Stones of Aran

by Tim Robinson

Ród Charn Maolín, 1

  Ród na Creige Móire, 1, 2

  Ród na gCaiptíní, 1

  Róidín an Phúca, 1

  Róidín an Turlaigh, 1, 2

  Róidín Chlaí Chox, 1

  Róidín Docherty (Róidín Donnellan, Róidín Seoirse), 1

  Róidín Mháirtín, 1

  Róidín na Síog, 1

  Róisí Mhór (midwife), 1, 2

  Rónán, St., 1, 2

  Ros a’ Mhíl (Connemara), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  rose chafer beetle, 1, 2

  Ros Muc (Connemara), 1, 2, 3

  Roundstone (Connemara), 1

  round tower, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Roy (factory worker), 1

  Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, visit to Aran, 1

  rubbish-dump, 1

  ruined cabins, poem about, 1

  rye, 1, 2; harvesting, 1

  Rynne, Prof. Etienne, 1, 2

  St. Brigid’s (Catholic chapel), 1

  St. John’s Day, 1

  St. John’s Eve, see bonfires

  St. Lawrences: Lady Geraldine Digby, 1; Sir Thomas, Earl of Howth, 1;

  Hon. Thomas Kenelm Digby, 1, 2

  St. Macdara’s Day, 1

  St. Macdara’s Island, 1

  saints, see individual names

  saints’ beds, see leabaí

  Saints’ Island (Lough Ree), 1

  saints’ “Lives,” 1

  St. Thomas’s (Protestant church), 1, 2, 3

  sally gardens, 1, 2, 3

  Salrock (Connemara), 1

  “salting” of digs, 1

  Samhain (Hallowe’en), 1

  “Saucepans,” the, 1, 2, 3, 4

  sayings about: Aristotle, 1; building out to the west, 1;

  dividing five eggs, 1;

  Eochaill, 1;

  fox on your line, 1;

  Laetheanta na Bó Riabhaigh (Days of Brindled Cow), 1;

  peacock’s legs, 1;

  straw, 1;

  table you couldn’t buy, 1;

  “Whoever las it…,” 1

  scailp (cleft), 1

  Scailp Pháidín Uí Uiginn, 1

  Scairbh, An, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  scarps: east/west boundary, 1; and spring-lines, 1, 2;

  see also limestone

  Sceach Mhór, An, 1, 2

  schoolchildren, 1, 2, 3

  schools: building of, 1; in chapel, 1;

  Irish language, 1, 2;

  national, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  Protestant, 1, 2, 3;

  Scoil na “Jumpers,” 1;

  vocational school, 1, 2

  Screigín, An, 1, 2

  Scrios Buaile na bhFeadóg, 1

  Scrios Mór, An, 1

  scutch grass, 1

  Seacht dTeampaill, Na, 1

  Séadna (Fr. O’Leary), 1

  Sea Fencibles, 1

  sea-lily fossils, 1

  Sealy, Douglas (critic), 1

  sean-nós (old-style singing), 1

  sean-talamh (“old land”), 1

  settlement pattern, 1; see also individual villages

  Seven Churches, the, 1

  “Seven Romans” stone, 1, 2

  shale-and clay-bands, 1, 2, 3

  shamrock, 1

  Shannon, River, 1

  Shee, George (aid-donor), 1

  sheep, running after, 1

  shell-middens, 1, 2, 3

  shops, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  siar (west), 1

  signal-towers, 1, 2

  silver torc, 1

  Sinn Féin, 1, 2, 3

  Skellig Michael, 1

  sky-signs, 1, 2

  slab-shrines, 1

  slave, 1

  Sleepy Hollow (Baile an Dúin), 1

  Sliabh Mór, An, 1

  Slyne Head, 1, 2, 3

  Smith (trawler agent), 1

  smithies: Fearann an Choirce, 1, 2, 3

  soir (east), 1

  solution-hollows, 1

  Somerville, E. O., 1, 2

  “Song of the Arranman, The,” 1, 2

  souperism, 1, 2; “Soupers’ List,” 1

  spade, 1

  Spéicí, Na, 1

  Spidéal, An (Spiddle, Connemara), 1, 2, 3

  spider, rare species of, 1

  springs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Sruthán (Sruffawn), 1;

  Sruthán Beag, 1

  staighre (type of stile), 1, 2, 3

  Stail Yorke (stallion), 1, 2

  standing stones, 1, 2; see also cross-inscribed slabs and pillars

  Stanford, Fr., 1

  “Stations, the,” 1, 2

  Stephens, Dr., 1

  stick-fighting, 1

  stiles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  stoat, 1, 2

  stócáil, 1; see also reclamation of land

  Stokes, William, and Whitley Stokes, 1

  Stone Age, see Neolithic period

  stone-ricks, 1

  Stones of Aran Part I: review, 1; writing it, 1

  Stoney, Prof. George, 1, 2

  Stoney, Dr. James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  storms, 1, 2; storm-worship, 1, 2

  story-tellers, 1; see also Gillan family (Seán) and Máirtín Ó Conaola

  Strafford, Earl of, 1

  straw, measures of, 1

  Streamstown (Connemara), 1, 2

  “street,” 1, 2

  “street-villages,” 1

  stye, cure for, 1

  Suicín, An, 1

  Sunda Caoch, An, 1,

  sun-fish (basking shark), 1, 2, 3

  sun-sand-&-sex, 1

  sunsets, 1, 2, 3

  Swift, Dean, 1, 2

  Symons, Arthur, 1

  Synge, Rev. Alexander, 1

  Synge, J.M., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  Syringopora (fossil coral), 1

  tae scailpreach (maidenhair fern, q.v), 1

  Taibhdhearc, An (theatre), 1

  teachers’ residences, 1; Cill Éinne, 1, 2;

  Cill Rónáin, 1;

  Fearann an Choirce, 1, 2, 3;

  Sruthán, 1

  Teaghlach Éinne, 1

  Teampall an Cheathrair Álainn, 1

  Teampall an Phoill, 1

  Teampall Asúrnaí, 1

  Teampall Bheannáin, 1, 2, 3

  Teampall Bhreacáin, 1

  Teampall Chiaráin, 1, 2

  Teampall Chrónáin (Co. Clare), 1

  Teampall Mhic Duach, 1

  Teampall na Naomh, 1

  Teannaire, An, 1

  Telectron Ltd., 1

  telegraph and telephone poles, 1

  telegraph link, 1

  “termon,” 1

  thatch, reed, 1

  Thomas, Dylan and Caitlín, 1

  Thomond, 1, 2, 3

  Thompson, George (agent), 1, 2, 3

  Thompson, Thomas (agent), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Thomson, General, 1, 2

  “Tiger” King, 1, 2, 3

  Tír na nÓg (Land of Youth), 1, 2, 3

  Tizzard, A. (RAF gunner), 1

  Tobar an Bhradáin, 1

  Tobar an Bhuaile Bhródúil, 1

  Tobar an Cheatrair Álainn, 1

  Tobar Bhreacáin, 1

  Tobar Chiaráin, 1

  Tobar Ghréasaí na Scilleacha, 1

  Tobar Ghrióir, 1, 2, 3

  Tobar Iaráirne, 1, 2

  Tobar Mhic Duach, 1

  Tobar na Cúig Scilleacha, 1

  Tobar na mBráthar, 1

  Tobar na nAdhairc, 1

  Tomáisín Jamesie (Ó Flaithearta), 1, 2

  tombstones, 1, 2

  Tom Tom Mhikey Tom (butcher’s son), 1

  tourism, 1, 2, 3

  townlands, see Cill Éinne, Cill Mhuirbhigh, Eochaill, and Eoghanacht

  Trácht Each, 1

  Trá na bhFranncach, 1

  treasure, buried, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tromra castle (Co. Clare), 1

  tuberculosis, 1

  “turlach” (turlough), 1

  Turlach Mór, An (C
ill Rónáin), 1

  Turlach na mBrathar, 1

  Turlough (Burren), 1

  turloughs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Túr Mháirtín, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tutty, Fr. Benedict, 1

  Twelfth Night, 1

  Twelve Bens, the (Connemara), 1

  Ua Concheannáin, Peadar, 1

  Uí Briúin, 1

  Uí Fiachrach, 1, 2

  Uí Néill, 1, 2

  “Uisce Glan an Charna” (song), 1

  urine, used by weavers, 1

  Ussher, Archbishop James, 1

  Vallancey, Charles, 1, 2

  Vendryes, Prof., Lexique Étymologique de l’Irlandais Ancien, 1

  Veneti, 1

  Vestal (steam yacht), 1

  Vietnam War, 1

  Vikings: posible burial, 1; raids on Aran, 1

  Vinegar, the, 1

  Volunteers, 1

  Voyage of Maol Dúin, 1, 2

  Voyage of the Currach of the Uí Corra, 1

  Vyvyan, Clara, On Timeless Shores, 1

  Waddell, Prof. J., 1, 2, 3

  wages, labourers’, 1

  Wakeman, William, 1, 2, 3, 4

  wall, holding ghost of its builder, 1

  walls (of fields), 1; claí fidín, 1;

  total length in islands, 1

  Ward, Fr. Hugh, 1

  Wards (of Tromra castle), 1

  Ware, James, 1

  Warren, George (bible-reader), 1

  Watchman, the (hut), 1

  water, shortage of, 1, 2

  water-trough, 1

  Watty, Pádraic Joe, and his pub, 1

  weaving, 1

  wedge tombs, 1, 2, 3, 4

  weeds, 1

  Well of the Four Beauties, the, 1, 2, 3

  Well of the Saints, The (Synge), 1

  Western Stones Forts Project, 1

  Westport grain-merchant, story about, 1

  Westropp, Thomas (archaeologist), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  westwards direction, 1, 2; orientation of cottages, 1

  whale: stranded, 1; vertebrae in clochán, 1

  Whithorn (“Candida Casa”), 1

  Wigginses, 1, 2, 3, 4; monuments to, 1

  Wilde, Oscar, 1

  Wilde, William, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Wilson, Lt. Robert, 1

  Winnie (Hernon, Gort na gCapall), 1

  wise women (herbalists), 1, 2; see also Nell an Tower

  Wolfhound Press, 1

  women: discontented, 1; contented, 1;

  their place, 1

  wool: smuggling, 1; spinning, 1, 2;

  weaving, 1

  Woolley, Captain, 1

  wren, and Na Caiptíní, 1

  Wright, Prof. E.P., 1, 2

  x quantity in the Fairy Faith, 1

  Year of the French (1798), 1, 2; fugitives in Aran, 1, 2

  Yeats, W.B., 1, 2, 3, 4

  Yorkes: lighthouse-builder, and Stail Yorke, 1; Peadar, 1

  Zimmer, Heinrich, 1, 2

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