Both men and women were members of the Druid priesthood and held equal status. They were the most learned and respected among the Celts. Sci ence, healing, legal matters, astronomy, religious ritual and all-important areas of Celtic life were presided over by the Druids. Many traditions of the Druids survive to this day in parts of the Isles. Stonehenge is the best known of the ancient Druid stone circles.
Celtic legend tells of many powers of Druidic poets and seers.
Druid priests guided the crowning of Tara's High Kings. The King's ancestral line was sung in a poem as he was crowned. Lia F ail, brought to Ireland by the Tuatha De Danaan, stood as a sign of High Kings right to rule. Eremon was the first High King to sit at Tara, together with his wife Queen Tea. The High King Naill, from whome the O'Neill clan descended, ruled at Tara for twenty-seven years.