Huge Temple Found Under Hill Of Tara (Ireland)

Irish Examiner ^ | 11-12-2002 | Evelyn Ring

[Mr. Mulliner]

Thanks for that info. Very interesting. I have a friend who has a much deeper interest in this stuff and has been to Ireland twice in the last year so I've just sent it on to her.

I like your analogy about the human sacrifice and the Democrats. In your analogy, who is our St. Patrick? President Reagan? President Bush?

[colorado tanker]

LOL!!

[GirlShortstop]

Lia Fail or Stone of Destiny


Yowzee!

[swarthyguy]

Those Shiva Lingam worshippers really got around, didn't they?

[DougSc]

If that was much smaller and bent it could be the Clinton stone.

[balrog666]

Why are these things always labeled temples? Why couldn't they be the local moose lodge or a brothel?

[goose1]

Not sure but I wonder who put the Hill on top of the Temple HMMMMM

[blam]

The Fomorians Africans In Ireland.

[APBaer]

"I wonder who put the Hill on top of the Temple"

I think it was the same guy
Who put the bomp in the bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp?
Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong?
Who put the bop in the bop sh-bop sh-bop?
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip?
Who was that man? I'd like to shake his hand,

[Evil Inc]

Gosh oh mighty that looks like....note the shrubbery at the base.

[SteveH]

Just for fun, what is the connection to "Gone with the Wind" if any? I always thought that the Georgia settlers were usually of English stock, not Irish. Or is the name just a coincidence? (Clarification welcome. Tara is something I feel I should know a lot more about, but unfortunately don't.)

Also a clarification on the postholes: is the measurement a posthole diameter or something more gross such as the width of a double row of holes around the perimeter? The former indicates a massive structure (almost mind bogglingly large) while the latter indicates a fortification, ceremonial pathway, etc.

[RightWhale]

If you look at other similar structures around the world, more being found all the time, they resemble stonehenge, a circle of posts of considerable radius from the center of the site. The posts would not have supported a roof or enclosure to a building, but would have been open to the wind. The purpose of the posts is unknown, but they could have been sighting points for astronomical purposes, or possibly navigational points as if a huge map in mathematical code. The location of a post would have represented the latitude of a port somewhere along the coast. Conjecture is that the American Stonehenge, Mystery Hill at North Salem, NH is a similar structure, which would have meant these people sailed across the Atlantic often enough to make such a mapping worthwhile.

[SteveH]

Right. Even so, post hole diameters of 2 meters is large in any book, I would think.

So I am trying to imagine it, and come up with some giant sundial-like complex with markers all around consisting of bound clusters of oak logs which could extend up to 100' or more. Fairly radical stuff. An inner ring of such things could have been the take off point for a stone ring like Stonehenge (I dunno), and all astronomically inspired as you say...

[RightWhale]

If they used the trunks of entire old oak trees, those trunks are fairly large. 6 feet diameter would be about right for the post hole, and allows a little room for straightening.

[PAR35]

O'Hara is an Irish name. Red hair is also linked to the Irish. So, Scarlett O'Hara of Tara.

Do yourself a treat, and re-read the book (if it hasn't been banned as politically incorrect.)

[swarthyguy]

Got your garden shears handy?

[nutmeg]

ping!

[Undertow]

Cool, man.

[Undertow]

Damn it, my pictures are not turning out tonight.

Hell with it! It's been a long day. I'm going to bed!