Appeal for information after Hill of Tara site 'mindlessly vandalised'.
The Lia Fáil, which is the stone of destiny and is very much part of the Tara archaeology, was spray-painted with the word 'Fake' and completely destroyed at the weekend."Tara is an extremely important site, it's a significant Archaeological site, and it's what we call the jewel in the Boyne Valley."Cllr Killian said Gardaí are investigating and while there is CCTV at a nearby shop, it is not on the site itself.
Meath County Council is"ironically" currently in the process of introducing a Tara conservation plan, he said."It happened, I think, Monday of the bank holiday - and we're asking anybody that might have been around the Hill of Tara to come back to the Gardaí and report what they [saw]."It's a very specialist job; and we're lucky it's an OPW site," he said."Then, in 2014, somebody painted it a multiple of colours.
"The OPW are very good at this sort of restoration and I've no doubt they'll do a very good job to bring it back to its pristine condition"."A lot of the people that use Tara are local people from the vicinity [or] from Dublin and who come every day to enjoy what they see in Tara," he said. "People would go for dog-walking, runners; the Meath team even trained on it years ago – so it's a multiple-use site," he added.
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