Plé:Thingmote

Eolas breise Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable Edited by Sean McMahon and Jo O'Donoghue Thingmote or thingmount. A venue for public meetings, sporting tournaments and passing laws in Dublin, taking its name from the Old Norse words for people's assembly (thing) and mound (mote). Until the end of the 17th century, a Norse thingmote survived in the centre of Dublin, bounded by College Green, Suffolk Street and Church Lane, in the area known as Hoggen Green. The conical mound was 12 m (40 ft) high and 73 m (240 ft) in circumference. At Christmas 1172, Henry II held a feast for Gaelic chieftains on the thingmote, in an attempt to win their approval for the arrival of the Anglo-Normans. Sir William Davis, city recorder and chief justice, had the thingmote removed in order to develop property on the site in the late 17th century.