Benn Heather
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- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
- Beann: a point, peak; a mountain peak; a headland; a cliff; a pinnacle; a crest; a top; tip, peak or skirt of a garment; a lap; a corner; a gable; also a spire, a steeple; a mast-peak; a wing, a branch, an arm, a bracket; a prong; a goblet, a horn, figuratively a long ear; a couplet, a stanza; care, regard, respect – Patrick S. Dineen, Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla, An Irish-English Dictionary
- Ben Howth → Ben of Howth, English name for the hill on Howth Head
- Ulysses 168.01: "High on Ben Howth"
- heather → Ulysses 167.31: "earwigs in the heather scrub"
- Heathcliff: a character in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights → continuing the Brontë allusions in this paragraph
