Tara: An Archaeological Survey

Conor Newman's Tara, published by the Royal Irish Academy in 1997, is the standard archaeological survey of the Hill of Tara in Ireland, the ceremonial complex traditionally associated with the high kingship, based on Newman's own fieldwork. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed archaeological survey providing the detailed site record subsequent scholarship on Tara has built from. Its limit is that it is a survey documenting the physical remains rather than a full account of Tara's significance in medieval Irish literary and mythological tradition, so a claim about that literary material needs a source addressing it directly.