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TARA na Ri
The destruction of the integrity of the Royal Pagan City of Tara by corporate fascism forcing the M3 toll road has brought pain to many who care for our unique heritage and culture. There was and is no actual need for the 4 lane, 24 hour floodlit double toll road to destroy the sacred Gabhra valley, better known as the Valley of the White Mare. The White Mare was the Goddess form honoured by our ancestors in the Iron Age and previous to that the Goddess was honoured as the White Cow in the Bronze Age.
Much has been discovered by archeology in the process of forcing the M3. But it is becoming clearer that much was also hidden by Meath Co Co and the NRA (National Roads Authority) and their servants and that there was constant downplaying of finds and importance of connectivity of the ritual landscape in the sacred valley. Monuments were treated individually and smothered with excessive archaeological verbosity by spin-doctors who obeyed an agenda that does not have protecting our cultural heritage as a factor. Many human bones were just left on heaps of earth by 22 ton diggers � see images and stories in http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/913557 http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/936941 http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/914151 http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/837902
http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/606996
But the politicians and toll road builders have not expected the public outrage that is boiling away and is now beginning to bubble over.
I am currently a student with NUIG doing an Archaeology Diploma course. I have learned that there is a responsibility in law on the person to whom an archaeological excavation licence is issued to either preserve any human remains or to have them re-interred within two years of discovery. The trick played by the government was to cause the licence for test trenching to be seen as suitable for the actual excavation and this adds huge responsibility on to the excavation licence holder. Two years have past long ago and nothing seems to be happening with respect to the ancestral remains.
Discovery and excavation has policy and procedures that even the NRA cannot dodge. Each �set of bones� will be recorded and photographed and numbered before being put in storage bags. My information is that most of the remains from the sacred valley of Tara are kept in an Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd warehouse in Drogheda.
Now it is important to note that Christian and Pagan remains were always buried differently. Photographs will show this. It, in theory, should be quite simple to identify the remains of Christian Ancestors and Pagan Ancestors by viewing the photographic records prior to excavation and relating this to �bag numbers�. Unique things help in the identification of human remains. This in turn would tell us which human remains are Christian and which are Pagan. The Christian Priests were buried facing the opposite way to their flock. Most Pagans will have what are called �grave goods� necessary for their activities in the next world.
It may just be that the Bishops of the dominant Church will eventually be forced to concern themselves with their followers� remains that have been removed from their resting places in Tara Valley because of the forced M3. Opus Dei at Lismullin may continue to try to be invisible but it is known that their need to protect the remains of the black friars� graves in the next field caused the M3 to be moved east thereby causing the discovery of the huge Henge etc. So it seems that some Catholic remains were protected by the Church and no regard is seen for other remains by the same church. But the Bishops have no right or concern with Pagan remains and I suggest that these Pagan Ancestors should be re-interred in a new mound on top of the Hill of Tara. There is no technical archaeological reason why this cannot happen � this new mound would not interfere with any strata below. In the audiovisual presentation in the de-consecrated church on the hill, the first few words tell us that for 1000�s of years the indigenous people have buried their dead on this hill. The work of the discovery programme has shown us that there are many more hidden burial barrows on Tara than are visible above ground. Many of these hidden burial barrows overlap previous hidden burial barrows so a new barrow or mound for the re-burial of our Pagan ancestors cannot pose any serious archaeological problem.
While we wait for the M3 to be removed from the sacred valley of the Goddess, it will be appropriate to have the Pagan ancestral remains re-interred on the Hill of Tara with the support and presence of today�s native Pagans. This dignified public ceremony of respect for our ancestors by the people is of great importance to restore some balance in the middle of such aggressive corporate destruction of our cultural heritage.
Con Connor
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July 08
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