Hill of Tara Archaeological Complex (3D Model, hill-shade texture)

Tara is chief among the best known ‘royal’ sites of Ireland, including Dún Ailinne in Leinster, Crúachain in Connacht and Emain Macha in Ulster. It is at once a landmark and a vantage point. The barrows, mounds, conjoined circular earthworks and buildings, timber henges, linear embankments and sacred springs and marshes at these royal centres together make up prehistoric ‘ritual landscapes’ that h…