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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 163
mount the Thingmote of Dublin stood until the year CHAP. n.
1685. From the drav.'ing and survey, which I have
been so fortunate as to discover, the mount is shown
to have been a conical hill about 40 feet high and
240 feet in circumference.
The drawing of which a facsimile is here given Drawing of
,, , , . , the mount or
forms part of a survey made in 1G82, and it may be Thingmote of
observed that the indented outline gives to the mount
the appearance of having had those terraces or steps
already described on some other Thingmounts. That
this mount remained so long undisturbed was partly
attributable to its position within the line of fortifica-
tion for which the tumulus was levelled, but chiefly
to the care of the municipal authorities for the health
of the citizens. Down to the year 1635 there were
numerous edicts decreeing that " the common pastures
of the city (among which Stanihurst places the
Stein 1
)"
should be reserved for the citizens to walk
and take the air by reason as the last ordinance
adds that the "city was growing very populous." 8
These ordinances preserved the ground, surrounding
the Thingmote, uninclosed until 1661.
1 Holinshed ; Chronicle, vol. vi., town Green, might
not from hence-
p. 28. forth be sett or leased to any per-
* '* An Act established at Easter son, bat that the same may be
Assembly, A.D. 1635, to be pub- wholly kept for the use of the
lickly reade every Michaelmas Cittizens and others to walk and
Assemblie Daie. Whereas the take the open aire by reason this
Commons petitioned unto this Cittie is at this present growing
Assembly praying that some course very populous." The Mayor is
might be taken in the said As- not to give way to the reading of
seinbly whereby no part or parcel any petition for the of the Greens and Commons of
leasing or dis-
posing of any of the said Greens
this Cittie, viz. : Hoggin's Green, or Commons under pain of 40
St. Stephen's Green, and Oxinan- pounds. City Records.
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