Footnotes

6: A LEGEND OF KNOCKMANY

1 A common name for the cloud or rack that hangs, as a forerunner of wet weather, about the peak of a mountain

2 There is upon the top of this hill an opening that bears a very strong resemblance to the crater of an extinct volcano.

12: MASTER AND MAN

3 A festival held in honour of some patron saint

15: THE HORNED WOMEN

4 Sliábh-na-mban – i.e., mountains of the women

17: THE SOUL CAGES

5 sowkins, diminutive of soul

6 Recté, doech án dorrus – door-drink or stirrup-cup

7 Tri-na-cheile, literally through other – i.e., higgledy-piggledy

19: THE ENCHANTMENT OF EARL GERALD

8 The last time Gearoidh Iarla appeared the horse-shoes were as thin as a sixpence.