At 07:15 AM 7/10/2007, Christina Hunt wrote: >I am sending this on for your interest. (From Janet Crawford) >[...] >Petition to Minister Gormley, Minister for the Environment, Heritage >and Local Government, to Declare the Entire Hill of Tara Archaeological >Complex a National Monument and Re-route the M3 Motorway.[...] For more, see the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N3_road But, alas, this is the price that is extracted for the amazing modernization of Ireland. I'm old enough to have traveled in a pony & trap from a house that wasn't electrified till well after WW2. It was charming for an American visitor, but my relatives soon gave up charm for electricity and plumbing immediately after the death of the family matriarch. Ireland has irretrievably changed to a prosperous land where you can jump on the motorway to go shop in the supermarket and return to surf the net. I doubt many would choose to go back to taking the pony & trap on a single lane road to the village on Fair Day. Bob Kirk