Save Tara!
Ganked from amhranaiochta's lj.
I want to encourage all of you to go here
and here
to sign petitions to protect Tara. The proposed M3 freeway will pass through the Tara-Skryne Valley, at its closest coming about 4000 feet from the Hill of Tara itself. The entire region around Tara is considered invaluable by archeaologists. To quote one petition: "Nowhere else in Ireland is there a landscape that can claim the Tuatha de Danaan, Celtic gods and goddesses, St. Patrick, Daniel O’Connell, Thomas Moore, heroes and High Kings from Fionn MacCumhail to Brian Boru, an archaeological complex of temples, tombs, enclosures and henges spanning five millennia, and a continuous place at the centre of Irish spiritual, cultural, political and literary history, as part of its fabric."
I don't know how much online petitions actually do (money probably speaks far louder, and if there were somplace to donate to Tara's upkeep to prevent it from becoming the next Schleiman's Trench, I'd put up some cash), but it's worth a shot.
I want to encourage all of you to go here
and here
to sign petitions to protect Tara. The proposed M3 freeway will pass through the Tara-Skryne Valley, at its closest coming about 4000 feet from the Hill of Tara itself. The entire region around Tara is considered invaluable by archeaologists. To quote one petition: "Nowhere else in Ireland is there a landscape that can claim the Tuatha de Danaan, Celtic gods and goddesses, St. Patrick, Daniel O’Connell, Thomas Moore, heroes and High Kings from Fionn MacCumhail to Brian Boru, an archaeological complex of temples, tombs, enclosures and henges spanning five millennia, and a continuous place at the centre of Irish spiritual, cultural, political and literary history, as part of its fabric."
I don't know how much online petitions actually do (money probably speaks far louder, and if there were somplace to donate to Tara's upkeep to prevent it from becoming the next Schleiman's Trench, I'd put up some cash), but it's worth a shot.