[34] Op. cit., p. 98.
[35] Dalyell, p. 550.
[36] Joyce's "Irish Names of Places," vol. i. p. 172.
[37] "Ancient and Present State of the County Kerry," p. 196.
[38] Joyce's "Irish Names of Places."
[39] "Letters from the Kingdom of Kerry, in the year 1845." Dublin, 1847.
[40] Vol. ii. p. 226. On witchcraft in Ireland see the "Annals of Ireland," translated from the original Irish of the Four Masters, by Owen Connellan, Esq. Dublin, 1846.
[41] His "Breviary of Helth" was published in 1547.
[42] This cross was made of sea sand, in the sixth century, by St. Kentigern, called also St. Mungo. A collegiate church was erected there in 1449. He healed the maniacal by the touch. See "The Legends of St. Kentigern," translated by Rev. William Stevenson, D.D., Edinburgh, 1874; and Notes and Queries, April 21, 1866.
[43] Page 976, ed. 1633. According to modern botanists, black hellebore is not, as was for long supposed the Ἐλλεβορος μελας of Hippocrates. Of several species growing in Greece, the medicinal virtues of Helleborus orientalis resemble most nearly those of the classic descriptions of H. niger. See "The British Flora Medica," by B. H. Barton, F.L.S., and T. Castle, M.D., 1877, p. 203.