“My uncle, who was a learned man, said that this custom of ‘trundling’ eggs was a survival of an old Druidical rite. It seems to me to be queer that we in the North of Ireland should still be practising that ancient ceremony when English children should have completely forgotten it, and should think of an Easter egg, not as a real thing laid by hens and related to the ancient religion of these islands, but as a piece of confectionery turned out by machinery and having no ancient significance whatever.”—Ervine, St. John, The Daily Chronicle, 4th April, 1919.
[895] Fergusson, J., Rude Stone Monuments, p. 191.
[896] The surname Honeywell found at Kingston implies either there or somewhere a Honeywell. There are several St. Euny Wells in Cornwall.
[897] It measures 36 feet x 18 feet 9 inches, see ante, p. 9.
[898] At Margate are Paradise Hill, Dane Park, Addington Street leading to Dane Hill, and Fort Paragon: at Ramsgate is also a Fort Paragon, and a four-crossed dun called Hallicondane. There used to be a Paradise near Beachy (Bougie, or Biga Head (?)): by Broadstairs or Bridestowe which contains a shrine to St. Mary to which all passing vessels used to doff their sails, is Bromstone, and a Dane Court by Fairfield, all of which are in St. Peter’s Parish. By the Sister Towers of Reculver are Eddington, Love Street, Hawthorn Corner, and Honey Hill: in Thanet, Paramour is a common surname. By Minster is Mount Pleasant and Eden Farm: by Richborough is Hoaden House and Paramore Street. To Reculver as to Broadstairs passing mariners used customarily to doff their sails:—
Great gods, whom Earth and Sea and Storms obey,
Breathe fair, and waft us smoothly o’er the main.
Fresh blows the breeze, and broader grows the bay,
And on the cliffs is seen Minerva’s fane.
We furl the sails, and shoreward row amain