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Nevitt north of Dublin

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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.

T tiompan
tiompan Sep 30, 2008 13:04:01
Replying to ryaner

ryaner wrote:
There's a map of the proposed sites here:

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

Nemetons /nemeids by their nature are not usually enclosed ,so what was once a "sacred grove " could be quite difficult to locate although there are examples of later christian buildings on the sites e.g. Nemed in Armagh had the addition of later chapel as did Portmahomack with it's monastery .

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