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| | NUI Galway, Department of Archaeology, Undergraduate Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23) |
 | | In late prehistory it was demarcated, and defended, by a ring of earthwork fortifications that corresponds very closely with the royal demesne, the ferenn ríg, as historically defined and which in turn corresponds closely with later Barony of Skreen. |
 | | However, since the Environmental Impact Statement failed to provide any mature analysis of the impact this motorway would have on the Tara landscape, and instead merely listed the sites/monuments to be destroyed by it, it failed to provide NRA/MCC with a complete picture upon which to base their decision. |
 | | We are not opposed to the motorway per se, but are saying instead that one of the alternative routes that would have less impact on this uniquely important landscape should have been chosen. |
| www.ucg.ie /arc/Tara_History-Ireland.html (1867 words) |
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