by Tim Robinson
relief-committee, 1
Fán an Uisce, 1
Fanchea, St., 1
Farragher, Rev. Murtagh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; house bombed, 1;
and Skerrett, 1, 2, 3
“fataí, na” (main meal), 1, 2, 3
Fathach na Coille, 1
fearachaí (mannikins), 1
Fearann an Choirce (Oatquarter): fields, 1, houses, 1;
in the Famine, 1;
short-cuts, 1
Fearann na gCeann, 1
Fear na bhFataí (the potato-man), 1
Fear na Mapaí (the man of the maps), 1
Fear na Slata Mara (the searod-man), 1
Feast of the Assumption, 1, 2
Ferguson, Sir Samuel, 1, 2, 3, 4
“Ferocious O’Flahertys, The,” 1, 2; see also O’Flahertys
fever outbreak (1863), 1
Fhaircheallaigh, Una Ní (O’Farrelly), 1
Fianna Fáil, Aran branch, 1
fields: in Fearann an Choirce, 1; field-system, 1;
number of, 1, 2
Finck, Franz Nikolaus (linguist), 1, 2
Finnian the Younger, St., 1
Fionn Mac Cumhaill, 1, 2
Fir Bolg, 1, 2, 3, 4
Fireball Macnamara, 1
fishing: development of fleet, 1, 2, 3; herring, 1;
long-line, 1;
pre-Famine fleet, 1
trawlers, 1
fissures, see limestone
Fitzpatrick, Bridget, 1
Fitzpatricks (of Clare and Cill Éinne): Edmund, 1; history, 1;
and Knockbane, 1;
memorials to, 1;
Richard (of Cill Éinne), 1;
Richard, seneschal of Ibrickan, 1
Flaherty, Brian (gardener), 1, 2
Flaherty, Mary, and Rev. Kilbride, 1
Flaherty, Robert (film-maker), 1, 2, 3
Flaithbheartach (ancestor of O’Flahertys), 1
Flanagan, Joe (Seosaimh Ó Flannagáin), 1, 2
Flann Sinna, High King, 1
flax: cultivation ridges, 1, 2, 3; spinning, 1
Fleming, Patrick (Louvain), 1
Fleming family: Nora, and the cuckoo, 1; Thomas, of the IRA, 1, 2
flora: number of species, 1, 2; see under plants
fóidín mearbhaill (stray sod), 1
Folan, Colie, 1
Folan family, 1
folklore: see Aristotle, evil eye, fairies, fox legend, ghosts, Hy Breasail, treasure, etc.
folk medicine, 1, 2
Fonte, Fr. Gaspar (abbot), 1
Ford, John (film director), 1
“fosleac” (stone cell), 1, 2
fossils: brachiopod, 1, 2; corals, 1, 2;
nautiloid, 1, 2;
sea-lily, 1
fountain-pen cap, 1
Fox, Sir Stephen, 1, 2, 3
fox legend, 1
Franciscan House of Studies (Killiney), 1
Franciscan monastery, 1
Franncach Sheáinín Bhile (Artaud), 1
Freeman’s Journal, 1
French, Joan (of Spiddle), 1, 2
French, Patrick (trustee for Bishop Digby), 1
French officer in cave, 1
Fuaidh castle (Oughterard), 1
fulacht fia (cooking-site), 1
funerary cairns, 1, 2
funerary monuments: Cill Éinne, 1, 2; Cill Mhuirbhigh, 1;
Eochaill, 1;
Eoghanacht, 1;
Fearann an Choirce, 1;
mainland, 1
Fursey, St., 1, 2
gabhal (fork), 1
Gaelic League, 1; Aran branch, 1, 2;
and Breandán Ó hEithir, 1
Gaeltacht, 1, 2
Gaeltarra Éirinn, 1
Gahan, Muriel, 1
Gairdín na Sailí, 1
Gairmscoil Éinne (vocational school), 1
Galway, early history of, 1; wardens of, 1
Galway Bay Steamboat Company, 1
Galway Vindicator, 1, 2, 3
Ganly family: Maggie, 1, 2; Pat, 1, 2, 3;
Thomas (engineer), 1, 2;
Thomas (of the Land League), 1, 2, 3;
Rev. William, 1
gaps (in walls), 1
Garnett, Edward, 1
Garomna (Connemara), 1
Garraí an tSeanballa, 1
Garraí an tSeantí, 1
garraí bán, garraí loirg (fallow and lea land), 1
Garraí Joe, 1
Garraí na Ceártan, 1
Gaultier, Jean Paul, 1
geansaí (sweater), 1
General, the (horse), 1
Georgiana (fishing smack), 1
ghosts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Giant of the Wood, 1, 2
Gibbons, Michael (archaeologist), 1
Gibbons, Rev. Michael, PP, 1, 2
Gibson (coastguard) and family, 1
Gigantoproductus (brachiopod), 1
Gilbert Cottage, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gillan family, 1; Bríd (Bn. Uí Dhireáin), 1, 2, 3;
Róisí Mhór, 1, 2;
Séan (storyteller), 1, 2, 3, 4
Gill family, 1, 2; Bobby, 1, 2;
Katie, 1, 2;
Máire (Bn. Uí Chonghaile), 1;
Peter (driver to Dr. Stoney), 1, 2
Giollagóri (abbot), 1
glaciation, 1, 2; erratic boulders, 1, 2;
striae, 1;
till, 1
gleáinníní (small glens), 1, 2, 3, 4
Gleannachán, An, 1, 2
Gleann Glaise (Joyce Country), 1
Gleann Ruairí Óg, 1
Glencolmcille, 1
goats, 1; kids, 1, 2, 3
Golam Head (signal tower, Connemara), 1, 2
gold, see treasure
golf course, proposed, 1
Gort an Bhiolair, 1
Gort an Éadáin, 1
Gort na gCapall: boundary with Cill Mhuirbhigh, 1; devilment from, 1;
Fitzpatricks, 1;
foundation of, 1;
saints’ boundary, 1, 2;
short-cuts, 1;
situation, 1, 2;
story about, 1;
turlough, 1, 2;
women of, 1;
see also O’Flahertys
Goulden, John (archaeologist), 1, 2, 3
Gráinne, see Diarmaid and Gráinne
Gráinne Ní Mháille (Grace O’Malley), 1
granite boulders: for sharpening spades, 1; used in gaps, 1;
see also perched boulders
Grecraige, the (tribe), 1
Green, Rev. W. S., 1
green flash, 1
Gregory, Lady, 1, 2
Gregory, St., 1, 2, 3, 4
Grióir, An, 1
grotto, 1
“gryke,” 1; see also limestone
Guaire, King, 1, 2
Guinness family: Capt. Lee and Lady Henrietta Eliza, 1; monkey, 1
gunboats, 1
Haddon, Prof. A.C., 1, 2
Hag’s Head signal tower, 1
hall, community, 1, 2, 3
Hallowe’en, 1
Harbison, Peter (archaeologist), 1, 2
Hardiman, James, 1, 2, 3; his edition of West or H-Iar Connaught, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
History of Galway, 1
hare, the last in Aran, 1
Harley, Rev., PP, 1
“Harry Stattle,” 1
Hart, H.C. (botanist), 1, 2, 3
hazel scrub, 1, 2; cutting rods, 1;
in the Burren, 1
health clinic, 1
Heaney, Seamus, 1
Hedderman, Nurse, 1
hedgehog, 1
Helueus, St., 1
hen and chicks, 1
Henry, Françoise, 1
Henry III, 1
Henry VIII, 1, 2
Hercynian (period of mountain building), 1
heritage centre (Ionad Árann), 1, 2
Hernon-Johnston, Bridget and Treasa, 1, 2
Hernons (Cill Mhuirbhigh), 1; Beartla, 1, 2, 3;
Beartla (b
ailiff), 1;
the Colonel, 1;
Grannie, 1;
Sonny, 1;
see also Ó hIiarnáin
high crosses: in Cill Éinne, 1, 2 forerunners of, 1;
memorial to Fr. O’Donoghue, 1;
at the Seven Churches, 1
Hilarius, St., 1
Hill Farm, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Hindley, Prof. R., 1
Hitler, 1, 2
holy wells, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Hope, Bob, 1
hops, 1
Horan (butcher), 1
horsehairs, and eels, 1
horses: Connemara pony, 1, 2; the General, 1;
Stail Yorke, 1, 2
Howth: Countess of, 1; Earl of, 1;
see also St. Lawrences and Digby family
hulk (ice-store), 1
Hy Breasail, 1
Iaráirne, 1; derivation of name, 1
Iar-Chonnacht, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ibrickan (Co. Clare), 1
Ice Ages, 1; see also glaciation
Indian (American), story of, 1
Infants’ Burial Ground 1; see also the Burren
Inishbofin, 1
Inishmurray, 1, 2
Inis Leacan, 1
Inis Meáin: and Árainn Bheag, 1; Concannons, 1, 2;
Irish-language enthusiasts, 1;
Knitwear Co., 1;
land reclamation, 1;
Lawless’ Grania, 1;
O’Callaghan, 1;
Petrie, 1;
potato blight, 1;
RSAI visit, 1;
Synge, 1, 2;
wedge tombs, 1
Inis Oírr: abbot of, 1; cuckoo story, 1;
demised to McNamara, 1;
derivation of name, 1;
dialect, 1;
Fitzpatricks, 1, 2;
Fr. O’Flaherty, 1;
Nurse Hedderman, 1;
Petrie, 1;
saved by limpet, 1;
signal tower, 1;
wedge tomb, 1
inquisition of 1581, 1, 2
Íochtar an Bhaile, 1, 2
Iona, 1, 2
Ionad Árann (heritage centre), 1, 2
Irish Field Club Union visit, 1
Irish Iodine and Marine Salts Co., 1
Irish Island Society, 1
Irish language: Aran dialects, 1; status of, 1, 2, 3
Irish National League, 1
iron, magic of, 1
Iron Age, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Irwins of Cottage (Roscommon), 1
Island and Coast Society, 1
Iubhar, 1
Jacob’s dream, 1
Jarlath, St., 1
jarvies, 1
Jobber, the little, 1
Joeen na gCloch, 1, 2, 3
Joe Watty’s pub, 1, 2, 3, 4
John, Augustus, 1
Johnston family: crest, 1; George Irwin, 1;
James, 1, 2, 3;
Patrick O’Flaherty Johnston, 1, 2, 3;
Robert (Doolin), 1, 2;
see also Hernon–Johnston
Joyce, James, 1
Joyce Country, 1
jugs, decorative, 1
“Jumpers,” 1, 2, 3
Keating, Geoffrey, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, 1
Kelly, Frank (rates collector), 1
Kells, Synod of, 1
kelp: monopoly, 1; prices, 1, 2
Kerrigan, Paul, 1
Kevin, St., 1
key of clock, 1
Kilbride, Rev., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; as antiquarian, 1, 2, 3, 4
Kilcholan, 1
Kilchorna, 1
Kilfenora: high crosses, 1; diocese of, 1
Killary Harbour (Connemara), 1
Killeany, see Cill Éinne
Killeany Lodge: Aisling Árann, 1; Fitzpatricks, 1, 2, 3;
Irish language school, 1;
Martin and Ross, 1;
O’Malleys, 1;
the “Saucepans,” 1
Killeen, Fr. Thomas (Ó Cillín), 1, 2; Short Annals of Aran, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Kilmacduagh, 1
Kilmartin (and the Land War), 1
Kilmurvey, 1; see also Cill Mhuirbhigh
Kilmurvey House, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Kilronan, see Cill Rónáin
Kinahan, G.H. (geologist and antiquarian), 1, 2
Kincora, 1
King, Stephen (Cill Mhuirbhigh), 1
King family (blacksmiths), 1, 2, 3; Gregory, 1;
Mícheál, 1, 2;
Patrick, 1;
“Tiger” (Colman), 1, 2, 3;
smithy, 1, 2
Kinsale, defeat of, 1
Kinvara (Co. Galway), 1, 2
knitting: stockings, 1;
Aran knitting, 1
Knockbane (Knockbaun, Moycullen), 1
Korea, Ladies’ Tennis Champion of, 1
Kosangas, 1
Labouchère (journalist), 1
“Lá Brea’s” (language learners), 1
lackey moth caterpillars, 1
ladybirds, 1
Lamb, Charles (painter), 1
Lambert, Walter, of Cregclare, 1
Land Act of 1891, 1
Land Commission: fair rents, 1; houses, 1;
purchase of Aran, 1
Land Court, 1, 2, 3, 4
Land League: Aran branch, 1, 2, 3; National, 1, 2
Land War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; reparations, 1
Langridge, David (geologist), 1
Lár an Bhaile, 1
lark’s nest, 1
Lawless, Emily, Grania, the Story of an Island, 1
lazy-beds (spade-ridges), 1
Leaba an Spioraid Naoimh, 1
Leaba Asurnaí (St. Soorney’s Bed), 1
Leaba Bhreacáin, 1
Leaba Dhiarmada is Gráinne, see Diarmaid and Gráinne
Leaba Rónáin, 1
leabaí (“bed” or grave), 1
leacht (monument or flagstone), 1, 2
Leacrachaí an Fháin, 1
“Leamhchoill,” 1; see also Tobar an Bhradáin
Leath-cheathrú Bheairtliméid, 1
Lebor Gabála (the Book of the Taking of Ireland), 1, 2
Leitir Mealláin (Connemara), 1, 2, 3
Lemonfield (Connemara), 1
leprechaun, 1
Lesser Aran, the, 1
Letterdeskert (Connemara), 1
Lever, Charles, 1
Lewis, Samuel, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1
Lhuyd, Edward, 1, 2, 3
“ligaitreabh” (liag-áitreabh, “pillar-house”), 1
light arches moth, 1
lighthouses: Eochaill, 1, 2, 3, 4; North Light, 1
Lilliput Press, the, 1, 2
limestone: clints and grykes, 1, 2, 3; dolomitized, 1;
karst, 1;
pavements, 1, 2;
solution-hollows, 1;
strata, 1, 2, 3;
see also Carboniferous period, fossils, and glaciation
Lios na dTrom, 1
Lismore Lives of the Saints, 1
Lithostrotion (fossil coral), 1
Lively Lady (lobster-boat), 1, 2
liverworts, 1
“Lives” of the saints, 1
lizard (O’Flaherty crest), 1
Local Government Board, 1
Loch an Mhuirbhigh: Cill Mhuirbhigh, 1; Bun Gabhla, 1
Log na Marbh, 1, 2
Lonán the Left-handed, 1
London Hibernian Society, 1
longevity of Araners, 1
“long hundreds” of fish, 1
Longley, Michael, 1
Lough Corrib (and O’Flaherty history), 1
Lough Hacket (Headford), 1
Louvain, 1, 2, 3
luí mór (big lie-down), 1
Lylly, Florence (Elizabethan grantee), 1
Lynam, E.V., 1
Macc Maras (abbot), 1
Maccrethe, St., 1
MacDermot, Conor (geologist), 1, 2, 3, 4
MacDonagh, Th
omas (of the Easter Rebellion), 1
Mac Duach, St., 1
Mac Firbhisigh, Duald, 1
“machair” (muirbheach), 1
Mac Giolla Phádraig, Pádraig, 1
Mackay, J. T. (botanist), 1
Mac Murrough, Dermot, 1
Macnamaras, of Clare: Francis (Doolin), 1, 2; Francis (Ennistymon), 1
MacNeill, Eoin, 1
Mac Síomáin, Tomás (poet), 1
mada mór (supernatural dog), 1
Maeve (Bn. Uí Fhlaithearta), 1, 2
Maghraidhin, Aughuistin (scribe), 1
Mahon, Derek, 1
Maigh Seola, 1, 2
Mainistir, 1; Battle of Aran, 1;
boundary, 1;
Ganly’s farm, 1;
origin of name, 1
Máiréad (Arthur’s), 1
Máire Bhríd Rua (Bn. Uí Fhlaithearta), 1
Malham (Yorkshire), 1
Manning, Conleth (archaeologist), 1
Man of Aran (film), 1, 2, 3, 4
Mansion House Fund, 1
maolán (potato-clamp), 1
Maol Dúin, voyage of, 1, 2
Maoltuile, abbot of Inis Oírr, 1, 2
Marcus and Maggie (Bun Gabhla), 1
Markievicz, Countess, 1
Martin family: Annable, 1, 2; Richard (Nimble Dick), 1;
Col. Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Violet, 1, 2
Martyn, Edward, 1, 2
Martyrology of Tallaght, 1, 2
Mason, Thomas, The Islands of Ireland, 1, 2