This e-text has been produced from the 1975 Dover edition of Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland (ISBN 0-486-22430-9), which is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in Boston by Little, Brown and Company in 1890 under the title Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland. The 1975 Dover edition did not contain the original introduction, frontispiece and dedication.
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice.
Archaic inconsistent spelling and all other anomalies such as if and when used interchangeably are as in the original.