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Howth

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Howth [ON höfuth, headland]. Peninsula jutting into the Irish Sea 9 miles NE of Dublin, scene of many actions in early Irish literature; by extension Howth is also the name of a 19th-century fishing village and a modern, fashionable suburb. In the oldest literature the locale is more often known as Benn Étair, the Old Irish name for the Hill of Howth (560 feet). Crimthan Nia Náir built one of his two fortresses, Dún Crimthainn, here. The first church on the site was built by the fabled King Sitric [Sigtryggr] as early as 1042. Howth Castle, begun 1564 and remodelled many times, is the subject of many legends, the best-known of which is that Granuaile [Gráinne Ní Mháille], having been denied entrance at dinner-time, assured that its gates would evermore be open to the hungry traveller. James Joyce uses Howth Castle and environs as one of the many manifestations of HCE in Finnegans Wake (1939). Oscar and Étaín (3) are thought to be buried here.

Bibliography

See The Book of Howth: Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts, ed. J. S. Brewer and W. Bullen (London, 1871);
Whitley Stokes , ‘The Siege of Howth’, Revue Celtique, 8 (1887), 47–64.

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Howth

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Howth Dublin. ‘Headland’. OScand. hǫfuth. The Irish name of Howth is Binn Éadair, ‘Éadar's peak’.

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