Stones of Aran

Page 72

by Tim Robinson

mass house, 1, 2

Matthews, Fr. Francis, 1

Maumturk Mountains, 1

May Eve, 1

McDonaghs of Creig an Chéirín, 1

McDonnell, Randall (schoolmaster), 1

McDonough, Lawrence, 1

McNamara, William (Doolin), 1

megalithic tombs, 1; see also wedge tombs

Mellifont, 1

Melville, Prof., 1

Messenger, John (anthropologist), 1

meteor-paper (algal paper), 1

Methodist missioner, 1

Meyer, Kuno, 1

Micilín Sarah, 1, 2, 3

Micks, W.L., History of the Congested Districts Board, 1, 2

midwives, 1, 2, 3

migraine cure, 1

Mikey an Bheairic, 1, 2, 3

Mil (Fir Bolg), 1

M’Manus, Rev. Henry, 1

Mochua, St., 1, 2

Mohr, Prof. Paul, 1

Móinín an Damhsa, 1

Molloy, Fr. Dara, 1

Moloney (schoolteacher), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Molyneux, Sir Thomas, 1

monkeys and apes, 1

monuments, roadside, see funerary monuments

Moore, D. (botanist), 1

Moore, Thomas, 1

Moran, Fr. Tadhg (Ó Móráin), 1, 2

Morris, George (eighteenth-century), 1, 2

Morris, George (of the LBG), 1

moths: cinnabar, 1; lackey, 1;

light arches, 1;

six-spot burnet, 1

motorcar, first in Aran, 1

Mount Brandon (Kerry), 1, 2

Mount Eagle (Kerry), 1

Moycullen, see O’Flahertys

Moytura, battles of, 1

Mugh Nuadhat, 1

“muifid” (cupboard), 1

Muintir Neide (the Neds), 1

muirbheach (sea-plain), 1, 2

Muirbheach na Croise, 1

Muirbhigh Móra, Na: in Cill Mhuirbhigh, 1; in Iarairne, 1, 2

Mullaghmore (Co. Clare), 1

Mullán Mór, An, 1, 2

Mullen, Dara (postman), 1, 2

Mullen, Pat, Hero Breed, 1, 2, 3

Mullen, P.J., 1

“Nancies,” the (family), 1

Napoleonic Wars, 1, 2

National Museum (Dublin), 1, 2

nautiloid fossil, 1

Neide, Pádraicín, 1

Nell an Tower (wise woman), 1, 2

Nellóg (wise woman), 1

Nem, St. (abbot), 1, 2, 3

nemeton (sacred glade), 1

Neolithic period, 1, 2; see also megalithic tombs

Newgrange, 1, 2, 3

New Ireland Review, 1

Niall of the Nine Hostages, 1

Ní Dhireáin, Máire (Pheige Cuaig), 1, 2

Nimmo, Alexander (engineer), 1

Norman invasion, 1

Nostoc (alga), 1, 2

nurse, district, 1, 2; Nurse Hedderman, 1

Oatquarter, 1; see also Fearann an Choirce

oats, 1, 2

Ó Briain family (Cill Éinne): Antoine, 1; Taimí, 1

O’Brien, Dr., 1, 2

O’Brien, John (publican), 1

O’Brien, Thomas, and Rev. Kilbride, 1

O’Briens (Munster): and Aran, 1; battle between, 1;

battles with O’Connors, 1;

Clann Thaidhg, 1;

Dal gCais, 1, 2

O’Cadhla (archbishop), his list of churches, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

O’Callaghan, David (schoolmaster), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; his wife, 1

O’Canavans (Iar-Chonnacht), 1, 2

O’Clery, Br Micheal, 1

Ó Conaire, Pádraig (writer), 1

Ó Conaola, Dara (writer), 1, 2

Ó Conaola, Máirtín (story-teller), 1, 2, 3

Ó Concheanáinn family: Máirtín, 1; Tomás Bán, 1, 2;

vineyards, 1, 2

Ó Conchúir, Séamas (poet), 1

Ó Conghaile (Cill Mhuirbhigh), see Conneelys

O’Connell, Daniel, 1

O’Connors (Connacht), 1; Roderick, High King, 1, 2

O’Dalys (Iar-Chonnacht), 1

Ó Direáin, Mairtín, 1, 2, 3; “Árainn 1947,” 1;

“Berkeley,” 1;

“Clochán na Carraige,” 1;

“Cuimhní Cinn,” 1;

“Cuireadh do Mhuire,” 1;

“Dán an Tí,” 1;

Feamainn Bhealtaine, 1;

“Mothú Feirge,” 1;

“Neam- hionraic Gach Beo,” 1, 2;

“Ó Mórna,” 1, 2;

“Stoite,” 1

Ó Direáin, Peadar, and bailiffs, 1

Ó Direáin, Tomás, 1; “An tÁrannach,” 1

Ó Domhnaill, Fr. Mártan, 1, 2; Oileáin Árann, 1, 2

Ó Domnaill, Pádraig, and Black and Tans, 1

“O Donel,” and Land Court, 1

O’Donnell, Red Hugh, 1

O’Donoghue, Fr. Michael, PP, 1, 2

O’Donovan, John, 1, 2; letters to the Ordnance Survey, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17;

poem by, 1

O’Duanes (Iar–Chonnacht), 1

Oengus mac Nadfroích, King of Cashel, 1, 2, 3

Office of Public Works 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

O’Flaherty, Fr. Francis, PP, 1, 2; Beartliméad (his father), 1

O’Flaherty, J.T., “A Sketch of … the Southern Isles of Aran …,” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

O’Flaherty, Liam, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Skerrett, 1, 2, 3, 4;

“Spring Sowing,” 1, 2

O’Flaherty, Roderic, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Michael (Roderic’s son), 1;

West or H-Iar Connaught, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

O’Flaherty, Tom, 1, 2, 3, 4

O’Flahertys (Kilmurvey House line), 1; Alise, 1;

Antony, 1;

Catherine, 1;

James, JP, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

John, 1;

Julia, 1;

Lily, 1, 2, 3, 4;

Marcella, 1;

Patrick, JP, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

Thady, 1

O’Flahertys of Gort na gCapall, 1, 2, 3, 4; Maidhc (Mícheál)

Ó Flaithearta, 1;

Pádraic Dan Phatch Ó Flaithbheartaigh, 1, 2;

see also Maeve, Liam

O’Flaherty, and Tom O’Flaherty

O’Flahertys of Iar-Chonnacht, 1; Antony (of Renvyle), 1;

Antony, MP (of Moycullen), 1;

arms and crest, 1;

Brian, 1;

Brian (of Lemonfield), 1;

Dónal an Chogaidh, 1, 2;

Dónal Crón, 1;

Éamonn Láidir, 1;

Edmund (Col.), 1, 2;

Edmund (son of Col. Edmund), 1;

Flaherty, 1;

Hugh Óg, 1;

Sir John (of Lemonfield), 1;

Marcus 1;

Murchadh na dTua (Sir Murrough), 1, 2;

Murchadh na Maor, 1;

Murchadh na Mart, 1, 2;

Murtagh, 1;

Owen, 1;

Owen (of Bunowen) 1;

Rory (of Moycullen), 1;

na Buile, 1, 2;

Thomas Henry (of Lemonfield), 1;

see also Roderic O’Flaherty

Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Pádraic Mór (the Giant of the Wood), 1, 2

Ó Flaithearta, Pádraicín Neide, 1

Ó Flannagáin, see Joe Flanagan

Ó Floinn, Fr. Donncha, 1

O’Fotharta, Dómhnall (schoolmaster), 1

Oghil, see Eochaill

Ogilby, L. (botanist), 1

Ó Grianna, Séamus (writer), 1

O’Growney, Fr. Eugene, 1

O’Hallorans (Iar-Chonnacht), 1

O’Hanlon, Canon, 1

Ó hEithir, Breandán (writer), 1

Ó hEithir, Pádraic (schoolmaster), 1, 2; his wife, Bn. Uí Eithir (Ní Fhlaithearta, schoolmistress), 1

Ó hEithir, Ruairí, Folk Medical Beliefs in the Aran Islands, 1, 2, 3
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Ó hIarnáin (Hernon, Cill Mhuirbhigh): Grannie, 1; Pat Mhicilín, 1;

Pat Phaidí, 1;

Sonny, 1;

see also Hernon-Johnston and Hernons

Ó hIarnáin, Colm (Cill Rónáin), 1

Ó hIarnáin, Colm P. (Colie Mhicilín), 1, 2, 3, 4

Ó hIarnáin, Pádraic, and Land War, 1

O’Hickey, Dr., 1

Oíche Bhealtaine (May Eve), 1

“ointigh” (habitation-site), 1

Oisín (of the Fianna), 1

O’Kennedys (Iar-Chonnacht), 1

O’Lees (Iar-Chonnacht), 1; Morogh O’Ley (Dr. Lee), 1

O’Leyn, Donatus (abbot), 1, 2

Ollscoil na Gaeilge (Synge’s cottage), 1

Ó Máille (shop, Galway), 1

O’Malley, Rev., PP, 1

O’Malleys (the Cill Éinne line): Máirtin Mór (Connemara), 1;

Martin (of the Hill Farm), 1, 2, 3, 4;

Maryanne, 1;

Pat, 1

O’Malleys of Mayo, 1, 2, 3; see also Gráinne Ní Mháille

Omey Island (Connemara), 1

Onaght, see Eoghanacht

Ó Niaidh, Micil Riabhach (blacksmith), 1

Ó Nualláin, Seán (archaeologist), 1

Opéra d’Aran (Bécaud), 1

Ordnance Survey, 1; maps, 1, 2, 3, 4

Oscar (dog), 1, 2

Ó Síocháin, P.A., 1, 2; Aran, Islands of Legend, 1

O’Toole, Tibbot, 1

Ó Tuathail, Éamonn (schoolmaster), 1, 2

Ó Tuathail, Pádraig (poitín-maker), 1

Ó Tuathail family (and Nell an Tower), 1

Oughterard (castle), 1

Palaeosmilia (fossil coral), 1

pampooties, 1, 2

Pangaea, 1, 2

Parnell, Charles, 1

Patrick, St., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

pearly nautilus, 1

Pearse, Patrick, 1, 2

Pedersen, Holger (linguist), 1, 2

Penal Laws, 1, 2, 3

perched boulders, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Petrie, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

petticoats, red, 1, 2, 3

Petty, Sir William, 1

pigs, 1

pilgrimages: to Aran, 1, 2; round island, 1

pillar-stone: Muirbheach na Croise, 1; see also cross-inscribed slabs and pillars

Pilot, SS, 1

pilots, ships’, 1, 2

pine martens, 1

piper, 1

plants: adder’s tongue fern, 1; agrimony, 1, 2;

alder, 1, 2, 3;

alexanders, 1;

Aneura pinguis (liverwort), 1;

autumn hawkbit, 1;

bartsia, 1;

bird’s eye speedwell, 1;

bird’s foot trefoil, 1, 2;

black bog rush, 1;

blackthorn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

bloody cranesbill, 1, 2, 3, 4;

bogbean, 1, 2;

brooklime, 1;

buckthorn, 1;

burnet rose, 1;

butterwort, common, 1;

Calamagrostis (“wood rush grass”), 1;

calamint, 1;

celandine, 1, 2, 3;

Cinclidotus fontaniloides (moss), 1;

columbine, 1;

Cordyline australis, 1;

cornflower, 1;

cranesbills (cut-leaved, dove’s foot, long-stalked, Pyrenean, shining-leaved), 1;

creeping cinquefoil, 1;

crowfoot (R. trichophyllus), 1;

cypress, 1, 2;

devil’s bit scabious, 1;

dewberry, 1;

dock, curled, 1;

dodder, common, 1;

dog-rose, 1;

early purple orchid, 1, 2;

elder, 1, 2;

elegant St. John’s wort, 1;

enchanter’s nightshade, 1;

Escallonia, 1, 2;

fairy flax, 1, 2;

field madder, 1;

fumitary, 1;

garlic mustard, 1;

golden saxifrage, 1, 2;

Griselinea littoralis, 1;

groundsel, 1;

hairy bittercress, 1;

hairy rockcress, 1;

hardhead, 1;

hart’s-tongue fern, 1, 2, 3;

hawthorn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

hazel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

herb bennet, 1;

herb robert, 1;

Himalayan balsam, 1;

honeysuckle, 1, 2, 3;

Irish marsh orchid, 1;

Jerusalem anemone, 1;

kidney vetch, 1, 2;

knapweed, 1;

lady’s bedstraw, 1;

lady’s mantle, 1;

lady’s smock, 1, 2;

limestone bugle, 1, 2;

long-headed poppy, 1;

maidenhair fern, 1, 2, 3, 4;

marram grass, 1;

marsh bedstraw, 1, 2;

marsh orchids, 1, 2;

marsh pennywort, 1;

marsh ragwort, 1;

marsh yellow cress, 1;

meadow buttercup, 1, 2;

meadow pea, 1;

meadowsweet, 1;

milkwort, common, 1;

montbretia, 1;

mountain ash, 1;

mountain everlasting, 1;

mugwort, 1;

mullein, common, 1;

Neotinia (dense-flowered orchid), 1;

old man’s beard, 1;

ox-eye daisy (moon daisy), 1, 2;

penny-cress, common, 1;

petty spurge, 1;

Pittosporum, 1, 2;

purple clover, 1, 2;

purple loosestrife, 1, 2, 3;

purple milk-vetch, 1;

quaking grass, lesser, 1;

ragged robin, 1;

redleg, common, 1;

Rosa spinosissima, 1;

rose-root, 1;

rusty-back fern, 1;

sanicle, 1, 2;

scarlet pimpernel, 1;

scurvy-grass, common, 1;

scutch grass, 1;

shepherd’s purse, 1;

silverweed, 1, 2, 3;

spearwort, lesser, 1;

spike rush, 1;

spindletree, 1;

spleenwort fern, common, 1;

spotted orchid, common, 1;

squinancywort, 1, 2;

sycamore, 1, 2, 3;

thale cress, 1;

toad rush, 1;

tormentil, 1, 2, 3;

tree mallow, 1;

tufted vetch, 1;

tutsan, 1;

twayblade, common, 1;

veronica (Hebe) bushes, 1, 2;

wall-rue, 1;

watermint, 1, 2;

water speedwell, 1, 2, 3;

white campion, 1;

white clover, 1, 2;

whitlow-grass, common, 1;

wild carrot, 1;

wild leek, 1;

wild strawberry, 1, 2;

wild valerian, 1, 2;

“wood rush grass,” 1, 2;

wood-sorrel, 1, 2;

yellow pimpernel, 1;

yellow rattle, 1

Pluais an Ghréasaí, 1

Pobal Árann (Eochaill chapel), 1

Pocaide Bán, An (James O’Flaherty), 1

póiríní (hutches), 1, 2, 3

poitín, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Poll an Chapaill, 1

pollen analysis, 1

Poll i’ bhfolach, An, 1, 2

Poll na Loinge, 1

Poll Talún, 1

Poll Uí Néadáin, 1

Poor Law Guardians, 1, 2, 3

population, 1; see also emigration

Porcupine Bank, 1

Port Bhéal an Dúin, 1, 2

Port Chorrúch, 1, 2, 3

Port Daibhche, 1, 2, 3

Port Mhuirbhigh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Port na Mainistreach, 1

potato: blight and Famine, 1; cultivation, 1;

&nb
sp; and land-reclamation, 1;

nineteenth-century diet, 1

Poulnabrone dolmen (Co. Clare), 1

Powell, Antoine, Oileáin Árann, 1, 2, 3, 4

Powell, Seán (Baile na Creige), 1

Praeger, Robert Lloyd, 1, 2, 3, 4

Praiseach Pheige Cuaig (stitch), 1

Presbyterian missioner, 1

Protestantism, 1; ministers, 1, 2;

schools, 1, 2

púca (goatish fairy), 1, 2

púcán (small sail-boat), 1

Pupeus, St., 1, 2

Queen’s College, Galway, 1

quern-stones, 1, 2, 3

rabbits: magical, 1, 2; myxomatosis, 1

Raftery (poet), 1

rainbows, 1

Raith Bresail, synod of, 1

rats and potatoes, 1, 2

rawhide shoes, see pampooties

Rawlinson, Dr. Richard, 1

rebellion of 1641, 1, 2, 3; see also Cromwellian period

reclamation of land, 1

rectory, 1, 2, 3, 4

Reilig an Chochaill, 1, 2

Reilig na nGasúr, 1

relief-committees: in 1846, 1; in 1861, 1;

in 1880, 1

relief-works, 1, 2;

funding of, 1;

religious controversies at, 1

Relieving Officer, 1, 2, 3

rental of islands, 1, 2

Renvyle (Connemara), 1, 2, 3, 4

reservoir, 1

Residence, the, 1, 2, 3

Rhys, Sir John (Celticist), 1

Richardson, Surgeon, 1

rift-valley, 1

rights-of-way, 1, 2, 3, 4

Rivers, Elizabeth (artist), 1, 2

road-building, 1, 2, 3

Road of the Dishes (Burren), 1

Robinson, Henry (agent), 1, 2

Robinson, Sir Henry (Local Government Board), 1, 2

Robinson, Tim: inconclusive career, 1; literary shortcomings, 1;

money in rubber-mines, 1

Rocks Road, 1; see also Bóthar na gCrag

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