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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Once, but now no longer
was a sentiment brought to mind
with increasing regularity as our
trip in the Emerald Isle neared its end.
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If only stones could talk…
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France & Vincent 
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