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Cermand Cestach

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Cermand Cestach was the name of a gold-covered pagan idol which stood in Clogher Cathedral, County Tyrone, Ireland until medieval times. [1]

29 relations: Armagh, Óengus of Tallaght, Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa, Cú Chulainn, Clogher, Clones, County Monaghan, Conchobar mac Nessa, Corkaree, County Tyrone, Crom Cruach, Cult image, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Gloss (annotation), Hill of Tara, Ireland, Irish Naturalists' Journal, Isle of Man, John Toland, Leinster, Mac Cairthinn of Clogher, Omphalos of Delphi, Ptolemy, Pythia, Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher, Saint Patrick, Tigernach of Clones, Ulster, Ulster Cycle, William Hamilton Drummond.

Armagh

Armagh is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish.

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Óengus of Tallaght

Óengus mac Óengobann, better known as Saint Óengus of Tallaght or Óengus the Culdee, was an Irish bishop, reformer and writer, who flourished in the first quarter of the 9th century and is held to be the author of the Félire Óengusso ("Martyrology of Óengus") and possibly the Martyrology of Tallaght.

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Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa

Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (February 1439 – March 1498) was an Irish historian.

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Cú Chulainn

Cú Chulainn, also spelled Cú Chulaind or Cúchulainn (Irish for "Culann's Hound") and sometimes known in English as Cuhullin, is an Irish mythological hero who appears in the stories of the Ulster Cycle, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore.

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Clogher

Clogher is a village and civil parish in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

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Clones, County Monaghan

Clones is a small town in western County Monaghan, Ireland.

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Conchobar mac Nessa

Conchobar mac Nessa (son of Ness) was the king of Ulster in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Corkaree

Corkaree is a barony in north County Westmeath, in the Republic of Ireland.

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County Tyrone

County Tyrone is one of the six historic counties of Northern Ireland.

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Crom Cruach

Crom Cruach (Old Irish Cromm Crúaich /ˈkɾˠɔmˠ ˈkɾˠuəç/) was a god of pre-Christian Ireland.

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Cult image

In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents.

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Fionn mac Cumhaill

Fionn mac Cumhaill (Old and Find or Finn mac Cumail or Umaill, sometimes transcribed in English as MacCool or MacCoul) was a mythical hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, occurring also in the mythologies of Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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Gloss (annotation)

A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal one or an interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text.

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Hill of Tara

The Hill of Tara (Teamhair or Teamhair na Rí), located near the River Boyne, is an archaeological complex that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Ireland.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Irish Naturalists' Journal

The Irish Naturalists' Journal is a scientific journal covering all aspects of natural history.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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John Toland

John Toland (30 November 1670 – 11 March 1722) was an Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, which are early expressions of the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment.

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Leinster

Leinster (— Laighin / Cúige Laighean — /) is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland.

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Mac Cairthinn of Clogher

Saint Mac Cairthinn, also Macartan, McCartan (died 506), is recognized as the first presiding Bishop of Clogher from 454 to his death.

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Omphalos of Delphi

The Omphalos of Delphi is an ancient marble monument that was found at the archaeological site of Delphi, Greece.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

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Pythia

The Pythia (Πῡθίᾱ) was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi who also served as the oracle, commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher (Deoise Chlochair) was formed in 1111 at the Synod of Rathbreasail as the see for the Kingdom of Uí Chremthainn.

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Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick (Patricius; Pádraig; Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.

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Tigernach of Clones

Tigernach mac Coirpri (d. 549) was an early Irish saint, patron saint of Clones (Co. Monaghan) in the province of Ulster.

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Ulster

Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr or Ulster) is a province in the north of the island of Ireland.

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Ulster Cycle

The Ulster Cycle (an Rúraíocht), formerly known as the Red Branch Cycle, one of the four great cycles of Irish mythology, is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the traditional heroes of the Ulaid in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leinster, particularly counties Armagh, Down and Louth, and taking place around or before the 1st century AD.

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William Hamilton Drummond

William Hamilton Drummond, D.D. (1778–1865) was an Irish poet and controversialist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cermand_Cestach

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