Knockmaroon

• Knockmaroon: (Irish: Cnoc na Marbhán, "the Hill of the Corpses") a townland in the northwest corner of Phoenix Park, to the west of Dublin
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• knock: (Anglo-Irish) hill

• cnoc: (Irish) hill

• Knock: a place of pilgrimage in County Mayo
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

Commentary

The OED does not record a usage for Brigadoon (as the name of a fictional Scottish Highland village which materializes for only one day every hundred years) before 1947, in which year the musical of that name by A. J. Lerner and F. Loewe premiered. Lerner's story was based on a much older German story by Friedrich Gerstacker about the mythical, German village of Germelshausen. The story was relocated to a fictional village in Scotland, likely named after the Brig o' Doon (Bridge of Doon), in Alloway, Scotland. This 'auld' bridge was made famous by Robert Burns in his long poem "Tam o' Shanter."