[49] See _Journal_, 1894, 1895; also _Trans._ Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. xxx. pt. 1, xxxi. pt. 2. [50] A somewhat similar example occurs in the sepulchral monument at Glenmalin, Co. Donegal. See _Journal_ Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ir., 1890, p. 264. [51] _Rude Stone Monuments of Sligo_, p. 136. [52] _Catalogue of Antiq._, p. 27. [53] See _Journal_, R. S. A. I., 1870, p. 579. [54] _Politics_, Bk. iv., Ch. 2. [55] _Murray’s Handbook of Ireland_ (1902), p. 350. [56] See _Reliquary and Illustrated Archæologist_, vol. i., p. 35. [57] _British Barrows_, p. 19. [58] _Rambles and Studies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Dalmatia_, pp. 132, 133. [59] _Ibid._, p. 400. [60] _Journal_ Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1852–3, p. 295. [61] _Pagan Ireland_, p. 108. [62] _Journal_ Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1876–8, p. 178. [63] _Primeval Antiquities of Denmark_, p. 96. [64] _The Civilization of Sweden in Heathen Times_, p. 32. [65] _Schliemann’s Excavations_, by Dr. Schuchhardt, p. 86. [66] _Early Age of Greece_, by W. Ridgeway, p. 495. [67] _Early Age of Greece_, by W. Ridgeway, p. 495. [68] _Annals of the Four Masters_, A.D. 537. [69] _Ibid._ [70] _Ibid._, A.D. 458. [71] _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_, O’Curry; Introduction, p. cccxl. [72] Dr. Sullivan was of opinion that these words are used here in the sense of funeral pyre; but this is not accepted, as strictly they are applied to the whole funeral rite, especially to the reciting of dirges, and the performance of games. See _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_, vol. i., cccxxiii. [73] O’Curry, _Manners and Customs_, III. 176. [74] _Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil_, Richard Rolt Brash, p. 13. [75] _Irish Names of Places_, vol. i., p. 262. [76] _Ogam Inscribed Monuments_, R. R. Brash, pp. 99–101. [77] _Journal_ Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1898, p. 1 (Rev. Canon Lett, M.A.). [78] _Journal_ R.S.A.I., 1885, p. 362. [79] _Prehistoric Scotland_, p. 352. [80] For a full account of this structure see a Paper by the Rev. William Falkiner, M.A., _Proc._ R.I.A., vol. v., 3rd series, p. 211. [81] _Journal_ Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1860, p. 222. [82] For an interesting account of this fort by Mr. P. J. Lynch, see _Journal_ Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1899, p. 5. [83] _Journal_ R.S.A.I., 1893, p. 281; 1896, pp. 142, 363; 1897, p. 116. [84] See _Journal_ Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1898, p. 325, for notes and admirable plan, by Mr. P. J. Lynch. [85] Mr. Stewart Macalister says this should be Cathair na Mairtinech, the ‘Fort of the Martins.’ [86] _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_, iii., pp. 56–72. [87] _Trans._ Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. xxxi., pt. vii., p. 334. [88] _Eccles. Arch._, p. 445 _et seq._ [89] Donough Cairbreach O’Brien (d. 1242) built a rath, and Brian Boru repaired many of the forts of Munster in his own lifetime. [90] _Scientific Transactions_, Roy. Dub. Soc, vol. i., 2nd ser., p. 200. [91] _Catalogue_ R.I.A., p. 254; _Journal_ Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1885, p. 126.