Tara - not motorway related

NeilJ

So can anyone tell me a bit more about Tara in terms of logistics. What's it like accessibility wise for non-drivers? Also are there camping/hostel/b&b facilities? How friendly are the local community to Pagan visitors?

Neil

PaulinCork

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/HistoricSites/East/HillofTaraMeath/

http://www.knowth.com/tara.htm

Nevyn

Event - Monday, May 23 2005
Full Moon "Ritual of Protection" on Tara, Monday, May 23.
by Con Connor - Irelands Druidschool Sunday, May 15 2005, 10:33pm
info@druidschool.com address: Dublin
meath / rights and freedoms / event notice
Open and free invitation to Ceremony for Tara
Full Moon, 23rd May 2005, Monday, Tara. This is the last Full Moon “Ritual of Protection” by Druidschool before the Full Moon Summer Solstice Tara Pilgrimage 05 on 21/22 June. We will start our sacred fire by 8ish and finish by ten. Meet on the gravel patch beside the Rath of the Synods at 8pm. We will use our native Celtic Irish language during this ceremony with explanations in English. All are welcome to attend this free and open ritual ceremony on Tara. We ask that you bring some wood from your hedge or local forest for the sacred fire. Our intention is to express our freedom and our desire is to protect Tara and Save Tara Valley for the future generations. The valleys and hills beside the Spiritual Jewel of Tara are its Landscape Setting. This holistic understanding is what we wish to protect. We wish to preserve and protect this huge intact complex of temples that surround Tara. More details on the May Moon and the Solstice Moon and Druidschool are in the link belo w.
http://www.druidschool.com

Nevyn

NeilJ wrote:

So can anyone tell me a bit more about Tara in terms of logistics. What's it like accessibility wise for non-drivers?

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/HistoricSites/East/HillofTaraMeath/

http://www.ireland-withpatpreston.com/dublin-tours-into-countryside.htm#Boyne

It is hard to get to directly with out taking a tour.
But a bus eirean bus heading to navan will drop you at the small road up to the Hill, it is a 20 to 30 mins walk from there.

NeilJ wrote:

Also are there camping/hostel/b&b facilities?

No there arent any unless you head to wards dunshauglin or towards Navan.
People do camp on teh mound it's self for midsummers mind but that is an exception.

NeilJ wrote:

How friendly are the local community to Pagan visitors?

That depends on what you are planning to get up to, a lot of people visit Tara every day but if you staging ritual you will get yourself into a bit of trouble.
The coffee shop is pretty nice and thier scones are yum.



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Suaimhneach

Depends what ritual really. I attend the Druid School ritual almost every moon, as do at least ten other people each month, and we do not get into any trouble. Except from curious passers by, who sometimes join themselves.

But then Druid School do not damage the land or leave any evidence of their presence, other than maybe raising the energies.

Afaik, I havent read any of it yet, there is articles up on the site about Tara that were recently translated. But they'd be more the history as opposed to the current status of Tara.

There is one B&B directly across from the hill itself, probably expensive though. Dunno the name of it.