Hill of Tara

The Hill of Tara is a hill and historic ceremonial and burial website online near Skryne in County Meath, Ireland. According to way of life, it turned into the inauguration vicinity and seat of the High Kings of Ireland and it also appears in Irish mythology. Tara includes severa monuments and earthworks from the Neolithic to the Iron Age consisting of a passage tomb the Mound of the Hostages, burial mounds, round enclosures, a standing stone believed to be the Lia Fail or Stone of Destiny and a ceremonial avenue. There is likewise a church and graveyard at the hill. Tara is a included national monument and is part of a larger historic landscape.

The name Tara is an Anglicization of the Irish name Teamhair or Cnoc na Teamhrach hill of Tara. It is also referred to as Teamhair na Ri Tara of the kings and formerly also Liathdruim the grey ridge. The Old Irish form is Temair. It is assumed this comes from Proto Celtic Temris and means a sanctuary or sacred space reduces off for rite, cognate with the Greek temenos and Latin templum. Another idea is that it manner a height with a view.