Since the time of the Túatha Dé Danann, Druim Tairléime was the site of a ‘talking stone’ (lía labar) from which a demon (demun) used to give answers (fregartha). Everyone who passed by it used to dismount and worship him, just as the demon told them to do.
This was the origin of a custom in unspecified later times: that everyone approaching the hill dismounted, as if put under a geis. Hence the name (‘The Hill of Alighting/Dismounting’).
One of the later additions to the Dinnshenchas Érenn (C). E. J. Gwynn, The metrical dindsenchas, vol. 4 (1924): 454, identifies Druim Tairléime as the place of that name, otherwise Druim/Cnoc Tuirléime, near Rosnaree (Co. Meath), rather than its namesake in Westmeath (now Drumhurlin): this is suggested, according to Gwynn, by the geographic location of the preceding item (Lind Féic) in RIA MS D ii 2.
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Túatha Dé DanannTúatha Dé (Danann)
Tuatha Dé Danann;Túatha Dé
A common Irish designation for a group of supernatural or magical figures in Irish history, broadly equivalent to the áes síde. In the pseudo-historical tradition represented by Lebor gabála Érenn and other texts, they are presented and arguably, to some extent euhemerised as the pre-Christian people that conquered Ireland from the Fir Bolg and were later overcome by the sons of Míl (the Gaels).
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Tuatha Dé Danann;Túatha Dé
A common Irish designation for a group of supernatural or magical figures in Irish history, broadly equivalent to the áes síde. In the pseudo-historical tradition represented by Lebor gabála Érenn and other texts, they are presented and arguably, to some extent euhemerised as the pre-Christian people that conquered Ireland from the Fir Bolg and were later overcome by the sons of Míl (the Gaels).
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