Cnoc Meadha

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Template:Short description Template:Refimprove Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use Irish English Cnoc Meadha known as Medb's hill (also Cnoc Meádha Siuil[1] referring to its location on the plain of Maigh Seóla, and variously spelled Knockmagha, Knockma, or Knock Ma) is a hill west of Tuam, in the parish of Caherlistrane County Galway, in Ireland.

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Knockmaa, Co. Galway

It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of four large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns.[2]

G. H. Kinahan wrote of the place: Template:Quote

In Evans-Wentz's classic The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, his informant Mr John Glynn, the town clerk of Tuam, mentions that: Template:Quote

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