placenamesTara
Teamhair
The wider district includes Lismullin, where motorway excavations revealed a timber enclosure and later underground chambers.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Teamhair · Irish · main form
- Tara · English · main form
Place & story
An enclosure in a hollow
Excavation at Lismullin in 2007 revealed two concentric outer rings of post-holes enclosing an area eighty metres across. A smaller circle, sixteen metres across, stood centrally within them, with an entrance on the east. Radiocarbon evidence placed the enclosure in the Iron Age. The excavator suggested a ceremonial function: its position in a hollow could have allowed people on higher ground to watch activities inside. [2]
Later occupation
The same site preserved evidence from several periods, including cereal-drying kilns and a two-chambered souterrain. A chamber roof incorporated a decorated kerbstone reused from a passage tomb. These later features show how older material could enter new structures in a landscape repeatedly occupied and altered. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tara. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2007:1349 — Lismullin (1), Meath, A008/021 A042 E3074 · Aidan O’Connell, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-09-26. How this page was prepared.