Vandal Strikes at Lia Fáil, Ireland’s Ancient Spiritual Heart

Stone of Destiny, also known as Lia Fail. Hill of Tara. County Meath. Source: jamegaw/Adobe Stock

Ireland’s “Stone of Destiny” – the Lia Fáil – or Stone that Roared, has been defaced by a mindless vandal. Although mindless isn’t quite right, at they actually seem to have thought about what they were doing, but got it wrong.

The Hill of Tara is located amidst a grassy otherworld, near Skryne in County Meath, Ireland. Known as an ancient spiritual hub with significant modern, cultural and religious importance, not only was this 100-acre site where the Ancient High Kings of Ireland were crowned, but a network of Neolithic and Iron Age passage tombs and burial mounds establish this as a deeply-ancient threshold between this world and the next.

However, towering above all other features at this ceremonial site, where death rites were once performed, is a stone lined avenue leading to a solitary standing stone known as the Lia Fáil or “Stone of Destiny.” Myths say the stone roared the name of the rightful king of Ireland, and it was this ancient, and indescribably sacred omphalos, that a so-called “mindless” vandal struck earlier this week.

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