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Following the Blackwater upstream from Navan, the obvious place to make for is Kells , ten miles up the N3 Dublin-Cavan road. En route, you'll pass the site of the Tailteann games (on the hill above Teltown House), a little over halfway. Here, games and ancient assemblies sacred to the god Lugh took place in the first days of August. As late as the twelfth century the games were still being recorded, and right up to the eighteenth century a smaller celebration took place, in which locals rode their horses across the river for the benefit of the sacred qualities of its waters. Christianity eventually put paid to most of the rituals, but there is still talk of what was known as the Teltown marriages , where young couples would join hands through a hole in a wooden door, live together for a year and a day, and then be free to part if they so wished. Today only a few impressions in the soil remain, and certainly if you have visited Tara, or intend doing so, there's little to be gained in stopping here.
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