[467] Manners and Customs, Vol. ii., page 138.

[468] The Annals of Lough Cé, A.D. 1024.

[469] Annals of Ulster and Four Masters.

[470] Chapter II., page 21.

[471] Brehon Laws, Vol. iii., p. 89.

[472] Grammatica, p. xxxiv.

[473] “Lingua formis suis, et regulis certis, circumscripta.”

[474] See O’Curry’s Lectures—Manners and Customs—Vol. ii., p. 154.

[475] Lectures, Vol. i., p. 53.

[476] Lectures—Manners and Customs—Vol. ii., page 157.