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- howe: a burial mound; a type of barrow, sometimes referred to as a cairn circle, cairn ring, howe, kerb cairn, tump, rotunda grave or tumulus
- Howe: the site of the Norse Thingmote in Dublin; named from the Old Norse haugar ("burial mounds") of Dublin’s Scandinavian kings, who are thought to be buried to the southwest of the thingmót
