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: see Goldsmiths. 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. Spinning-wheel songs, 89. Spit for cooking, 115, 116. Spunk, tinder, 118. Spurs, none used, 145. Squire or shield-bearer, 112. Steel, 141. Stilicho, 14. Stirabout, 117. Stokes, Miss Margaret, 93. Stokes, Dr. Whitley, 80. Stone-building, 107, 132, 136.