_Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy Fiachraich_, pp. 6-11. Footnote 221: _Description of West Connaught_, p. 127. Footnote 222: Reeves’s _Eccles. Antiquities of Down and Connor_, pp. 332, 345. Footnote 223: Reeves’s _Down and Connor_, p. 348. Footnote 224: _Collect. de Reb. Hib._, vol. i. pp. 164, 169. Footnote 225: _Ancient Laws of Wales_, p. 86. Footnote 226: _Ancient Laws of Wales_, pp. 84, 268. Footnote 227: _Ancient Laws of Wales_, 82, 5, 6; 697, 5. Footnote 228: _Ancient Laws of Wales_, pp. 96, 97. It is not quite clear whether the length of an _Erw_ is thirty times its breadth, or thirty times the long yoke. In the latter case the _Erw_ would contain only 1706 square yards, or rather more than the third of an acre. Footnote 229: _Ancient Laws of Wales_, p. 81. Footnote 230: _Ib_., p. 263. Footnote 231: _Ancient Laws of Wales_, p. 375. Footnote 232: _Myvyrian Arch._, vol. iii. p. 298, No. 80. Footnote 233: _Ib_., pp. 88, 96, 573. Footnote 234: _Welsh Laws_, 394, 699. Footnote 235: _Four Ancient Books of Wales_, vol. ii. p. 461. Footnote 236: _Ancient Laws_, p. 266. Footnote 237: _Ancient Laws_, p. 605. The form of the figure has been slightly altered, in order to bring it to the same form as that shown in the Irish system. Footnote 238: _Ancient Laws_, pp. 198, 199. Footnote 239: _Ancient Laws_, p. 95. Footnote 240: _Ib_., p. 98. Footnote 241: Diodorus Siculus, lib. v. c. 21. Footnote 242: Strabo, lib. iv. Footnote 243: Cæsar, _De Bello Gallico_, v. 12. Footnote 244: Solinus, c. 22. Footnote 245: Xifiline, lib. lxxvi. s. 12-16. Footnote 246: These passages are taken from the edition of the _Amra Choluim Chilli_, with a translation by Mr. O’Beirne Crowe. Footnote 247: _Miscellany of the Celtic Society_, p. 61. Footnote 248: The word _Gialla_ means a hostage, and the Irish district is said to have been so named because the hostages of the conquered people were fettered with golden fetters. Footnote 249: _Chronicles of Picts and Scots_, pp. 308-314. The numbers are given as stated in the tract, but seem not quite correct. Thus there is an enumeration of the houses of the Cinel Angusa in connection with the lands occupied by them, which amount to 330 in place of 430, and the armed muster is not in proportion to the size of the tribe as shown by the number of houses. It is probable those of the Cinel Gabran and Cinel Angusa have been transposed, and that the 500 belongs to the former, the 300 to the latter. Footnote 250: _Hist. MSS. Rep._ v., p. 613; Robertson’s _Index_, pp. 39, 57. Footnote 251: ‘Taisius (_Toisech_) apud nos idem est sensu literali ac Capitaneus seu precipuus dux.’—O’Flaherty, _Ogygia_. Footnote 252: ‘Thanus apud priscos Scotos sive Hybernos dicitur Tosche.’—_Regiam Majestatem_, B. iv. c. 31; note by Sir John Skene. Footnote 253: