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  • #32
    funky penguin
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    I don't want to take from Tara's importance, as it is a national treasure, but Wood Quay is just as important. On an international scale, Wood Quay was a waterlogged site, and hence an Archaeological goldmine. But as you said, tis your opinion, so I'll say no more. :)

    Personally, I never had any problem with the M50 going "near" the Hill of Tara. It is, in itself, Archaeology in the making. I'm going to reserve judgement on this new site until more information is released.


  • #33
    csk
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    funky penguin wrote:
    I don't want to take from Tara's importance, as it is a national treasure, but Wood Quay is just as important. On an international scale, Wood Quay was a waterlogged site, and hence an Archaeological goldmine. But as you said, tis your opinion, so I'll say no more. :)

    Personally, I never had any problem with the M50 going "near" the Hill of Tara. It is, in itself, Archaeology in the making. I'm going to reserve judgement on this new site until more information is released.


    Hmmm...

    Of course I was talking about the whole of the Tara/skyrne valley area AND in terms of both archaeological and symbolic value, afterall it could be described as the Cradle of Irish civilisation, the hill of Tara, newgrange, the battle of the Boyne site etc. etc. The M3 should be rereouted.

    As someone else said, Dick Roche should swing from a tree. Thank God for small mercies though, and he will more than likely never be Taoiseach :)


  • #34
    DonJose
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    funky penguin wrote:
    On an international scale, Wood Quay was a waterlogged site, and hence an Archaeological goldmine.
    Agree with you 100%, around 20 years ago I was at a coin fair. A coin dealer told me that people would follow the dumper trucks carrying earth out of Wood Quay to where it was dumped and go through the earth with metal detectors. They found thousands of items worth god knows how much.


  • #35
    0ubliette
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    It depresses me that we live in such a country now, that we're willing to literally bulldoze our history and culture just so people can get to work a bit quicker. It actually makes me feel a bit ill. Preserved 'on record' me arse. This f*cking government should be ashamed of themselves, they've sold this countrys soul.


  • #36
    funky penguin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    DonJose wrote:
    Agree with you 100%, around 20 years ago I was at a coin fair. A coin dealer told me that people would follow the dumper trucks carrying earth out of Wood Quay to where it was dumped and go through the earth with metal detectors. They found thousands of items worth god knows how much.


    Not to mention all the pieces of cloth and wood that the water preserved....but I don't want to digress. :)

    Yesterday in the Times twas reported that the Meath Archaological and Historical Society have claimed this new enclosure is not the first monument to have been discovered:

    "This is not the only national monument that has been discovered in this section of the motorway - it is simply the only one that the roads authorities have so recognised as such".

    Under the National Mouments Act of 2004, naming a find a national monument or not is left entirely up to the developers on raod schemes.

    There are no criteria set for determining a national monument, leaving us to only guess how many important finds have gone unchecked - if any at all.


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  • #37
    csk
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    0ubliette wrote:
    It depresses me that we live in such a country now, that we're willing to literally bulldoze our history and culture just so people can get to work a bit quicker. It actually makes me feel a bit ill. Preserved 'on record' me arse. This f*cking government should be ashamed of themselves, they've sold this countrys soul.

    Yes it is a shame.

    As someone else pointed out all the stuff found in Wood Quay, just imagine what could be destroyed in Tara.

    Then there is the fact that Tara has huge International Significance compared with other sites in Ireland. Tara should be made a World Heritage Site, except our Government has yet to apply, I believe they want to build their motorway first. :rolleyes:

    See Here

    So what is the difference between Tara and Stonehenge? Both are seen as ancient sacred places of international significance. If anything Tara can lay claim to an even richer inheritence for unlike Stonehenge, Tara continued to hold a central role in Irelands heritage until well after Stonehenge had ceased to play a role in society - leaving behind a rich legacy of myths involving the miraculous feats of prospective High Kings and even Christian Saints.


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