Tara saga — go see for yourself

THE current Heritage Week advertisement invites us to “look forward, look back and look around”.

This week is indeed an opportune time to visit the Hill of Tara and the Hill of Skryne before the M3 motorway changes the nature of Tara’s contested landscape irrevocably.

Perhaps the best place from which to observe the first phases of this transformation is at the point where the M3 corridor crosses the River Gabhra, close to the newly-discovered national monument at Lismullen.