 | Patrick Weston Joyce - 1869 - 562 pages
...commanding an extensive prospect, and in this sense it is frequently used as a generic term in Irish MSS. In Cormac's Glossary it is stated that the teamhair...originally one or more forts, which in case of many of them r emain to this day. 272 ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES. [PART III. The genitive of teamhair is teamhrach [taragh... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Irish literature - 1870 - 602 pages
...the teamhair of a country is a hill commanding a wide view. This meaning applies to every teamlwir in Ireland, for they are all conspicuously situated...characteristic example. Moreover, it must be remembered that a teumhair was a residence, and that all the teamhairs had originally one or more forts, which in case... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1874 - 238 pages
...(halcony), and that the teamhair of a country is a hill, commanding a wide view : a description which applies to every teamhair in Ireland, for they are all conspicuously situated.* 136 Looking to the use of those hills, it seems very probable that many of them would become sites... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1874 - 224 pages
...(balcony), and that the teamhair of a country is a hill, commanding a wide view : a description which applies to every teamhair in Ireland, for they are all conspicuously situated.* * Joyce, ut supra, pp. 271 — 2. Looking to the use of those hills, it seems very probable that many... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Irish literature - 1870 - 616 pages
...tlio tcamhair of a country is a hill commanding a wide view. This meaning applies to every teci.n/iair in Ireland, for they are all conspicuously situated...that a teamhair was a residence, and that all the tcamhain, t id originally one or more forts, which in case of many of them remain to this day. The... | |
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... a country is a hill commanding a wide view. This meaning applies to every teamhair in Ireland, for they are all conspicuously situated ; and the great Tara in Meath, is a most characteristic example. Moreover, it must be remembered that a teamhair... 