Stones of Aran (72 page)

1
Ruairí Ó hEithir,
op.
cit.
;
my translation.

2
For the word
scrios
see
Pilgrimage
,
p. 127.

3
(Pilot joke) Messenger,
op.
cit.

4
(Ó Tuathail) Information from Éamonn Ó Tuathail and Mícheál King.

5
Máirtín Ó Direáin, “Cuimhní Cinn,”
Dánta
Aniar
(Dublin, 1943); also in
Dánta
1939–1979.

1
R. O’Flaherty,
West
or
H-Iar
Connaught.

2
T. Mason,
The
Islands
of
Ireland,
and T. H. Westropp, “Brasil and the legendary islands of the north Atlantic: their history and fable. A contribution to the ‘Atlantis’ problem,” in
Proc.
RAI,
Vol. 30C (1912).

3
O’Donovan,
Ordnance
Survey
Letters.

4
R. O’Flaherty,
West
or
H-Iar
Connaught,
Hardiman’s footnote.

5
“Doctor Lee and Little Aran,”
Folktales
of
Ireland,
edited and translated by Sean O’Sullivan (London, 1966).

6
(Tadhg Ó Neachtáin)
Ar
Aghaidh
(1933); no author or source given.

7
Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920).

All
plant
species
are
listed
together
under
“plants”;
similarly
for
butterflies
and
birds.
All
names
in
Ó
or
O’
are
listed
at
the
beginning
of
the
“O”s.

• abbot of Jerusalem,
  1
  
• abbots of Cill Éinne,
  1
  
• AE (George Russell),
  1
  
• Aeneas,
  1
  
• Aer Árann,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Ailill (mythical figure),
  1
  
• Aill an Tine Chnáimh,
  1
  
• Aill Bhriste, An (south coast),
  1
  
• Aill Bhriste, An (Cill Rónáin),
  1
  
• Aill na nGlasóg, drownings at,
  1
  
• Aill na Sagart,
  1
  
• Áine (goddess),
  1
  
• Aird, castle of (Connemara),
  1
  
• airgead
  croise
  (cross–money),
  1
  
• Aisling Árann,
  1
  
• alchemist (Micilín Sarah),
  1
  
• algal paper,
  1
  
• allées
  couvertes,
  1
  
• “altar” (offering),
  1
  
• Altar (wedge tomb, Cork),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• American Bar,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Amhalgadh Earclasaigh,
  1
  
• Amhrán an “Chéipir” (song of the “Caper”),
  1
  
• Andrews, W. (botanist),
  1
  
• Angel Dance, the,
  1
  
• Annaghdown (monastery),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Annals of Inishfallen
  ,
  1
  
• Annals
  of
  the
  Four
  Masters,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ;
  
  • authorship of,
    1
    
• Annals
  of
  Tigernach,
  1
  
• anthropometrical investigation,
  1
  
• Aonghas (of the Fir Bolg),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Aonghas (of the Tuatha Dé Danann),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Árainn Bheag,
  1
  
• “Árainn i bhfad i gcéin” (song),
  1
  
• “Aran,” supposed derivation from “kidney,”
  1
  
• Araners, anonymous and
  pseudonymous
  : Beartla and the horse,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ;
  
  • Beartla and the “Stations,”
    1
    ;
    
  • Colm Mór and “M’Asal Beag Dubh,”
    1
    ;
    
  • man cutting brambles,
    1
    ;
    
  • man making a field,
    1
    ;
    
  • man pulling rye,
    1
    ;
    
  • man taking sand,
    1
    ;
    
  • Mikey Mikey Tom Mikey,
    1
    ;
    
  • old lady of Sruthán,
    1
    ;
    
  • Séamaisín and planting potatoes,
    1
    
• “Aran north,”
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Aran sweaters,
  see
  knitting
  
• “Aran View,” Doolin,
  1
  
• Ard Éinne (guesthouse),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Ard na gCaorach,
  1
  
• Aristotle,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Arkin, manor of,
  1
  
• Arkin Castle,
  see
  Caisleán Aircín
  
• Arran
  Yacht,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Artaud, Antonin,
  1
  
• artha
  í
  (charms),
  1
  
• Arthur (Pratt),
  1
  
• “
  asailín
  í
  an
  Chinn
  Thiar
  ”
  (little donkeys of the west end),
  1
  
• Asbian-Brigantian contact,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• asteroid collisions,
  1
  
• Asurnaí, St.,
  1
  
• Atharla, An (Cill Mhuirbhigh),
  1
  
• Atharla, An (Mainistir),
  1
  
• Atlantic Hotel,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  
• Atlantic Ocean, formation of,
  1
  
• Atlantis,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Aughnanure castle,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Augustinian monastery,
  1
  

• Baile an Dúin,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Baile na Creige,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  
• Baile na mBocht (Baile na Sean),
  1
  ;
  
  • ringforts in
    1
    
• bailiffs,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  
• Balfour, Arthur,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Balfour, J.H. (botanist),
  1
  
• Ball, J. (botanist),
  1
  
• Ballinasloe, psychiatric hospital in,
  1
  
• Ballindoon (Connemara), O’Malleys of,
  1
  ;
  
  • see
    also
    Bunowen castle
    
• Ballynahinch (Connemara): and Martins,
  1
  ;
  
  • and O’Flahertys,
    1
    ,
    2
    
• Ballynakill chapel (north
  Connemara
  ),
  1
  
• Balor,
  1
  
• Banc na mBanbh (agricultural bank),
  1
  
• Banim, Mary,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Barfoot, Henrietta Eliza (Lady Guinness),
  1
  
• barley,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  
• barracks: Cill Mhuirbhigh,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ;
  
  • Cill Rónáin,
    1
    
• Barr an Phointe,
  1
  
• Barrett, T.B., memorial to,
  1
  
• Barrington, Sir John,
  1
  
• Barr na Coise,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Barry, James G., “Aran of the Saints,”
  1
  
• basket-making,
  1
  
• basking sharks,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Battle of Aran,
  1
  
• bean feasa
  (wise woman)
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
  
  • see
    also
    Nell an Tower
    
• Bearchan, St.,
  1
  
• béarlachas
  (Englishisms),
  1
  
• Bécaud, Gilbert,
  Opéra
  d’Aran,
  1
  
• Beddoe, Dr.,
  The
  Races
  of
  Britain,
  1
  
• beestings,
  1
  
• beetles: flower-beetle,
  1
  ;
  
  • ladybird,
    1
    ;
    
  • rose chafer,
    1
    ,
    2
    
• Benan (Beanán), St.,
  1
  ;
  
  • see
    also
    Teampall Bheanáin
    
• Bhrachlainn Mhór, An, and An Bhrachlainn Bheag,
  1
  
• bicycles for hire,
  1
  
• Bideachaí, Na (brothers),
  1
  
• Billings method of birth-control,
  1
  
• Bingham, Sir Richard, and John Bingham,
  1
  
• Binse Ghibson,
  1
  
• birds: corncrake,
  1
  ;
  
  • cuckoo,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ;
    
  • goldcrest,
    1
    ;
    
  • heron,
    1
    ;
    
  • lapwing,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    
  • lark,
    1
    ;
    
  • peregrine falcon,
    1
    ;
    
  • pied wagtail,
    1
    ;
    
  • robin,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    
  • snipe,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    
  • sparrowhawk,
    1
    ;
    
  • stonechat,
    1
    ;
    
  • water rail,
    1
    ;
    
  • whooper swan,
    1
    ;
    
  • wren,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    
• “Bird’s Nest” (orphanage),
  1
  
• Black and Tans,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Black Head (Co. Clare),
  1
  
• “
  blackin
  bán
  ”
  (white shoe-polish),
  1
  
• blacksmiths,
  see
  Micil Riabhach Ó Niaidh and King family
  
• Blake, Henry, of Renvyle,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Blind Sound (An Sunda Caoch),
  1
  
• blood group study,
  1
  
• bó
  (cow),
  1
  
• boat-yard, Cill Rónáin,
  1
  
• Bodkin, Dr.,
  1
  
• Bodkin, Fr. Proinsias,
  1
  
• Bodleian Library, Oxford,
  1
  
• Bóithrín an Bhabhúin,
  1
  
• Bóithrín an Chaisil,
  1
  
• Bóithrín an Dúin Bhig,
  1
  
• Bóithrín an Teampaill,
  1
  
• Bóithrín an tSéipéil,
  1
  
• Bóithrín an tSléibhe Mhóir,
  1
  
• Bóithrín Bhaile na mBocht,
  1
  
• Bóithrín Denny,
  1
  
• Bóithrín Ghort Bheallach Uisce,
  1
  
• Bóithrín na bPóil,
  1
  
• Bóithrín na Coille,
  1
  
• Bóithrín na gCottageachaí,
  1
  
• Bóithrín na Scairbhe,
  1
  
• Bóithrín Thobar na hEochraí,
  1
  
• Bolgios (god),
  1
  
• bonesetters,
  1
  
• bonfires, St. John’s Eve,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Book
  of Aran,
  The,
  1
  
• “Book of O’Brasil,”
  1
  
• Bord na Gaeilge,
  1
  
• botanists’ visits,
  1
  
• bothántaíocht
  (visiting),
  1
  
• b
  ó
  thar
  (road),
  1
  
• Bóthar an Chaiptín,
  1
  
• Bóthar an “Phump,”
  1
  
• Bóthar an Screigín,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Bóthar na gCrag,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  
• Bóthar na gCrúibíní,
  1
  
• boulders, perched,
  1
  
• boundaries: between dialects,
  1
  ;
  
  • east/west,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    
  • of townlands and villages,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    
• boycotts: of bailiff,
  1
  ;
  
  • of O’Callaghan,
    1
    ;
    
  • of the “Saucepans,”
    1
    
• brachiopod fossils,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Bran the Pilgrim,
  1
  
• Breacán (Brecán), St.,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• bream, sun-dried,
  1
  
• Breandán (Brendan), St., of Clonfert,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  
• Breastquarter (Ceathrú an Oicht),
  1
  
• Breathnach, Máirtín,
  1
  
• Breeze
  (fishing smack),
  1
  
• Brendan of Birr, St.,
  1
  
• briars: cutting out,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
  
  • male and female,
    1
    
• Brigantian (subdivision of
  Carboniferous
  ),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Brión,
  1
  
• British Association visit,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Brittany (Neolithic tombs),
  1
  
• br
  ó
  g
  úrleathar
  (rawhide shoe),
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
  
  • see
    also
    pampooties
    
• Bronze Age,
  1
  ;
  
  • and Dún Aonghasa,
    1
    
• Broughtons,
  1
  
• Browne, C.R.,
  1
  
• Browne, Sir Thomas,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• buaile
  (milking pasture),
  1
  
• Buaile na gCopóg,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Buaile Phatsa,
  1
  
• bull,
  1
  ;
  
  • bull calves, castration of,
    1
    ;
    
  • weight-lifting a,
    1
    
• bullán
  (hollow in stone),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Bullán Asurnaí,
  1
  
• Bullán Mhaolodhair,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Bullán na Caillí,
  1
  
• bullaun stones,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Bun Gabhla (Bungowla),
  1
  
• bungalow, first in Aran,
  1
  
• Bunowen castle (Connemara),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Bunratty castle (Clare),
  1
  
• Burke, John (schoolmaster),
  1
  
• Burke, John (stonecutter),
  1
  
• Burke, O.J.,
  The
  South
  Isles
  of Aran,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Burke, Sir Theobald, Viscount Mayo,
  1
  
• Burren, the: children’s burial grounds,
  1
  ;
  
  • emigration,
    1
    ;
    
  • Eoghanacht Ninussa,
    1
    ;
    
  • forts,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    
  • jointing of limestone,
    1
    ;
    
  • rate of erosion,
    1
    ;
    
  • St. Mac Duach,
    1
    ;
    
  • seen from Aran,
    1
    ;
    
  • turloughs,
    1
    ;
    
  • vegetational history,
    1
    ;
    
  • wedge tombs,
    1
    ,
    2
    
• Burton, Frederick,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Butler, Hubert,
  1
  
• butterflies: brimstone,
  1
  ;
  
  • common blue,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    
  • dark green fritillary,
    1
    ;
    
  • dingy skipper,
    1
    ;
    
  • grayling,
    1
    ;
    
  • large heath,
    1
    ,
    
  • meadow-brown
    ,
    1
    ;
    
  • red admiral,
    1
    ;
    
  • ringlet,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    
  • small copper,
    1
    ;
    
  • small tortoiseshell,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    
  • speckled wood,
    1
    ;
    
  • wall,
    1