Enormous Irish Temple Discovered Underground
By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

The Hill of Tara in Ireland

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Nov. 21 — An enormous temple that was once surrounded by 300 towering oak posts
lies directly underneath the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Irish archaeologists
recently announced.

While the site is home to many known archaeological treasures, this latest
discovery reveals that even more exist underneath the sacred hill.

Conor Newman, an archaeology lecturer at the National University of Ireland at
Galway, located the temple, which he believes dates from 2500 to 2300 B.C. Since
1992, Newman has been preparing a survey of the area for the state-funded
Discovery Programme. He found the Tara monument using an underground radar
device.

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Mark Hall
Niigata Prefectural Museum of History

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