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  • 07-03-2014 11:43am
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    cfuserkildare
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    Hi Folks,

    Can anybody shed a little light on the pits at the end of the " Banquet Hall " on Tara Hill.


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    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Surely somebody can enlighten me,
    Or am I asking stupid question?


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    Poor Uncle Tom
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    Wakeman_Plan_of_Tara.png

    I think you are referring to Dall and Dorcha?


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    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    Wakeman_Plan_of_Tara.png

    I think you are referring to Dall and Dorcha?


    Hey Mate,

    I am referring to the other end of the " Old Hall"

    15feet plus in depth.


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    Sultan of Swing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭Sultan of Swing


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Hey Mate,

    I am referring to the other end of the " Old Hall"

    15feet plus in depth.

    The image below is a hill-shaded model of the Teach Midhchúarta.It appears in Conor Newman's 'Tara - An Archaeological survey'(Discovery Programme Monographs 2).The 'pits' at the northern terminus(although it hasn't been definitively proved that there was a terminus there by the survey) would appear to be modern quarrying.How modern - late or post medieval - I'm not sure?O'Donovan(1836) refers to a passage from the description of the 'Banqueting Hall' contained in the prose of the Dindsenchas which states that the 'northern end of it is enclosed and small',suggesting that the northern end may have had a terminal too.


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