. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. ), and of theRight Hon. Richard Moore, sometime a Justice of the QueensBench. The latter place abounds in what have been not ina^Jtlycalled modern antiques, and was at one time known as the Fieldsof Odin, the deity worshijjjped by the Norsemen, to whom it was (^) See Transactions of the Ossianic Society, vol. iv., p. v. 5G PARISH OF WHITECHURCH. intended that the erection of the stone temple which Hermitagecontains shouhl be attributed. As in the neighbouring p
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. ), and of theRight Hon. Richard Moore, sometime a Justice of the QueensBench. The latter place abounds in what have been not ina^Jtlycalled modern antiques, and was at one time known as the Fieldsof Odin, the deity worshijjjped by the Norsemen, to whom it was (^) See Transactions of the Ossianic Society, vol. iv., p. v. 5G PARISH OF WHITECHURCH. intended that the erection of the stone temple which Hermitagecontains shouhl be attributed. As in the neighbouring parish of Cruagli, two undoubted relicsof its primitive inhabitants still in tlie parish of White-church. One of these, which stands in the grounds of Glensouthwell,is called from its shape the Brehons chair ; it formed, The Brehons Chair at Glensouthwell in 1776. From a drawing hij Gahritl Beranger. like the judgment seat at Killiney, jDortion of a cromlech, and,though long broken up and removed, there was formerly near it, asshown in the reproduction of a sketch by Beranger, what wasevidently the covering stone (i). The other relic, which is at aplace called Larch Hill, consists of an overthrown cromlech andan upright pillar stone (-). The outlying lands of the parishknown as Kilmashogue, near Kilmashogue Hill, where St. ColumbasCollege stands, were supposed, until lately, to have been the siteof a sanguinary battle, described in The Annals of the FourMasters, between tlie Norsemen and the Irish, but modernresearch has fixed tiie site of the battle as being near the RiverLiffey (3). () Boranorers Sketch Book in Iluval Irish Acatk^mv ; Dolmens ofIreland, vol ii., p. :}93. (-) See Borlases Dolmens of Ireland, vol. ii., y>. ^.)4, and for a drawing,plan, and description. Professor J. P. ORe
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