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Tara

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott

Last modified Jul 25, 2016 04:24 PM — History

tags: dare:major=0, dare:ancient=0, dare:feature=temple

Tara is an archaeological site comprising a number of ancient monuments. Tradition holds that the site was the seat of the High King of Ireland.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79708

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
53.58083985, -6.61008405

Locations:

OSM location of Rath of the Synods (3000 BC - 2000 BC)
DARMC location 7666 (30 BC - AD 640)

Names:

None

Tara makes connections with:

Tara connection Hibernia (unspecified date range)

Tara receives connections from:

None

Place type:
sanctuary (religious center), fort, tower

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 A1 Tara

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tara, IRE

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Tara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79708> [accessed: 20 September 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79708 |title=Places: 79708 (Tara) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=September 20, 2018 8:28 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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