Sacred Art Rediscovered
Sacred Art rediscovered after thousands of years. Samhain is a special time of the year. It is the death of the old and the birth of the new. During the birth process a baby comes roaring out of the darkness of the nurturing womb into the glare of the light……and so it is with Tara’s latest birth brought to the light by archaeologists removing the cap stone of an early Christian  souterain  in the path of the insensitively placed M3.   This year for the first time in centuries the Samhain sun is illuminating a sand stone boulder with Neolithic glyphs placed there five millennia ago.  The boulder consists of zigzags and nested circles with some fine picking detail that looks as fresh as the day it was done. This boulder is as old as its sister on the hill top of Tara and to the touch is surprisingly warm, a sure sign of living energy, perhaps even a sleeping diva still in the stone.       During the start of Samhain a beam of the rising...

Wells of Tara
   The Sacred Wells of Tara    Tara ’s Sacred Wells – from the TARA Solstice Festival Booklet 2004 (updated 2008)   Water occupies about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills – Ambrose Bierce   The Hill of Tara as we see her today hides a great many mysteries, some mystical and some of a more concrete nature.   The subject of her wells is a mixture of both.   Undeniably there are a series of underground water channels, the proof of which is in the out pouring of her wells, however, both the exact number and location of these wells is only now being rediscovered.   One of the earliest type of documents, ‘the dindschenchas’ ( a collection of 10 th century prose/poetry which mentions topographical features and was translated by Petrie in 1839) names some of the wells, but the descriptions given do not fully tally with later medieval commentators.   Petrie produced an idealised map of the hill which has been tinkered with over...

Dowdstown Bridge Tara
The Gabhra and Skane flow from the east and west sides of the Hill of Tara to meet at Dowdstown Bridge.  They then travel through the grounds of Dalgan Park to join the River Boyne. Salmon spawn in these waters every year. The building of the M3 motorway proceeds and the distant horizon from the bridge is lost - 13.12.08 The close view remains the same....