Merlinburrow burrocks

• Marlborough Barracks: an army barracks in Dublin; now known as McKee Barracks
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Merlin’s Barrow → Merlin was entombed alive in a rock by Morgana La Faye → FW 007.01 rockbound

• borrow → to bite one’s ear → bite at his ear

• George Borrow: novelist, author of the gipsy novels Romany Rye and Lavengro, both of which are alluded to in FW

• burrock: a wicker basket for catching fish

• bullocks → L/R split

• burro: (Spanish) ass, donkey → the Ass