam http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/
Knowth, near Newgrange has two long passages and some say is aligned to the equinoxes whereas Anthony Weir observed "Because the western passage is oriented somewhat south of west, to about 260 degrees azimuth, it is not aligned on the equinoxes as some have claimed, but rather 18 days before the Spring Equinox and 18 days after Autumn Equinox." Cairn T at Loughcrew has an equinox sunrise alignment and Cairn L there is aligned to Samhain/Imbolc. I think there's a bit more to the alignments than just funerary rites, although as always, our inability to understand the builders' intentions leaves us to speculate on their function.
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