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: see chap. 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.