Teltown (Irish: Tailtin) is a townland in County Meath, Ireland, for the area between Oristown and Donaghpatrick, Kells. The townland is in a civil parish...
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presumed goddess from Irish mythology. The goddess's name is linked to Teltown (< OI Óenach Tailten) in Co. Meath, site of the Óenach Tailten. A legendary...
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a complex of ancient earthworks dating to the Iron Age in the area of Teltown where the festival was historically known to be celebrated off and on from...
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with picturesque details. First the ships were reduced to one ship over Teltown from which a crewman threw and then recovered a fishing-spear. Then the...
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refer to: Teltown (Irish: Tailtin, genitive Tailteann), townland in County Meath, Ireland Tailteann Games (ancient), Gaelic festival held at Teltown until...
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wife was the Goddess Tailtiu. Eochaid named his capital after her (modern Teltown, County Meath) and held a festival there every August. He ruled for ten...
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silvery coating was gone. AD c. 740 Air ship of Clonmacnoise •EUEU, Ireland; Teltown in County Meath, and Clonmacnoise in County Offaly Several sets of Irish...
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memory of his foster mother, Tailtiu, at the town that bears her name (now Teltown, County Meath). He likewise instituted Lughnasadh fairs in the areas of...
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famous of which was the Aonach Tailteann "Tailtin Fair", held at Tailtin (Teltown) in Mide. According to the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, the fair was...
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Irish places called the Metrical Dindshenchus, a poem about Tailtiu or Teltown in County Meath describes it as a plain blossoming with flowering clover...
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kingship. For instance, the King of Tara presided over assemblies at Tailtiu (Teltown) and Tlachgta (the Hill of Ward) during the Lughnasadh festival. Historian...
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1212: church confirmed to the knights; hospice extant 1331 Cardomiston Teltown Monastery early monastic site, founded before 723 Tailltui; Cell-talten;...
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Talten) known from historical documents, with the modern settlement of Teltown being representative of the old place name. Conwell also linked a large...
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which is given prehistoric origins by medieval writers. This was held at Teltown, in modern County Meath, as late as 1770. The compilers of the Irish annals...
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Paris for immorality St Columba was excommunicated in 562 by the synod of Teltown for allegedly praying for the winning side in an Irish War. The excommunication...
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Kilmainham 1,294 Upper Kells Teltown Kells Kilmainham (Headfort) 200 Upper Kells Kells Kells Kilmainham (Headfort) 51 Upper Kells Teltown Kells Kilmainhamwood...
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"Tailteann" alludes to the Tailteann Games, an ancient Gaelic festival held in Teltown (Tailtin) between Navan and Kells. Páirc Tailteann is the venue of the...
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6119°W / 53.5775; -6.6119 (Hill of Tara) Telltown The earthworks at Teltown (Taltin), Upper Kells, Meath. Bronze Age 53°42′01″N 6°45′59″W / 53.7003°N...
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Skreen Slane St. Marys Stackallan Staholmog Stamullin Straffordstown Tara Teltown Templekeeran Timoole Trevet Trim Trubley Tullaghanoge Tullyallen There...
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indicates that they were also used for a ceremony of grasping hands to form a Teltown marriage, this being a marriage of a year and a day in which either party...
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disturbance at the Óenach Tailten—an annual Uí Néill gathering held at Teltown—where two men were killed. Then in 718 Conall Grant won a victory over...
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pre-Christian kings of Ireland buried on Croghan; on burial places in Teltown 911 s.f. 192 Compert Mongáin 'The Birth of Mongán' 912 'A story from which...
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disturbance in 717 at the Oenach Tailtiu—an annual Uí Néill gathering held at Teltown—where "Ruba's son and Dub Sléibe's son" were killed, but the annalistic...
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1212: church confirmed to the knights; hospice extant 1331 Cardomiston Teltown Monastery early monastic site, founded before 723 Tailltui; Cell-talten;...
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