Note 89 — Chapter III · THE GROWTH OF THE SEAPORT TOWNS.

It is called Tengmonth and Teggemuta in medieval documents (Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, I., 15, 461, 463, 465) and from it the surrounding parish of St. Andrew—“Parochia Sancti Andreae de Thengmote”—took its name. In 1647 it is referred to as “the fortified hill near the College,” but about thirty years later it was levelled to the ground and the earth was used for building Nassau Street (J. T. Gilbert: History of Dublin, II, p. 258).