[LXXXVIII.] The houses of the ancient Irish were circular, and generally made of wood.
[LXXXIX.] "As cold as the snow of one night;" "As white as the snow of one night," are usual comparisons in Gaelic. The first night's snow seems particularly cold and white when you see it in the morning on account of the contrast with the green fields of the day before.
[XC.] Dord-Fian, or Dord-Fiansa, a sort of musical war-cry, usually performed by several persons in chorus.
[XCI.] Irla, i.e. an earl, a chief.
[XCII.] A satirical allusion to Conan's well-known cowardice.
[XCIII.] Beltane, the first of May; Samin, the first of November.
[XCIV.] Beta, a public house of hospitality.
[XCV.] Offaly, now the name of two baronies in the county Kildare.
Fera-call, or Fircal, an ancient territory in the present King's County.
Brosna, a small river rising in the Slieve Bloma, or Slieve Bloom mountains, which flows by Birr, and falls into the Shannon near Banagher; usually called the Little Brosna, to distinguish it from the Great Brosna, which flows through King's County into the Shannon.