FOOTNOTES
[1] Camden’s Hibernia, p. 67.
[2] Journal R. S. A. I., 1876–8, p. 294.
[3] Ibid., 1887–8, p. 432.
[4] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, p. 107.
[5] Pagan Ireland, p. 308.
[6] Asiatic Researches, vol. vi., p. 502.
[7] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1888, p. 470.
[8] Pagan Ireland, p. 308.
[9] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1892, p. 68.
[10] Annual Volume Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1892.
[11] Transactions (Antiquities), Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. xxiv., p. 421.
[12] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1868, p. 91.
[13] Ibid., 1864–6, pp. 357, 497.
[14] Ibid., 1883–4, p. 222; 1887–8, p. 427.
[15] Ibid., 1879–82, p. 552.
[16] Ibid., 1874–5, p. 445.
[17] The cave is known by the name ‘Gillie’s Hole,’ and was used as a retreat, about a hundred years ago, by a pair of lovers who, in consequence of an imprudent marriage, had been discarded by their friends. Such is the local legend.
[18] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1895, p. 64.
[19] April, 1865.
[20] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1883, p. 174.
[21] This—the Royal Society of Antiquaries—collection has been transferred, with the exception of objects of a local interest, to the National Museum, Kildare-street, Dublin.
[22] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1874–5, note, p. 281.
[23] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1868–9, p. 349.
[24] Ibid., 1874–5, p. 460.
[25] Prehistoric Scotland, p. 279.
[26] Mr. G. A. Lebour, in Nature, May 9th, 1872, speaking of the character of the principal dolmens and cist-bearing mounds of Finisterre, says that ‘in most cases in that department the dolmens occupy situations in every respect similar to those in which the tumuli are found, so that meteorological, and indeed every other but human, agencies must have affected both in the same manner and degree. Notwithstanding this, the dolmens are invariably bare, and the cists are as constantly covered; there are no signs of even incipient degradation and denudation in the latter, and none of former covering in the first.’
[27] Dolmens of Ireland, p. viii.
[28] Ibid., p. 430.
[29] Dolmens of Ireland, vol. i., p. 8.
[30] Maol may be interpreted ‘servant of.’
[31] Some doubt has been thrown on the story as told in the ‘Annals’: see Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1897, p. 430.
[32] The Rev. Maxwell Close makes the dimensions 12¼ feet by 9¼ feet, and 5¾ feet thick.
[33] Proceedings Roy. Ir. Acad., 3rd Series, vol. v., No. 3.
[34] The three distinct groups of rocks on the Three-Rock Mountain, a familiar natural feature from the suburbs of Dublin, were considered by Beranger to be ‘Druidical remains.’ From a distance they appear like cairns, but they were never raised by human hands, and their interest is entirely geological.
[35] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1896, p. 93; and 1876, p. 95.
[36] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1872, p. 523.
[37] Journal Roy. Soc. Antiq., 1872, p. 526.
[38] Ecclesiastical Architecture, p. 97.
[39] See Archæologia, vol. xxv., p. 233.
[40] Schliemann’s Excavations, by Dr. C. Schuchhardt (1891), p. 147.
[41] The Mycenæan Age, by Dr. Christos Tsountas and Mr. J. Irving Manatt (1897), p. 138.
[42] See Proceedings Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. ix.
[43] Proceedings Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. xxvii. (1892–93).
[44] Rude Stone Monuments, p. 219.
[45] The MSS. only state that the Ollamh was buried at Taillten.
[46] Schliemann’s Excavations, p. 151.
[47] Egyptian Decorative Art, chap. ii.
[48] Journal of Hellenic Studies, xiv., p. 329.
[49] See Journal, 1894, 1895; also Trans. Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. xxx. pt. 1, xxxi. pt. 2.
[50] A somewhat similar example occurs in the sepulchral monument at Glenmalin, Co. Donegal. See Journal Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ir., 1890, p. 264.
[51] Rude Stone Monuments of Sligo, p. 136.
[52] Catalogue of Antiq., p. 27.
[53] See Journal, R. S. A. I., 1870, p. 579.
[54] Politics, Bk. iv., Ch. 2.
[55] Murray’s Handbook of Ireland (1902), p. 350.
[56] See Reliquary and Illustrated Archæologist, vol. i., p. 35.
[57] British Barrows, p. 19.
[58] Rambles and Studies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Dalmatia, pp. 132, 133.
[59] Ibid., p. 400.
[60] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1852–3, p. 295.
[61] Pagan Ireland, p. 108.
[62] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1876–8, p. 178.
[63] Primeval Antiquities of Denmark, p. 96.
[64] The Civilization of Sweden in Heathen Times, p. 32.
[65] Schliemann’s Excavations, by Dr. Schuchhardt, p. 86.
[66] Early Age of Greece, by W. Ridgeway, p. 495.
[67] Early Age of Greece, by W. Ridgeway, p. 495.
[68] Annals of the Four Masters, A.D. 537.
[69] Ibid.
[70] Ibid., A.D. 458.
[71] Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, O’Curry; Introduction, p. cccxl.
[72] Dr. Sullivan was of opinion that these words are used here in the sense of funeral pyre; but this is not accepted, as strictly they are applied to the whole funeral rite, especially to the reciting of dirges, and the performance of games. See Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, vol. i., cccxxiii.
[73] O’Curry, Manners and Customs, III. 176.
[74] Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil, Richard Rolt Brash, p. 13.
[75] Irish Names of Places, vol. i., p. 262.
[76] Ogam Inscribed Monuments, R. R. Brash, pp. 99–101.
[77] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1898, p. 1 (Rev. Canon Lett, M.A.).
[78] Journal R.S.A.I., 1885, p. 362.
[79] Prehistoric Scotland, p. 352.
[80] For a full account of this structure see a Paper by the Rev. William Falkiner, M.A., Proc. R.I.A., vol. v., 3rd series, p. 211.
[81] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1860, p. 222.
[82] For an interesting account of this fort by Mr. P. J. Lynch, see Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1899, p. 5.
[83] Journal R.S.A.I., 1893, p. 281; 1896, pp. 142, 363; 1897, p. 116.
[84] See Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1898, p. 325, for notes and admirable plan, by Mr. P. J. Lynch.
[85] Mr. Stewart Macalister says this should be Cathair na Mairtinech, the ‘Fort of the Martins.’
[86] Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, iii., pp. 56–72.
[87] Trans. Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. xxxi., pt. vii., p. 334.
[88] Eccles. Arch., p. 445 et seq.
[89] Donough Cairbreach O’Brien (d. 1242) built a rath, and Brian Boru repaired many of the forts of Munster in his own lifetime.
[90] Scientific Transactions, Roy. Dub. Soc, vol. i., 2nd ser., p. 200.
[91] Catalogue R.I.A., p. 254; Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1885, p. 126.
[92] For a full description of Irish copper celts, see a paper by Mr. George Coffey in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. xxxi., p. 275.
[93] For an account of the ‘Early Metallurgy of Copper, Tin, and Iron, in Europe,’ see a paper by W. Gowland in Archæologia, vol. lvi., p. 267.
[94] Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt, p. 144.
[95] Egypt under the Great Pyramid Builders, by E. Wallis Budge (1902), page 136.
[96] Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt, page 28.
[97] Catalogue, p. 384.
[98] Ancient Bronze Implements of Great Britain, p. 472.
[99] Horœ Ferales, Kemble, p. 190, et seq.
[100] See Proceedings Roy. Irish Academy, vol. iii., 3rd series, p. 486.
[101] Lake-Dwellings of Ireland, by Col. Wood-Martin, pp. 136–7.
[102] These objects are a kind of pear-shaped bell, containing a piece of metal within and admitting ‘a dull feeble sound.’ See Wilde’s Catalogue, p. 613.
[103] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1874, p. 22.
[104] For the process of riveting, see Wilde’s Catalogue, p. 632; and the Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1876–8, p. 277.
[105] See Roy. Soc. Antiq. edition, p. 32.
[106] For a summary of these, see an Article by R. R. Brash, Journal Roy. Soc. Antiq. of Ir., 1870–1, p. 509.
[107] Catalogue of the Antiquities of Gold, p. 2.
[108] See Archæologia, vol. 55, p. 391; Journal Roy. Soc. Antiq., 1902, p. 211.
[109] Lake-Dwellings, vol. i., p. 23. 2nd ed.
[110] Catalogue R.I.A., p. 235.
[111] Archæologia, vol. xxvi., p. 361.
[112] Lake-Dwellings of Europe, by Robert Munro, M.D., p. 477.
[113] Lake-Dwellings of Ireland, Col. Wood-Martin, p. 236.
[114] Prehistoric Scotland, p. 427.
[115] Journal, Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ir., 1893, p. 27; 1894, p. 315.
[116] Journal, R.S.A.I., 1897, pp. 205, 389; 1901, p. 204.
[117] Proceedings R. I. A., vol. ii., 2nd. ser.
[118] Journal, R.S.A.I, 1872, p. 10.
[119] Journal, R.S.A.I., 1897, p. 373.
[120] Lake-Dwellings of Ireland, Col. Wood-Martin, pp. 145–60. Catalogue R.I.A., pp. 229–33.
[121] Lake-Dwellings of Europe, p. 489.
[122] See Adamnan’s Life of St. Columba (Bishop Reeves), p. 286; and The Celtic Church (Dr. G. T. Stokes), p. 107.
[123] Ecclesiastical Architecture, George Petrie, p. 432.
[124] Eccles. Arch., p. 284.
[125] This is described in Petrie’s Eccles. Arch., pp. 242–6.
[126] Journal, Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland, 1856–7, p. 315.
[127] See Wright’s Louthiana, Plate 14, Book iii.
[128] See Transactions Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. xx.; also vol. xxx., p. 303.
[129] See Some Notices of the Castle of Trim by the late Rev. R. Butler.
[130] Mr. Butler, in his book on the Castle of Trim, remarks that in 1449–50 Richard, Duke of York, held his Court there; that he was a benefactor to St. Mary’s Abbey; and that the ‘Yellow Steeple,’ as the tower is popularly styled, may probably be assigned to his time.
[131] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1872–3, p. 435.