Tara Hill is situated at a particularly high point along the south east coast of Ireland and is surrounded by flat residential and agricultural land.

Nearby Gorey serves as a market town for the area, with a range of grocery stores, fashion boutiques, and restaurants including, Katie Daly's,[2] The Kitchen,.

[3] Tara Hill has two main walking trails around the Marilyn starting close to the village centre [see Tourism].

The summit is marked by a cairn from where one can see nearby Gorey, Courtown and other villages and town-lands and views of the North Wexford coast.

[4] The community in Tara Hill and Ballymoney announced in 2009 that they were making efforts to preserve the past, with plans to produce a new book on the social history of the area.

Several accounts of sightings of apparitions and strange lights in the woods of Tara Hill have also been recorded in local history adding to legend that it is reportedly haunted.

The Blue Slí na n-Óg trail, beginning from the Ballinacarrig parking place (known locally as the Crab Tree) goes to the higher slopes of Tara Hill itself.

The school regularly organises outings to nearby Tara Hill and Glendalough, and has a vegetable garden on its premises.