Tara

Tara is a town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland. The town was surveyed in May 1910 by Leonard Shield.

The name 'Tara' was used as the name for a pastoral run on 25 March 1852, and it is assumed that the name was a reference to the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland.

The town of Tara is situated at the centre of the locality, and immediately surrounding the urban area of Tara, there are a number of rural subdivisions or 'lifestyle blocks'. These blocks are mostly between 13 ha and 40 ha in area, and the population of the 2000 rural subdivision blocks exceeds that of the town itself.

In the 2021 census, the locality of Tara had a population of 1,980 people.