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Breaking News. More Significant Findings at Tara

category national | history and heritage | news report author Saturday December 01, 2007 18:09author by anon Report this post to the editors

Govt fails to protects our heritage at Tara again

Yet another find over the past few days of Neolitihic underground chambers has been made at Tara and which have been kept from public knowledge by the Government and the road contractors. For more details see the brief report below.

A team of activists over the past few days have uncovered the remains of 6 chambers at the souterrain (underground pit) beside the Lismullen Henge, but due now only 2 to 3 chambers remain.

In one of the chambers, there is still a good bit of the passage which is quite long and zigzags connecting the chambers. The flagstone is Neolithic and may have been recycled from the souterrain which are often lined with such flagstones. There is also rock art and it has two interconnected circles and above a line of zigzags. This is similar to the types of designs one would see in NewGrange. All of this raises the very strong possibility that the whole area is very significant and has other findings yet to be demolished for the sake of the motorway.

Mechanical diggers are working on this site for the next few weeks. This is how the government now looks upon our great heritage.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Photos     Rational Inquirer    Sat Dec 01, 2007 18:50 
   Hmmm     Damien    Sat Dec 01, 2007 21:22 
   photos     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Sun Dec 02, 2007 16:45 
   Megalithic artwork at Lismullin souterrain     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Sun Dec 02, 2007 17:10 
   More photos     Muireann Ni Bhrolchain    Sun Dec 02, 2007 17:17 
   mechanical diggers     digger    Mon Dec 03, 2007 14:02 
   souterains     digger    Mon Dec 03, 2007 14:05 
   Read the press release again     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Mon Dec 03, 2007 15:39 
   .. "assumed hoax"     related    Mon Dec 03, 2007 17:05 
 10   The stone     Muireann Ni Bhrolchain    Mon Dec 03, 2007 17:42 
 11   reuse of stones     Mchael Martin    Mon Dec 03, 2007 19:03 
 12   And many more discoveries to come     TaraTaraTara    Mon Dec 03, 2007 20:30 
 13   Scepticism     Seoras    Tue Dec 04, 2007 09:42 
 14   Crying Wolf ...     Damien    Tue Dec 04, 2007 09:58 
 15   The original     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:32 
 16   All gone     anon    Tue Dec 04, 2007 16:18 
 17   Archaeology     Muireann Ni Bhrolchain    Tue Dec 04, 2007 16:44 
 18   souterrain gone - but the Valley still holds secrets -     marcella    Sun Dec 23, 2007 16:06 
 19   picture of the souterrain     marcella    Sun Dec 23, 2007 16:18 
 20   I Walk The Line ...... on New Years Day 2008     marcella    Sun Dec 23, 2007 16:48 


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