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Extract from the Tara Travel Guides:
TARA
, the home of the High Kings of Ireland and source of so many of the great tales, looks nowadays like nothing so much as a neatly kept nine-hole golf course: a gently undulating swath of green marked out by archeological plaques. Imagining the palace, whose wood-and-wattle structures have entirely disappeared, leaving only scars in the earth, isn't easy. But it's an effort worth making, for this was a great royal residence, already thriving before the Trojan Wars and still flourishing as late as the tenth century AD. The origins of the site are lost in prehistory, but it originally probably had a religious significance, gradually growing...
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