133,134.Gods, the pagan Irish,27 to 30.Goibniu, the Irish smith-god,134.Gold-plate ornament,128.Goldsmiths and their work,97,98,128,132.Goll-tree, sorrow music,88.Gorgets,96,128.Gospels,93,94.Great Britain,50,52,57.Greece,51,151.Greek language,48.Greeks, the,81,113,114,122,139,144,152.Greenan, a summer-house, the women’s apartment,108.Greenan Ely,7.Greyhounds,155.Griffith ap Conan, king of Wales,84.Grindstone,136.Guests,4.Hair,122,123,127.Handbag for ladies,127,142.Handicrafts,chap. xviii.Harp, the, and harpers,83,85,86.Hat,127.Haughton, the Rev. Dr.,70,71.Head covering,127.Heads of pigs and oxen, for smiths,113.Heaven, the pagan Irish,30,31,32.Heptarchy, the,52.Hermits,36.Hero’s morsel,113.Historical and Romantic Tales,41,chap. x.Holyhead,16.Holy wells,38.Honey,116,117,118.Hood,125,127.Horns (blowing),87.Horses, and horsemanship,130,145,153.Horse-rod,145.Hospitality,119,120.Hospitals,104,105.Hostels, free,119,120.House, the,chap. xiv.Household of king,3,4,5.House-steward,3.Hunting,154.Hurling or goaling,155.I-Brassil, the pagan Irish heaven,30.Iceland,55.Idols, the Irish,27,29.Inauguration of kings,2.Insanity,25.Interest on loans,159.Intoxicating drink,115.Iona,52.Irishmen’s cottages in Wales,16.Iron,130,131.Island of Saints and Scholars, the,chap. vi.,51.Isle of Man,12,13.Isthmian games of Greece,151.Italy,50,57,60.Jesters,156.John Macananty, the fairy king,28.John Scotus Erigena,49.Joints for special persons,113.Joseph’s coat of many colours,125.Josina, king of Scotland,99.Jugglers,153,156,157.Julius Cæsar,9,146.Keats the poet,161.Keens or laments,89.Kehern,100.Keltar of the Battles,77.Kent,52.Kildare,36,42,95.Kilmallock Abbey,47, note.Kilt,126.Kincora, palace of,8.Kings,chap. i.Kiss on cheek as salutation,158.Kitchen garden,110.Kitchen, a relish or condiment,117.Kitchen utensils,116.Knives and forks,114.Knockaulin fort,8.Knockfierna in Limerick,28.Laeghaire, king of Ireland,19,26.Laery the Victorious,77.Lambrat, a napkin,114.Lathes,136.Latin,48.Law books,19,20.Law to be obeyed by kings,6.Lay schools,40,41,42,43.Lead,131.Learning,chap. vi.Leather and leather-work,142,143.Leaven,117.Leggings,126.Letters of English alphabet,62.Lichen for dyeing,141.Liffey, the river,72.Light,118.Linen,124,139.Lis or Liss, a circular fort,16,109.Lismore in Waterford,42.Locomotion,chap. xx.Louth, Co. of,78.Luncheon,111.Mac Con, king of Ireland,22,23.Madness,25.Maive, queen of Connaught,78.Man, Isle of,12,13.Mannanan Mac Lir, the Irish sea-god,27,28.Mantle,125.Manure,130.Manuscripts,63.Manx language,13.Markets in fairs,153.Marriages and Marriage Hollow at Tailltenn,151.Marshal, the,112.Masons,132.Mead or metheglin,115,118.Meals,111.Medical books,101,102.Medicinal herbs,98,99,100,104.Medicine and medical doctors,chap. xiii.Metal-work and metal-workers,95,132,134. SeeBrasiers, andGoldsmiths.Meyer, Dr. Kuno,80.Midac, son of Dianket,98.Migrations of Irish to Scotland,11,12,72.Migrations of Irish to Wales,13.Milesian colony,76.Milk,115,117.Milking,131.Milking-songs,89.Mills,117,130.Mine on a farm,130.Mines and mining,131.Mirth-music,88.Missionaries,chap. vii.,120,121.Monasterboice near Drogheda,43.Monasteries,34,35,36,120.Monastic schools,40 to 51.Monks,34.Montalembert,55.Moore, Thomas,90.Mortar,136.Moulds for metal-casting,133.Moy Mell, the pagan Irish heaven,30.Munster,11,140.Music,chap. xi.,115,152.Musical Branch,88.Mythological period of Irish Tales,76.Naas in Kildare,8.Nails (of fingers),121.Naisi, son of Usna,77.Names of Places,165,166.Napkins,114.Nature closely observed,162.Necklaces,128.Necklets,96.Needle and needlework,141,142.Niall of the Nine Hostages,14,15.Nobles,2.Norsemen,12.Northumberland, Northumbria, and Northumbrians,52,53.Nuns,36.O’Cassidys, the,101.O’Clerys, the,73.O’Curry, Professor Eugene,20.O’Donovan, Dr. John,20,73.Ogham writing,61,62.O’Hickeys, the,101.Old age and destitution, provision for,160.O’Lees, the,101.Ollam Fodla, king of Ireland,149.Ollave, a doctor of any profession,3,112,113,132,149.O’Loghlin, Donall, king of Ireland,39.Olympian games of Greece,151.O’Mulconry, Ferfesa,73.Orkney Islands,55.Ornaments, personal,128.Oscar, son of Ossian,79.O’Shiels, the,101.Ossian, son of Finn,79.Oswald, king of Northumbria,53.Outdoor relief,160.Oxen,130.Pagan Ireland,chap. iv.Pagan schools,40.Painters,135.Painting or dyeing the face,121,122.Palaces,6,7,8.Paris,49,59.Pasturage and tillage,chap. xvii.Patrick, St.,15,19,26,29,33,35,36,38,39,40,41,61,96.Pavia in Italy,60.Peat,118.Penal Laws,85.Penwork,92.Periods or cycles of Irish Tales,76,77,78.Picts and Scots,10,13,14.Pigs,130.Pillar-stones as boundaries,129.Pillar-stones as idols,29.Pins,126.Place-names,165,166.Planes (carpentry),136.Pledging for loan,159.Plough whistles,90.Poets and poetry,41,81,82.Pond for cattle,130.Poor-laws,160,161.Poor scholars,44,45.Pope, the,56.Porridge,117.Potters wheel,136.Printing,60.Professions,3,41,101.Provinces, the five,1.Purple in dyeing,141.Quelnĕ or Cooley,78.Querns,117.Races,153.Ramparts as boundaries,129.Rath or lis, a circular fort,16,109.Razors,123.Recitation of stories and poems,81,152.Red in dyeing,140.Red Branch Knights,7,76 to 79,113.Relieving officer,161.Rélta na bh-filedh, the meeting-house for the ollaves at Tara,150.Residences of kings,6,7,8.Retinue of kings,3,4.Revenue of kings,5.Rhapsodists of Greece,152.Rings,128.Rivers as boundaries,129.Road through or by farm,130.Roads,143,144.Roads as boundaries between territories,129.Rock of Cashel,8.Roman classical writers,10,11.Roman walls between England and Scotland,11.Romans,114,115,122,144,145.Rome,51,56.Rosscarbery in Cork,43.Round Towers,37,136,137.Rushlight,118.Ruskin,125.Sacred groves round monasteries,39.Sacred armistice of the Greeks,152.Saer, a mason or carpenter,133.Sai-re-caird, a head craftsman,137.Salmon,117.Salt,116.Saltair, of Tara,150.Salutation, modes of,158.Samain, 1st November,149.Satin,124,126.Schools and colleges,chap. vi.Science, various branches of, taught in Irish schools,48.Scotland,10,11,12,52,72,82,86,89,90,91,112,113,126,150.Scots,i.e., the Irish,9,10,58.Scottish harpers and music,84.Scrabo near Newtownards,28.Scribes,63.Scriptures, the Holy,48.Sedulius,49.Senchus Mór, Great Law Book,19,20.Sewing,141.Shanachie, a storyteller, a historian,74,81,112.Shears,138.Shee, fairies and fairy-dwellings,27,28,29.Sheep,130.Shellfish in dyeing,141.Shield,112.Ships,146.Shirt,126.Shoes,127.Shoes taken off at meals,115.Showmen,153.Shrine of St. Patrick’s Bell,39.Silversmiths: seeGoldsmiths.Sick maintenance in a hospital,105.Sieves,117.Silk,124,126.Singing,115,152.Singing of birds,162.Skewers,115.Slaan, a turf-spade,118.Sleeping accommodation,108.Sleep-music,89.Smiths,39,113,132,133,134.Soap,124.Solway Frith,11.Soothsayers,26.Sorrow-music,88.Spear-heads,133.Speckled Book,65.Spinning, spindles, and wheel,139,140.