tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post953702897448757712..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: The March of O'Sullivan Beare/The Irish BrigadeTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-59045856247176295022013-03-16T19:54:00.949-04:002013-03-16T19:54:00.949-04:00O'Flynn's Mountain is the Sliabh Ui Floinn...O'Flynn's Mountain is the Sliabh Ui Floinn. It is a smallish hill when you first see it from the street of Ballinlough (Baille na locha Ua Fhloinn) and no trace of the castle remains today. It is just north and east of the village itself and at its base if O'Flynn's Lake (Lough Ua Fhloinn). There is a road that wends to the top, where some houses have recently been built, snd from the top you realize why the castle was built there: You can see for miles and miles. No army can approach unobserved. And the lake wards a frontal assault. TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-62406893105139013022013-03-16T19:46:51.003-04:002013-03-16T19:46:51.003-04:00Is O'Flynn's Mountain the same as Sliabh U...Is O'Flynn's Mountain the same as Sliabh Ui Floinn in <a href="http://www.cranfordpub.com/langan/brown_thorned_bush.htm" rel="nofollow">"An Draighnean Donn" (The Blackthorn Tree)</a>? <br /><br />Because that young man's side in the song is described as white like the snow over that mountain, so it would kinda be nice to know what mountain to look at. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com