But it was of no avail; he was seized and led in chains to Tara. As Diarmaid refused to surrender Guaire, the Saint and his clergy assembled at Tara, where singing psalms and ringing bells they cursed the place for ever- more, praying that no king or queen should ever again dwell at Tara. The palace was shortly afterwards abandoned, and it probably soon became, what it is to-day, a mere mass of grass-covered earthworks. Professor R. A. S. Macalister in his ... Read More