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"'Caherdoon' which means 'stone fort stone fort'"

Bit like all those Knock Hills.

Some brochs are named "Dun", I think. Although I must admit that I don't know much about Brochs. But there's one on the Northern tip of Lewis called Dun Eistean, said to be the ancestral home of the Morrison clan.

Durham used to be called Dunholme which, if memory serves, is said to mean "the fort on the bend in the river". I wonder, though, what with the legends about Saint Cuthbert and the dun coloured cow. One thing seems very clear to me - and that's that the hill that now has Durham cathedral on it was of huge significance to the area's prehistoric population. I understand that there's some prehistoric stones to be seen in the Monk's Dormitory there, although I've never been because you have to pay to go in there and until recently I thought there was nothing but Christian stuff to be found there.

The St. Cuthbert thing is (unsurprisingly) robbed from Celtic lore. The earliest Irish Christian manuscript is called the <i>The Book of the Dun Cow</i> (Leabhar na Uidhre).

http://www.spinaweb.ie/showcase/1115/crafts/dun.htm

Queen Medb (Maeve) had a Dun cow, which she stole in the Cattle Raid of Cooley - a tale which involves a young Cuchulain. If you haven't read this, Tombo, you'll love it ...

http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/Cooley/

The one bit of all of this I love is here: http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/Cooley/ Squirrel.html
Medb had a squirrel and a bird on her shoulders - A bit of Norse? Medb = Yggdrasil, squirrel = Ratatosk and the bird = the eagle who sits on top of Yggdrasil?