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Campaigners at Tara demand that the ancient remains be reburied in a dignified manner and as closely as possible to the ceremonial layout of the original graveyards. It is estimated that over 60 bodies were disturbed and removed from the Collierstown site and over 27 from Ardsallagh to make way for the double-tolled M3 Motorway. Over the last 15 years of the Celtic Tiger, thousands of bodies have been removed from the earth and stored in warehouses.

Campaigners at Tara demand that the ancient remains be reburied in a dignified manner and as closely as possible to the ceremonial layout of the original graveyards. It is estimated that over 60 bodies were disturbed and removed from the Collierstown site and over 27 from Ardsallagh to make way for the double-tolled M3 Motorway. Over the last 15 years of the Celtic Tiger, thousands of bodies have been removed from the earth and stored in warehouses.

The Gabhra Valley is the putative site of the last battle of the Fianna in 284 A.D. and they were said to be buried where they fell along with Cairpre Lifechair king of Tara son of Cormac mac Airt.

The current campaign to have the bodies reburied has been given added impetus by the backing received from the recent World Archaeological Congress. Please help us by signing this important petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/taraeire/petition.html

Please help to create a Round Robin with this mail. The petition signatures are climbing very slowly so I am appealing to every one of my contacts again to sign and pass it on , if you have not already done so. If everyone passes it to at least one other person and they in turn do the same we will increase the number of signatures significantly.  Thank you.

Feel free to copy this post and add it to groups, blogs and forums. Hopefully the result of this petition will go a little way to make up for the terrible desecration that is happening in the Tara Valley.

Related Indymedia article with pics here:

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88413

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