Crossword-Solution: ESKER 5 letters, 51 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Behind the terminal moraines lie wide till plains, in places studded thickly with drumlins, or ridged with an occasional esker.

All Munster asserted that it was never the intention of their common ancestors to subject the southern half of Erin to the sway of the north; that Eber and Owen More had resisted such pretensions when advanced by Eremhon and Conn of the Hundred Battles; that the _esker_ from Dublin to Galway was the true division, and that, even admitting the title of the Hy-Nial king as Ard-Righ, all the tribes south of the _esker_, whether in Leinster or Connaught, still owed tribute by ancient right to Cashel.

Five great roads, radiating from Tara, as a centre, are mentioned in our earliest record; the road _Dala_ leading to Ossory, and so on into Munster; the road _Assail_, extending western through Mullingar towards the Shannon; the road _Cullin_, extending towards Dublin and Bray; the exact route of the northern road, _Midhluachra_, is undetermined; _Slighe Mor_, the great western road, followed the course of the _esker_, or hill-range, from Tara to Galway.

Babewendigash River winds to and fro between the mountains, its course being determined to a great extent by esker ridges that follow it on either side and which are often more than one hundred feet high.

They can't insult my blessed husband now, nor murdher him, as his father's villains did our dyin' son, on the cowld Esker of Drum Dhu; nor disturb him with their barbarous torments on the bed of death--and glory be to God for that!” Many of our readers may be led to imagine that the terrors of Mary O'Regan were altogether unproportioned to anything that might be apprehended from the approach of the officers of justice, or, at least to those who came to execute the law.