Tara
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 04, 2023 08:02 PM
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79708
53.5807290785, -6.6103820088
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Rath of the Synods (3000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 7666 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Tara connection Hibernia (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), fort, tower (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 A1 Tara
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tara, IRE
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, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79708> [accessed: 14 July 2025]
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