FOOTNOTES
[1] Prehistoric Times, Sir John Lubbock, 2nd ed., p. 214.
[2] Some Irish scholars give a different interpretation.
[3] Hull, in his Physical Geology of Ireland, cites the “Four Masters” as alluding to man and the Megaceros being contemporaneous, p. 270.
[4] Sir John Lubbock, writing of extinct mammalia, states that remains of the Megaceros Hibernicus never occur in the ‘Kjökken-moddings,’ lake habitations, or sepulchral remains; nor are there any traditions in Western Europe which can be regarded as indicating even obscurely a memory of this gigantic mammal.—Prehistoric Times, 2nd ed., 1869, p. 291.
[5] Proceedings, R. I. A., vol. viii., p. 424.
[6] Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, vol. v. p. 170. New Series.
[7] “As far as we can judge from the present evidence, the first appearance of the reindeer in Europe coincided with that of the mammoth, and took place at a later period than that of the cave bear or Irish elk.”—Sir John Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, 2nd ed., 1869, p. 293.
[8] Geology of Ireland: G. H. Kinahan, p. 262.
[9] Hippocrates, vol. i., p. 209. De Aeribus, xxxvii.