Footnote 261:[(return)]

RC xii. 89.

Footnote 262:[(return)]

LL lla.

Footnote 263:[(return)]

RC xii. 93.

Footnote 264:[(return)]

Connac, 56, and Cóir Anmann (IT iii. 357) divide the name as día-na-cecht and explain it as "god of the powers."

Footnote 265:[(return)]

RC xii. 67. For similar stories of plants springing from graves, see my Childhood of Fiction, 115.

Footnote 266:[(return)]

RC xii, 89, 95.

Footnote 267:[(return)]

RC vi. 369; Cormac, 23.

Footnote 268:[(return)]

Cormac, 47, 144; IT iii. 355, 357.

Footnote 269:[(return)]

IT iii. 355; D'Arbois, i. 202.

Footnote 270:[(return)]

LL 246a.