DEIRDRE (deer´dree). Daughter of Felim, 196; Druid Cathbad draws her horoscope, 197; Conor decides to wed when of age, 197; nursed by Levarcam, 197; her love for Naisi, 198; carried off by Naisi, 198; returns with Naisi to Ireland, 198-200; forced to wed Conor, she dashes herself against a rock and is killed, 201; the tales of Grania and, compared, 296-304 DEITIES. The Celtic, Cæsar on, 87, 88; popular and bardic conception of Danaan, 104 DEMETRIUS. Visit to Britain of, 355; mentions island where “Kronos” was imprisoned in sleep while Briareus kept watch over him, 355 DEMNA. Otherwise Finn. Birth of, 255 DEO´CA. A princess of Munster; Children of Lir and, 142 DERMOT MACKERVAL. Rule of, in Ireland, and the cursing of Tara, 47, 48; arrests and tries Hugh Guairy, 48; dream of wife of, 48 DERMOT OF THE LOVE SPOT (DERMOT O’DYNA). Follower of Finn mac Cumhal, lover of Grania, bred up with Angus at palace on Boyne, 123; the typical lover of Irish legend, 123; slain by wild Boar of Ben Bulben, 123, 301, 302; friend of Finn’s, 261; described as a Gaelic Adonis, 290; Donn, father of, 290; Roc and, 290, 291; how Dermot got the Love Spot, 292; adventure with Gilla Dacar’s steed, 293-295; fight with the Knight of the Well, 294; love-story of Grania and, 296-304 DERRYVAR´AGH, LAKE. Aoife’s cruelty to her step-children at, 139-142 DESA. Foster-father of Conary Mōr, 167 DEWY-RED. Horse of Conall of the Victories, 233 DIALOGUES. Reference to Oisīn-and-Patrick and Keelta-and-Patrick, 289 DIANCECHT (dee´an-kecht). Physician to the Danaans, 108 DINEEN’S IRISH DICTIONARY. Reference to, 164, 165 DINNSENCHUS (din-shen´cus). Ancient tract, preserved in the “Book of Leinster,” 85 DIN´ODIG. Cantrev of, over which Llew and Blodeuwedd reigned, 382, 383 DINRIGH (din´ree). Maon slays Covac at, 153 DIODOR´US SIC´ULUS. A contemporary of Julius Cæsar; describes Gauls, 41, 42; Pythagoras and, 80 DIS. Pluto, equivalent, 88 DITHOR´BA. Brother of Red Hugh and Kimbay, slain by Macha, 151; five sons of, taken captive by Macha, 151, 152 DIUR´AN THE RHYMER. Germān and, companions of Maeldūn on his wonderful voyage, 313; returns with piece of silver net, 331 DODDER, THE RIVER, 175 DOLMENS Cromlechs, tumuli and, explanation of, 53 DŌN (_o_ as in “bone”). A Cymric mother-goddess, representing the Gaelic Dana, 348, 349; Penardun, a daughter of 349; Gwydion, son of, 349; genealogy set forth, 350 DONN. 1. Mac Midir, son of Midir the Proud, 285. 2. Father of Dermot; gives his son to be nurtured by Angus Ōg, 290 DONNYBROOK. Da Derga’s hostel at, 170 DOOCLOONE. Ailill slain in church of, 310; Maeldūn at, 311 DOWTH. Tumulus of, 74 DRUIDISM. Its existence in British Isles, Gaul, &c., 82; magical rites of, belief in survived in early Irish Christianity, 83