Hill of Tara - OPW

Sunrise this morning. As always no filter needed at Hill of Tara 📷Margaret

Where would you get it?….the sun rising this morning over The Hill of Tara 📷Margaret
Happy new Year everyone

As we move towards the shortest day of the year here are some photos of the sun rising over the Hill of Tara this morning taken between 8.05am - 8.25am

Sun rising over An Forradh at the Hill of Tara. A bright and very cold morning📷Margaret

St Patrick and a rainbow- Hill of Tara on a very wet and windy day. After all the rain earlier this beautiful rainbow appeared on the horizon. In the background is the Hill of Skryne. Dedicated to St Colmcille the bell tower dates to the 15th century. 📸Steven

Continuing our look at other Neolithic passage tombs visible from Hill of Tara...the impressive Great Mound Tomb 1 at Knowth lies North East of Tara, a journey as the crow flies of just under 16kms. Situated within the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO complex this is the largest passage tomb in Ireland. The photograph was taken at the southern end of the Banqueting Hall. Again located on a hilltop the burial grounds were used and reused at Knowth from approx. 3200BC📸Steven

ESB outage Tara area today- no audio visual presentation available in visitor centre. Guided tours as normal.

The monument at Newgrange is clearly visible from Hill of Tara- a journey "as the crow flies" of over 15 kilometres. Neolithic passage tombs are located on hilltops and the Boyne Valley contains approx. 40 of them 📸Steven

This is The Pentecost window in St Patricks Church Hill of Tara. Painted by the celebrated artist Evie Hone it was commissioned by the Irish state in 1932 to commemorate 1500 years of the arrival of Christianity to Ireland. The scenes show the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. The visitor centre at The Hill of Tara is open until 24 September. 📸 Steven

Catherine Boland and John Murray met on this very bench at Feis Teamhra in 2017. They met again here at the 2024 event and are now engaged. This photo was taken at our very successful
" A Turn at Tara" Heritage Week event on August 17th last. We wish Catherine & John the very best for their future together.
📸Steven

Some photos of our incredibly successful Wild Child Day here at Hill of Tara visitor centre yesterday. All the" So you want to be an archaeologist" workshops were all fully booked and even though the rain Gods decided to visit us for the third session we had a fantastic fun filled day with hopefully lots of happy future archaeologists. Thank you everyone who came along and a special míle buíochas to our guide Clodagh who did an amazing job 📸Steven📸Margaret