Nevitt north of Dublin

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moss Sep 30, 2008 10:34:25

Found this in the news, does anyone in Ireland know of it please? the argument seems to centre on the name Nevitt being an adaptation of Nemed - a celtic sacred place - the site in question a large ditched enclosure......

"Landfill hearing reopens on concern that site is prehistoric 'sacred place"

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0930/1222724572899.html

tiompan Sep 30, 2008 11:00:20

Replying to moss

moss wrote:

"Landfill hearing reopens on concern that site is prehistoric 'sacred place"

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0930/1222724572899.html

It would make some sense nemeton / nemeid when lenited in gaelic would sound like Nevitt . i.e mh =v . Dunno the site though .

ryaner Sep 30, 2008 12:30:27

Replying to moss

There's a map of the proposed sites here:

http://www.fingalcoco.ie/Planning/PlanningItemsOnDisplay/PlanningItemsPreviouslyonDisplay/L-ZPreviouslyonDisplay/ProtectedStructures-DraftVar09/PotentialSitesNevitt-Deletion/

I looked up Joyce but he doesn't have an entry for Nevitt.

North-west, about a mile from Nevitt, is Knockbrack hill, with a prehistoric (possibly passage tomb) cemetery on its northern slopes. Fourknocks is another 3 miles north-west. West of Nevitt, about a mile again, is another prehistoric mound.

Lusk or the Naul are the nearest big towns if you want to google earth it, though I think the maps for there are lo-res.

Fourwinds has been to the area, Knockbrack being an entry in his first book.