Microbirg

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  • micro-: a prefix denoting small, tiny, short
  • Berg: (German) mountain → Castleknock Hill & Windmill Hill, or Castleknock Hill & Knockmaroon Hill, which represent the two feet of HCE in his guise as Finn MacCool interred in the Irish landscape with his head beneath Howth Head
  • birg (from German "bergen") save, salvage, hide