Keadeen Mountain
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Naming
According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, "Keadeen" is also the name of a townland in the nearby parish of Kilranelagh.[1] In Irish the peak was sometimes called Script error: No such module "Lang". in full, which was a name derived from the native group who gave their name to the nearby Glen of Imaal.[1]
Prehistory
The hilltop is crowned by a robbed-out cairn of unknown date.[6] Just below the cairn a cursus monument of about 300 m length and 40 m width stretches down the western slope of the mountain. Its limiting banks and ditches are still visible in the landscape as roughly parallel 0.4 m high ridges and 0.3 m deep furrows respectively. According to its investigators the cursus is oriented towards the sun rise on summer solstice: standing at the centre of the cursus the sun rises behind the summit of Keadeen mountain. The cursus is tentatively dated to the Middle Neolithic (ca. 3500 to 3000 BC).
These monuments are embedded in a rich prehistoric landscape with prehistoric hillforts and dozens of cairns on top of Cloghnagaune, Spinans Hill and Baltinglass Hill to the west as well as several barrows there and in the valleys below. In fact the landscape between the valley of River Slaney and Keadeen Mountain can be compared to Brú na Bóinne.
History
Dwyer–McAllister Cottage is at the northern base of Keadeen at Derrynamuck, where Michael Dwyer, the 1798 rebellion United Irishmen leader, escaped from the British soldier's siege on Sam McAllister cottage in December 1799 up the slopes of the mountain.
Bibliography
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See also
- Wicklow Way
- Wicklow Mountains
- Lists of mountains in Ireland
- List of mountains of the British Isles by height
- List of Marilyns in the British Isles
- List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland
References
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External links
- MountainViews: The Irish Mountain Website, Keadeen Mountain
- MountainViews: Irish Online Mountain Database
- The Database of British and Irish Hills , the largest database of British Isles mountains ("DoBIH")
- Hill Bagging UK & Ireland, the searchable interface for the DoBIH
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