. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . n loves to connect the great cromlech. According to onelegend it was a quoit thrown by Finn MacCumhaill from theBog of Allen, and according to another it was raised to markthe resting-place of Aideen, who died of grief for the loss of herhusband, Oscar, in the battle of Gabhra:— Imperfect in an alien speech, When, wandering here, some child of chance Throiigli pangs of keen delight shall reachIlie gift of utterance, Howth had been a seat of Druidical worship,
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . n loves to connect the great cromlech. According to onelegend it was a quoit thrown by Finn MacCumhaill from theBog of Allen, and according to another it was raised to markthe resting-place of Aideen, who died of grief for the loss of herhusband, Oscar, in the battle of Gabhra:— Imperfect in an alien speech, When, wandering here, some child of chance Throiigli pangs of keen delight shall reachIlie gift of utterance, Howth had been a seat of Druidical worship, the Mona of Ireland, and that Athairnebelonged to a college of their bards : In early times for solitude so famed, That here our bards their soft asylum chose, Whose song divine the savage soul reclaimed,And martial manners soothed to sweet repose. ( Howth, a Descriptive Poem, by Abraham Bosquet: Dull., 1787.)Cf. Thomas Miltons Views of Irish Seats, Dubl., 1786. iProc. , X, 331. 2 OCurrys Lectures on Irish History, passim; Book of Howth, p. 7;Trans. Ossianic Society, i, 74 ; iv, 84 ; vi, 88 ; Journal , xxiii, Y. f. m EARLY TIMES. 15 To speak the air, the sky to speak, The freshness of the hill to tell;Who roaming bare Benn Etars peak And Aideens briary dell,And gazing on the cromlech vast And on the mountain and the sea,Shiill catch communion with the past, And mix himself witli By Ptolemy, who has shown it on his map as an island, thepeninsula is called Edrou Heremos, or the desert of Edros ;2 butit is said by Camden* to have been at one time covered with oaks,although it was in his time bare of trees. Camdens view is alsotaken in two Irish quatrains which have been thus translated :— Hill that beyond every tulach is verdant-surfaced, Whose summit is green-treed and tremulous ;Eminence famed for sword-blades, forest-clad, gentian-growing ; A hill variegated, having jutting points and flowing mane ;Hill the most beautiful that dominates Irelands coa
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