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Dublin place-name cluster. Click cluster marker for locality markers. Click locality marker for link to page. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-03. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near Dublin.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-11. Revised by … Introduction This page lists Robin Hood-related place-names in British areas outside England as well as territories formerly British or English. A list of English counties and shires, including separate entries for London and the three historic ridings of Yorkshire, is found on the place-names main page. Ireland Place-name clusters Jersey Pale of Calais From 1347 to 1558, Calais was an English territory known as the Pale of Calais. Scotland Wales

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Lancashire as follows: Lancashire is a large and heavily populated county, in population second only to Middlesex. Lancashire runs up the English west coast from the Mersey north to Morecambe Bay with a further part north of the sands at Furness. Lancashire was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, its cotton mills supplying the Empire and the World. Although competition and changed technology have swept many of the great mills away nevertheless Lancashire is still home to industrial might, and the great towns and cities which grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries still thrive. Away from the industrial and urban areas, Lancashire contains scenery of much beauty and jarring contrasts. The Furness district in the north sits on the sea at Barrow in Furness, a shipyard and industrial town. Behind Barrow though is a land of lakeland fells, forested and …

Father Mathew Bridge, formerly known as Dublin Bridge, whence Little John shot an arrow that landed on a hillock on Oxmantown Green, according to Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-02. Revised by … According to the first edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), Little John shot an arrow, standing on Father Mathew Bridge, then known as Dublin Bridge. The arrow landed on a hillock on Oxmantown Green, which hillock was accordingly named Little John's Shot The chronicle has Little John sailing to Ireland and staying at Dublin for a few days. The locals very much wanted to see an example of his prowess with the longbow. He shot his arrow an unknown but considerable distance. However, this feat made his presence known to the authorities, and Little John had to leave Ireland for Scotland (see 1577 Allusion below). The Dublin Bridge on which he was believed to have stood when shooting his arrow was a stone bridge built by the Dominicans in 1428. With …

Dublin, which Little John visited for a few days according to Holinshed's Chronicles (1577). By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-02. Revised by … According to the first edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), Little John, standing on Father Mathew Bridge, then known as Dublin Bridge (see 1577 Allusion below) shot an arrow that landed on a hillock that was henceforth named Little John's Shot. Or are we to think of the arrow as creating the hillock? In the chronicle, Little John sails to Ireland and stays at Dublin for a few days. The locals desire to see an example of his prowess as a longbowman. He shoots his arrow an unknown but considerable distance. However, this impressive shot makes his presence known to the authorities, and he is forced to flee from Ireland, opting to go to Scotland (see 1577 Allusion below). See page on Little John's Shot (Dublin) on the locality where the arrow was said to have landed, and Father Mathew Bridge (Dublin) for the bridge on which he …

Hathersage Church with Little John's Grave By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-01. Revised by … Allusion Source notes IRHB's brackets. Peak Scenery was first published 1818 to 1823, in four parts. Part III, which includes the above passage, was published in 1822. The passage recurs unchanged in the 1824 edition, where this footnote is appended: Rhodes, Ebenezer 1824a, p. 180 n. Hathersage is somewhat tenacious with respect to this circumstance in its local history, and insists upon the validity of its claim to the burial place of Little John. The traditional authority on which this claim rests is more than doubtful. Mr. J. A. Walker, in is ingenious “Memoir on the Armour and Weapons of the Irish,” annexed to his “Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish,” has given some curious particulars relative to the skill of Little John in archery, and he informs us that he terminated his life on the gallows, and that he was “executed for a robbery on …

The pointer indicates an area said to be the last remnant of Oxmantown Green, on which there once was a hillock named Little John's Shot. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-02. Revised by … Little John's Shot was a hillock on Oxmantown Green, from which, according to a tale or tradition reported in the first edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), Little John shot an arrow, standing on Father Mathew Bridge, then known as Dublin Bridge (see 1577 Allusion below). The chronicle reports that Little John went to Ireland after Robin Hood's death and stayed in Dublin for a few days. Eager for a demonstration of the visitor's prowess with the longbow, the Dubliners "requested hym hartily to trie how far he could shoote at randone [sic]". Little John obliged, the arrow landing at "that mole hill, leauyng behynde him a monument, rather by his posteritie to be woondered, then possibly by any man liuyng to be counterscored". Unfortunately this feat led to the authorities becoming …