Adam and Eve,83.Adze,136.Aenach, a fair,chap. xxi.Aghaboe, in Queen’s County,49.Agriculture,35,chap. xvii.Agricultural implements,130.Aidan, St.,52,53.Ailech, palace in Donegal,7.Ailell Inbanna, king of Connaught,166.Aillenn, palace of,8.Ainnle, son of Usna,77.Airmeda, daughter of Dianket,98,99.Alban, Scotland,11,165.Albinus, and Clement,58,59,60.Ale,115.Alloys,132.Alum,140.American Universities,44,45.Anglo-Normans,10,15,64.Anglo-Saxons,52.Angus Mac-an-oge,28.Animals belonging to farm,130.Annals, the Irish,chap. ix.Annals of the Four Masters,73.Antrim,12.Anvil, the smith’s,134.Apprenticeship,138.Architects,131.Ardagh Chalice,97.Ardan, son of Usna,77.Ardbraccan in Meath,168.Ard-ri, the over-king of Ireland,1.Aristocracy, marks of,121.Armagh,42.Army doctors,99,100.Art,chap. xii.Art the Solitary, king of Ireland,23.Artificers: seeHandicraftsandArt.Assemblies, Sports, and Pastimes,chap. xxi.Assyrian beards,123.Augustine, St.,52.Augurs,26.Bagpipes,86.Baking,117.Bangor, Co. Down,42,43,49.Banqueting Hall at Tara,106,111,112,150.Barbers,123.Barm,117.Baths and bathing,122,124.Beard,123.Beauty of Nature and Art admired,161 to 164.Bede, the Venerable,11,50,69,72.Bees,117.Beeswax,118.Beetagh, a public hosteller,119.Bell of the Will, the,39.Bellows, described,134.Bells,38,39,88.Ben-Edar, now the Hill of Howth, near Dublin,165.Bir, a spit,115.Birds and Bird-net Laws,155.Bird-singing,162,163.Black in dyeing,140.Blacksmith,39,113,132,133,134.Blanid, Queen,163.Blower, a sort of bellows,134.Blue, in dyeing,141.Boats,110,145,146,147.Bobbio in Italy,49.Book of Kells,93,94,95,122,140.Book of Lecan,66.Book of Lecan, Yellow,65.Book of Leinster,65.Book of Mac Durnan,140.Book of the Dun Cow,65,74.Books and Literature,chap. viii.Borrowing,159.Boundaries of territories,129.Bracelets,128.Brasiers and their work,97,98,128,132,133.Brass,132.Brathlang, a covering for a deer-trap,155.Bread,117.Brehon, a judge,17.Brehon Laws, the,chap. iii.,148.Brendan the Navigator, St.,43.Brewing,117.Brewy, a public hospitaller,116,119.Bridges,144.Bridles,145.Brigit, St.,36.Brigit, the goddesses so named,28.Britain,50,52.Britannia,14.Britons,141,145.Bronze,116,132,133,141.Brooch,126,128.Brugh, now Newgrange on the Boyne,28.Bruree, palace of,8.Builders,131,132.Bunnĕ-do-at, a kind of gold ornament,128.Butter,117.Buttons,126,128.Caher in Tipperary,8.Caird, a brasier or silversmith,132,133.Caldron,116.Candles,118.Canon Law, old Irish,167.Cape for shoulders,125,141.Car in common use,144.Carding wool,139.Carlingford peninsula,78.Carntierna near Fermoy,28.Carpenters,132.Carrigcleena near Mallow,28.Carthage,56.Carving and carvers,135.Cashel, Rock of,8.Castletown Fort, near Dundalk,77.Celts (people),114.Champion, a king’s,4.Charcoal,118.Chariot,144.Charioteer,113,144,145.Charlemagne,58,59,60.Cheese,117.Chess and chess-playing,156.Christian Ireland,chap. v.Churches,36,37,136,137.Churn,117.Cleena the fairy queen,28.Clement and Albinus,58,59,60.Cloak,125,126.Clonard in Meath,35,42,43.Clonfert in Galway,43(twice).Clonmacnoise in King’s County,42.Clontarf, Battle of,69 to 72.Clothes and clothing industries,chap. xix.Clowns,153,156.Coats,125,126.Cogwheels,134.Cóir Anmann, the,73.Colman, abbot of Lindisfarne,53.Colours of dress,124,125,126,152: seeDyeing.Columba, St.: seeColumkille.Columbanus, St.,49.Columkille, St.,29,52.Combs and combing,122,124.Comgall, St.,43.Commerce,147.Commons (land),131.Compasses (for circles),136.Conall Kernagh,77,122.Conari, king of Ireland,156,157.Concobar or Conor mac Nessa,7,76,78,158.Congal, Prince,125.Conn the Hundred Fighter, king of Ireland,30.Connla of the Golden Hair, Prince,30,31,32.Convents,36.Cooks and cooking,115,116,154.Cooley or Quelnĕ,78.Coopers,136.Copper,130,131,132.Copyists,63.Cormac Mac Art, king of Ireland,23,24,77,111.Cormac’s Glossary, written by archbishop Cormac Mac Cullenan, king of Munster, diedA.D.807,16.Corn,130.Coursing and coursing hounds,155.Courts of justice,17,18.Cows,130.Cow’s teat as feeding-bottle,168.Craebh-ciuil,88.Craglea near Killaloe,28.Crannoge, a lake-dwelling,110.Creeveroe at Emain,77.Crescents for the neck,96,128.Criffan the Great, king of Ireland,14.Crimson in dyeing,140,141.Crochet-work,139.Croghan, palace of,8,78,137,149,150.Crops,130.Cross of Cong, the,97.Crossans, gleemen,157.Cuculainn,77,78.Cúil-Conari in Connaught,166.Curath-mir, the hero’s morsel,113.Curds,117.Curragh, a wicker-boat, a coracle,10,143,145,146, 147.Curragh of Kildare,153.Cycles of Irish Tales,76,77,78.Danes, the,37,57,64,69,72.Dark Ages,51.Decies in Waterford,15.Dedannans, the colony preceding the Milesians. The Irish gods and fairies were mostly Dedannans;76: seechap. iv.Deece baronies near Tara,15.Deirdre,121.Dermot O’Dyna,79.Derry,43,165.Desii, the tribe of,15.Dianket, the Irish god of medicine,98,99.Dinner,111,115.Dinnree in Carlow,8.Dinnsenchus, the,73.Diseases,104.Distaff and spindle,139.Divination,25.Divinity taught in schools,48.Domnall, king of Ireland,125,158.Donall, Prince,166.Donegal,52.Donegal, Monastery of,73.Donn, the fairy king,28.Dress,chap. xvi.Drink,115.Druids,24,25,26,40.Drum Ketta,158. (See this in Index of History of Ireland.)Drunkenness,115.Dundalgan, Dundalk,77.Dunlavin in Wicklow,8.Dunstan, St.,57.Durrow in King’s County,43.Dyeing,139,140,141.Dyeing the face, hair, etc.,121,122,123.Dyfed in Wales,15.Ecclesiastical Schools,chap. vi.Eclipses,68,69.Education,75,81,82.Eevin or Eevil the fairy queen,28.Egypt,50,55.Election of kings,2.Elements, worship of,29.Emain or Emania,7,76,137,149,150.Embroidery,142,153.Endymion, poem of,161.England,52,53,57,62.Engravers,135.Erc, Concobar’s grandson,158.Eric of Auxerre,53.Ethicus of Istria,61.Eyebrows dyed black,121.Eyelids, dyed black,54,121.Fairies,27 to 32,109.Fairs,chap. xxi.Farm animals,130.Farm fences,129.Farming implements,130.Faroe Islands,55.Feis, a festival, a great meeting of delegates,149.Fena of Erin, the,77,79.Fences,129.Fergil the Geometer,49.Fergus, Angus, and Lorne,12.Fergus, Prince,166.Fergus Mac Roy,77.Fer-leginn, the principal of a college,46.Ferryboats,110,144.Fiacha Mullehan, king of Ireland,163.Finan, abbot of Lindisfarne,53.Finger-nails,121.Finn mac Coole, or Finn, son of Cumal,77,79.Finnen or Finnian, St.,35.Fish and Fishing,155.Fishing weirs,155.Flageolets,86.Flax,139,140.Fleshfork,117.Flint and steel,118.Food,chap. xv.Fools (for amusement),156.Fords,144.Foreign conquests,chap. ii.Foreign merchants,147,153.Foreign missions,chap. vii.Forge, a blacksmith’s, tools in,134.Forks and knives,114.Forts, or lisses, or raths,16,109.Fortune-tellers,26.Founders (in metals),118,132,133.Four Masters, the,73.France,21,50,57,58,120.Free circuit of kings,5.Frieze,125.Frith of Clyde,11.Frock-coat,125.Fuel,118,134.Fulling cloth,138,139.Furnace,134.Furs of animals,124.Game, different kinds of,154,155.Ganntree, mirth-music,88.Garters,127.Gauls, the,9,109,113,145.Germany,50,57,120.Gildas, the British writer,147.Giraldus Cambrensis,84.Girdle,118,125,126,127.Glasheen, the woad-plant,22,23,141.Glastonbury,57.Gleemen,157.Gloves,127.Goad for horses,145.Goaling or hurling,155.Gobha, a smith,132,