1. Territorial Subdivision [see extract]
2. Classes of Kings
3. Election and Inauguration
4. Revenue and Authority
5. Privileges [see extract]
6. Limitations and Restrictions
7. Household, Retinue, and Court Officers
8. The Over-Kings

CHAPTER III - WARFARE
1. Foreign Conquests and Colonisations
2. Military Ranks, Orders, and Services
3. Arms, Offensive and Defensive
4. Strategy, Tactics, and Modes of Fighting

CHAPTER IV - THE BREHON LAWS
1. The Brehons
2. The Senchus Mor and Other Books of Law
3. Suitability of the Brehon Laws
4. Structure of Society
5. The Laws relating to Land

1. Construction, Shape, and Size
2. Interior Arrangements and Sleeping Accommodation
3. Outer Premises and Defence
4. Domestic Vessels
5. Royal Residences

CHAPTER XVII - FOOD, FUEL, AND LIGHT: PUBLIC HOSTELS
1. Meals in General
2. Drink
3. Cooking
4. Flesh Meat and Its Accompaniments
5. Milk and Its Products
6. Corn and Its Preparation
7. Honey
8. Vegetables and Fruit
9. Fuel and Light
10. Free Public Hostels

CHAPTER XVIII - DRESS AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT
1. The Person and the Toilet
2. Dress
3. Personal Ornaments
4. Rough Classified List of the Gold Objects in the National Museum, Dublin

CHAPTER XIX - AGRICULTURE AND PASTURAGE
1. Fences
2. Land, Crops, and Tillage
3. Some Farm Animals
4. Herding, Grazing, Milking

CHAPTER XX - WORKERS IN WOOD, METAL, AND STONE
1. Chief Materials
2. Builders
3. Brasiers and Founders
4. The Blacksmith and His Forge
5. Carpenters, Masons, and Other Craftsmen
6. Protection of Crafts and Social Position of Craftsmen

CHAPTER XXI - CORN MILLS AND QUERNS
1. Mills
2. Querns and Grain Rubbers

CHAPTER XXII - TRADES AND INDUSTRIES CONNECTED WITH CLOTHING
1. Wool and Woollen Fabrics
2. Flax and Its Preparation
3. Dyeing
4. Sewing and Embroidery
5. Tanning and Tanned Leather

CHAPTER XXIII - MEASURES, WEIGHTS, AND MEDIUMS OF EXCHANGE
1. Length and Area
2. Capacity
3. Weight
4. Standards of Value and Mediums of Exchange
5. Time

CHAPTER XXIV - LOCOMOTION AND COMMERCE
1. Roads, Bridges, and Causeways
2. Chariots and Cars
3. Horse-Riding
4. Communication by Water
5. Foreign Commerce

CHAPTER XXV - PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES, SPORTS, AND PASTIMES
1. The Great Conventions and Fairs
2. The Fair of Carman
3. General Regulations for Meetings
4. Some Animals connected with Hunting and Sport
5. Races
6. Chase and Capture of Wild Animals
7. Caman or Hurling, and Other Athletic Games
8. Chess
9. Jesters, Jugglers, and Gleemen

CHAPTER XXVI - VARIOUS SOCIAL CUSTOMS AND OBSERVANCES
1. Salutation
2. Pledging, Lending, and Borrowing
3. Provision for Old Age and Destitution
4. Love of Nature and of Natural Beauty
5. Something further about Animals
6. Animals as Pets
7. The Cardinal Points
8. The Wind
9. The Sea
10. Bishop Ultan and the Orphans

CHAPTER XXVII - DEATH AND BURIAL
1. Wills
2. Funeral Obsequies
3. Modes of Burial
4. Cemeteries
5. Sepulchral Monuments

INDEX

CHAPTER V - PAGANISM
1. Druids: Their Functions and Powers [see extract]
2. Points of Agreement and Differences between Irish and Gaulish Druids
3. Sorcerers and Sorcery
4. Mythology: Gods, Goblins, and Phantoms
5. Worship of Idols
6. Worship of the Elements
7. The Pagan Heaven and a Future State
8. Turning Deisiol or Sunwise
9. The Ordeal
10. The Evil Eye
11. Geasa, or Prohibitions [see extract]

CHAPTER VI - CHRISTIANITY
1. Christianity before St. Patrick’s Arrival
2. The Three Orders of Irish Saints
3. The First Order: Patrician Secular Clergy
4. The Second Order: Monastic Clergy
5. The Third Order: Anchorites or Hermits, and Hermit Communities
6. Buildings, and other Material Requisites

CHAPTER VII - LEARNING AND EDUCATION
1. Learning in Pagan Times: Ogham
2. Monastic Schools
3. Lay Schools
4. Some General Features of both Classes of Schools
5. The Men of Learning
6. Honours and Rewards for Learning
7. The Knowledge of Science

CHAPTER VIII - IRISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
1. Divisions and Dialects of Celtic
2. Writing, and Writing Materials
3. Ancient Libraries
4. Existing Books
5. Irish Poetry and Prosody

CHAPTER IX - ECCLESIASTICAL AND RELIGIOUS WRITINGS

CHAPTER X - ANNALS, HISTORIES, AND GENEALOGIES
1. How the Annals were compiled
2. Tests of Accuracy
3. Principal Books of the Annals
4. Histories: Genealogies: Dinnsenchus

CHAPTER XI - HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC TALES
1. Classes, Lists, and Numbers
2. Chronological Cycles of the Tales
3. General Character of the Tales
4. Story-Telling and Recitation

CHAPTER XII - ART
1. Penwork and Illumination
2. Gold, Silver, and Enamel, as Working Materials
3. Artistic Metal Work
4. Stone Carving

CHAPTER XIII - MUSIC
1. History
2. Musical Instruments
3. Characteristics, Classes, Styles
4. Modern Collections of Ancient Irish Music

CHAPTER XIV - MEDICINE AND MEDICAL DOCTORS
1. Medical Doctors
2. Medical Manuscripts
3. Diseases
4. Treatment

1. Marriage
2. Position of Women and Children
3. Fosterage
4. Family Names