County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022…

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All roads lead to Tara

as they say.

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Or at least

all the roads in Ireland.

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But like so much else

that we have considered

on this trip

what remains to us is

not even half of the story.

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The ‘king stone’

about which so much is made

these days no longer stands

in its original position.

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It originally stood in front

of the mound now named

for Niall’s Hostages

and acted as a gnomon for

the sunlight entering the mound

as we have seen with the monuments

so recently left in our wake back at the Boyne Valley…

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