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Ben Of Howth

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  • 10-08-2005 1:51am
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    rcunning03
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    Does anybody know who's burial tomb it is on dun hill in Howth?. Are there any legends about dun hill ? Cause it is spectactular. I know there are a few legends about Howth, but I don't know the Irish place names so I kind of lose out in being able to place the locations geographically.


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    Nevyn
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    From what I was told growing up it is the burial place of a gaint.
    As part of the many battles that happened when 'people' were fighting the
    'gaints' that lived on the land.

    This was placed for me by my Nana as part of the cycle of stories to do with
    Finn Mc Cool and na Finna.
    Finn fought many of the giants that roamed the land.
    At first they wanted him dead for being his fathers son, and then for vengance for killing thier kin.
    (it was never clear about the gaints being Fir Bolg but they are described
    as Large, hideos and monstorous.)

    The last of them had tried to kill finn and he rallied his men to give chase.
    The Gaint tried to feel to the east of Eire to escape to scotland but didint make
    it and was buried where he fell in howth.
    So the Ben of Howth is the burial spot of the last of the irish gaints.
    Or so it was told to me and I have told it to mine.


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    rcunning03
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    Thaed wrote:
    From what I was told growing up it is the burial place of a gaint.
    As part of the many battles that happened when 'people' were fighting the
    'gaints' that lived on the land.

    This was placed for me by my Nana as part of the cycle of stories to do with
    Finn Mc Cool and na Finna.
    Finn fought many of the giants that roamed the land.
    At first they wanted him dead for being his fathers son, and then for vengance for killing thier kin.
    (it was never clear about the gaints being Fir Bolg but they are described
    as Large, hideos and monstorous.)

    The last of them had tried to kill finn and he rallied his men to give chase.
    The Gaint tried to feel to the east of Eire to escape to scotland but didint make
    it and was buried where he fell in howth.
    So the Ben of Howth is the burial spot of the last of the irish gaints.
    Or so it was told to me and I have told it to mine.

    Thanks


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