Dindsenchas or Dindshenchas (modern spellings: Dinnseanchas or Dinnsheanchas or Dınnṡeanċas ), meaning "lore of places" (the modern Irish word dinnseanchas means " topography "), is a class of onomastic text in early Irish literature , recounting the origins of place-names and traditions concerning events and characters associated with the places in question. Since many of the legends being related also concern the acts of mythic and legendary figures, the dindsenchas has been an important source for the study of Irish mythology .
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44-455: A Junkers Ju 52/3m , carrying a group of 21 girl guides on a French government-funded trip to meet Irish girl guides, crashed into the upper south-western slopes of Djouce mountain in very poor weather. The crash completely ripped the engines from the plane, and thus the fuselage did not catch fire; all of the 27 passengers on board survived the crash, although some had severe injuries. Metrical Dindshenchas The literary corpus of
66-674: A number of other manuscript sources. The text shows signs of having been compiled from a number of provincial sources and the earliest poems date from at least the 11th century. The second recension survives more or less intact in thirteen different manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. This recension contains a number of poems composed after the Book of Leinster text. Dindsenchas stories are also incorporated into saga texts such as Táin Bó Cúailnge and Acallam na Senórach . Although they are known today from these written sources,
88-482: A point close to its summit; making the mountain even more accessible to the public, but while also protecting the underlying bog and soil from human erosion. Djouce is popular with hill walkers, and it lies along the 131-kilometre Wicklow Way ; on its southern slopes at a scenic viewpoint is the J.B. Malone memorial stone , dedicated to the creator of the Wicklow Way. According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, Djouce
110-554: Is a popular destination for hillwalkers due to its accessibility and views offered. The main route to the summit of Djouce is via the Boardwalk path that was created by the OPW in 1997–1999 using old railway sleepers, and since upgraded, to protect the ground and bog from human erosion. This route starts from the Ballinastoe Wood car-park, or the adjacent J.B. Malone car-park (off
132-544: Is called White Hill 630 metres (2,070 ft), and to the north of Djouce, across a small saddle is War Hill 686 metres (2,251 ft) Djouce's prominence of 200 metres (660 ft) qualifies it as a Marilyn , and it also ranks it as the 42nd-highest mountain in Ireland on the MountainViews Online Database , 100 Highest Irish Mountains , where the minimum prominence threshold is 100 metres. Djouce
154-504: Is given as part of Connaught suggesting a date before ~610 AD and the Battle of Knocklong. Christian references, and the Graeco-Roman myths and tales of Pagan atrocity associated with that influence are also mostly absent. Knowledge of the real or putative history of local places formed an important part of the education of the elite in ancient Ireland. This formed part of the training of
176-572: Is sometimes referred to Dowse in historical sources. Tempan notes that the old Irish word for "dígas" is high or lofty, but that while a "Sliab Digsa" is mentioned in the Metrical Dindshenchas , the second word is interpreted as a woman's name; potentially showing the meaning of "dígas" was unclear even at the time of the Metrical Dindshenchas (12th-century). The OSI Map uses the term Djouce Mountain . The River Dargle rises on
198-791: Is the 74th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, and the 91st–highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale. Djouce is situated in the northeastern section of the Wicklow Mountains , and dominates the views of the Wicklow Mountains from Roundwood to Newtownmountkennedy . Djouce is one of a few Irish mountains for which the Irish Office of Public Works (OPW) maintain a boarded mountain trail , using railway sleepers , from its base to
220-643: The R759 road). The first objective is the scenic point at the J.B. Malone memorial stone which overlooks Lough Tay with views across to Luggala (or Fancy Mountain). The boarded path then rises up to White Hill, before taking a ninety-degree turn northwards to the summit slopes of Djouce. At this point, the boarded path takes another ninety-degree turn eastwards along the Wicklow way (following this path leads to Powerscourt Waterfall and Enniskerry , alternative starting points for Djouce), however, climbers on Djouce leave
242-581: The corrie lake of Lough Tay to the southwest. It is bounded to the west by the R115 ; to the south by the R759 and to the west by the R755 . Its southern and eastern flanks are heavily forested, up to and above the 2,000 feet contour, mainly with Sitka spruce plantations. As these trees are clear-felled (when they mature), a policy of the reinstatement of native tree species is being pursued, either through planting or natural regeneration. Djouce's southern shoulder
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#1732855172932264-458: The dindsenchas are clearly a product of oral literature and are structured so as to be a mnemonic aid as well as a form of entertainment. They are far from an accurate history of how places came to be named. Many of the explanations given are made to fit the name and not the other way around, especially in the many cases where a place was much older than the Middle Irish spoken at the time of
286-466: The dindsenchas comprises about 176 poems plus a number of prose commentaries and independent prose tales (the so-called "prose dindsenchas " is often distinguished from the "verse", "poetic" or "metrical dindsenchas "). As a compilation the dindsenchas has survived in two different recensions . The first recension is found in the Book of Leinster , a manuscript of the 12th century, with partial survivals in
308-726: The dindshenchas may well have grown by accretion from local texts compiled in schools as a way of teaching about places in their area. Edward Gwynn compiled and translated dindsenchas poems from the Lebor na hUidre , the Book of Leinster , the Rennes Manuscript , the Book of Ballymote , the Great Book of Lecan and the Yellow Book of Lecan in The Metrical Dindshenchas , published in four parts between 1903 and 1924, with
330-448: The Apollo 1 Hills group on Mars See also [ edit ] Whitehill (disambiguation) White Hills (disambiguation) White Mountain (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title White Hill . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
352-623: The Circuit Court for Euro 40,000 in 2016 for an injury sustained in on the Djouce boarded walk (she required seven stitches after tripping on the boardwalk and cutting her knee near the J.B. Malone memorial stone ); however, her award was overturned in February 2017 following a High Court appeal by the NPWS, which rejected her arguments that a "trip hazard" is the same whatever the location. On 12 August 1946,
374-421: The boardwalk to take a stone and gravel path to the summit. The route from the car-park and back is 7-kilometres and can be completed without special hiking shoes and requires minimal navigational skills (due to the existence of the paths throughout the route). Alternative versions aim to create a "loop route" by avoiding the direct return to the boarded path on the descent of Djouce, and instead, walking over
396-594: The bogland to get to forest paths in Ballinastoe Wood that return to the car-parks; other routes expand on this "loop route" by also taking in War Hill 686 metres (2,251 ft) to the north of Djouce to create a longer 15-kilometre "loop-route". The future of boarded mountain paths and trails in Ireland was put in doubt when a climber, Teresa Wall, successfully sued the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in
418-473: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_Hill&oldid=1147493441 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages White Hill, Ireland Djouce ( Irish : Dioghais , meaning 'fortified height') at 725 metres (2,379 ft),
440-430: The military, for whom a knowledge of the landscape was essential. It was also essential knowledge for the bardic caste, who were expected to recite poems answering questions on place name origins as part of their professional duties. An early example of this are the tales about Mongán mac Fíachnai which date from at least as early as 750, where the poet Forgoll is asked to recite the lore of different places. Consequently,
462-740: The northern flank of the mountain, close to the source of the River Liffey in the Featherbeds ; they rise either side of the catchment boundary, the Liffey flowing west and the Dargle flowing east. Powerscourt Waterfall , one of the highest waterfall in Ireland, lies on its eastern slope. Djouce overlooks to the west the highlands around the Sally Gap ; to the east the Roundwood / Calary Bog plateau. It also overlooks
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#1732855172932484-410: The poems' composition. In other cases, the dindsenchas poets may have invented names for places when the name of a place, if it had one, was not known to them. A detailed analysis points to a pre-Christian origin for most of the tales. For example, many placenames appear which had fallen out of use by the 5th century A.D., when Irish written records began to appear in quantity. Furthermore County Clare
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