Irish Hallmarked Sterling Silver
 
Made in Ireland by Amethyst of Dublin
 
Tara Brooch
 
The Tara Brooch is a Celtic brooch of about 700 AD. It is generally considered to be the most impressive of over 50 elaborate Irish Brooches. It was supposedly found in August 1850 on the beach at Bettystown, Co. Meath.
 
The finder a woman and her two young sons claimed to have found it in a box buried in the sand. It was sold to a Dublin Jeweller who named it the “Tara Brooch”.