| [PART I.] |
| ORIGIN, CONSTRUCTION, AND CIVILIZATION OF THE ANCIENTLACUSTRINE HABITATIONS OF IRELAND, AS ILLUSTRATEDBY THEIR REMAINS AND THE ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN ORAROUND THEM. |
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| [Introductory,] | 1-23 |
| Wooded nature of the country. Wild animals. Climatic changes. Lakes. Lake-dwellings of all countries. |
| [Lake-dwellings of Ireland,] | 23-55 |
| Crannog, derivation of the word; a common townland name. Submarinecrannog. Favourite sites for crannogs; mode of construction.Stone lake-dwellings. Theory of crannogs being only temporaryrefuges untenable. Palisades. Dwellings. Gangways to crannogs.Canoes. Paddles. Anchors. Curach. Ingenuity of lake-dwellers.Clothing, &c. | |
| [Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages,] | 55-73 |
| Weapons and tools. Armour. Stone moulds. | |
| [Food and Vegetable Remains,] | 73-81 |
| Hammer-stones. Mammalia. Butter. Yokes. Piscatory implements. | |
| [Household Economy, &c.,] | 81-105 |
| Grain-rubbers. Querns. Human remains. Fireplaces on the shore.Pottery. Wooden vessels. Drinking cups. Wooden mallets.“Whorls.” Colouring-matter. Spinning. | |
| [Articles of the Toilet or of Personal Adornment,] | 105-125 |
| Pins of iron, bronze, bone, and wood, &c. Iron shears and knives.Combs of bone and wood. Bronze tweezers. Stone and bronzeornaments: brooches, penannular rings, circlets, &c. Touchstones.Crucibles. Ornaments of gold and silver. Rings of stone, jet, andglass. Beads of stone, bone, jet, lead, earthenware, wood, and glass. | |
| [Music,] | 125-128 |
| Harps and harp pins, trumpets, &c. | |
| [Amusements,] | 128-132 |
| Chess a game of great antiquity in Ireland—anecdotes of; game-board.Counters or discs of bone, perforated and unperforated.Stone chessman. | |
| [Inscriptions,] | 132-135 |
| Ogham, inscriptions in.—Anecdotes of. | |
| [Money,] | 135-136 |
| Coins found in crannogs.—Anecdotes of. | |
| [Horse Furniture,] | 136-138 |
| Saddle, bronze cheek-pieces, iron bits, and enamelled plates. | |
| [Miscellaneous Articles,] | 138-145 |
| Decorated bones and plates of bone, bone spoon, spatula-shaped bone,miscellaneous articles found in the crannogs of Randalstown, LoughGuile, Ballykinler, and Cloonfinlough. Bronze and iron objectsfrom Lagore. Iron fishing implements. | |
| [Historical Notices of Crannogs,] | 145-160 |
| Extracts from State documents and the Irish Annals, tracing theirexistence from the seventeenth century back to prehistoric times. | |
| [PART II.] |
| DESCRIPTION AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ALLKNOWN LACUSTRINE SITES IN IRELAND, WITH AN ACCOUNTOF THE ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN OR AROUND THEM. |
| [Province of Ulster,] | 163-203 |
| [Province of Leinster,] | 204-211 |
| [Province of Munster,] | 212-220 |
| [Province of Connaught,] | 221-249 |
| [INDEX,] | 251-268 |