Fintan's Grave
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| Fintan's Grave | |
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| Fert Fintain, Dun Tulcha | |
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| Coordinates | 52°50′48″N 8°23′26″W / 52.8467°N 8.3905°W |
| Entrances | 1 |
Fintan's Grave is a mythological cave on the Irish mountain (now hill) Tul Tuinde[1] (Hill of the Wave) in the Arra Mountains near Lough Derg.[2][3]
Supposedly, Fintan mac Bóchra waited out the Flood here.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Mountain, Harry (May 1998). The Celtic Encyclopedia. Universal-Publishers. p. 679. ISBN 978-1-58112-892-5. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ "Annal M2242.1". Annals of the Four Masters. CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts. p. 5.
- ^ Joyce, Patrick Weston (1875). The origin and history of Irish names of places. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 253. ISBN 9780806345390. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ R. A. S. Macalister, ed. (1941). "§26-38: The Invasions of Cessair and of Partholon". Lebor Gabála Érenn: Book of the Taking of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Texts Society. p. §28.