Tallaght and the Paranormal

Stoner

You guys know I think there is something paranormal about tallaght that goes over and above the amount of people who live there.
There appears to be alot of people interested in the paranormal from there.
Following up on Kennetts remarks about it being some sort of graveyard I found this children of Danu etc

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cml/cml10.htm

"Their funeral-place is still marked by a mound near Dublin, called "Tallaght" in the maps, but formerly known as Tamlecht Muintre Partholain, the "Plague-grave of Partholon's People". This would seem to have been a development of the very oldest form of the legend--which knew nothing of a plague, but merely represented the people of Partholon as having returned"

It's funny that this guy thinks Tallaght is a mound? he must have never seen the square.

Anyway it appears as if a mass grave of Greek Partholon people is located there somewhere

http://www.southdublincountyhistory.ie/tallaght_history.htm

"Parthalon the Greek was one of the early invaders of Ireland. A plague killed 9,000 of his followers in one week and they were buried in Tallaght and its environs and so the place came to be named Taimleach Muintire Parthalon. However, the burials which have been found in the Tallaght area are all normal pre-historic interments, mainly of the Bronze Age, and nothing suggesting a mass grave has so far been recorded here."

It also seems as if a monestry was set up by St. Maelruain in 769 in A.D. and

"The monastery was a centre of learning and piety and was particularly associated with the Céli Dé spiritual reform movement ..... It was such an important institution that it and the monastery at Finglas were known as the “two eyes of Ireland”. "

As stated before but in another thread, most of the soulsearchers gang are from there, then we have the man, the legend 6th and others.

Never mind the Hellfire club, the first haunted place most dubliners ever heard about,

And as grimes said a very small battle
http://www.activate.ie/sites/sdublinlib/battle.html

Just thought I'd stick this up, if it's not worth talking about sure we can return to talking about jocks again. (as in man knickers Ed)

SemperFi

I believe the Partholonians were in tallaght in 2379 BC, a very long time ago indeed. The Hill of Slane is rumoured to be one of their burial places.

There are however about a dozen "Tallaght/Tamhlacht" place names in Ireland. So where do you want to start? lol

OMcGovern

There is also another landmark in Tallaght, that has a history of being worshipped by primitive people.... "The Square"

stormkeeper

OMcGovern wrote:

There is also another landmark in Tallaght, that has a history of being worshipped by primitive people.... "The Square"

Hey now, are you implying that we're primative?


Seriously though, I do wonder if The Square has had any weird happenings in it...

Nevyn

Ireland is pretty lucky that we have the signs of our heritage in the landscapes.
Places are named after what happened there and it is easy to research and foind out the true meanings of place names and hence the tales, stories, myths and legends of what happened there.

If you hold with the idea that there can be events so tramamtic that they effect the land
and can echo down time and influence an area then you may draw the conculsion that Tallagha
and the estated build arround the village were ill fated and it could have some effect on why the
area was a black spot or a trouble spot for so long.

There are other places that have the same resonances and can be hard places to live in as a result.

stormkeeper

I'm aware that Offaly is a particularly "active" county, given that there are at least 3 haunted castles, those being Charleville Forest, Leap and Kinnity. This may have something to do with leylines passing through the area. Also, the county of Essex over here has very similar happenings, it seems, given that there are quite a few haunted areas here.

Stoner

I read the following somewhere else

"here's some thing if you ever go to the hellfire club close your eyes and rub your hands over the building stone you will feel names. the building is made out of grave stones"

Is there any truth in this, I never noticed them , it sounds dodgy?