Wakeman's handbook of Irish antiquities

by W. F. Wakeman

[67] Early Age of Greece, by W. Ridgeway, p. 495.

[68] Annals of the Four Masters, A.D. 537.

[69] Ibid.

[70] Ibid., A.D. 458.

[71] Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, O’Curry; Introduction, p. cccxl.

[72] Dr. Sullivan was of opinion that these words are used here in the sense of funeral pyre; but this is not accepted, as strictly they are applied to the whole funeral rite, especially to the reciting of dirges, and the performance of games. See Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, vol. i., cccxxiii.

[73] O’Curry, Manners and Customs, III. 176.

[74] Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil, Richard Rolt Brash, p. 13.

[75] Irish Names of Places, vol. i., p. 262.

[76] Ogam Inscribed Monuments, R. R. Brash, pp. 99–101.