Notes
1. See the Irish treatise on Irish Metre from the Book of Ballymote, translated and annotated by the Rev. B. McCarthy, D.D., in the Todd Lecture Series, vol, iii. pp.98-141.
2. Calendar of Aengus, p.17.
3. Lect. on Manners and Customs, i. 167.
4. View of the State of Ireland, ed. 1809, p.124.
5. See Four Masters, i., Introd. li. It is, however, asserted by Dr. Healy that the words ‘Scotticae gentis’ — of the Scotic or Irish nation - do not refer to Celestivis at all, but to Pelagius himself. If this be so, the above argument falls to the ground. (Ireland’s Ancient Schools and Scholars, p.39.)
6. See Petrie’s Tara, p.47.
7. Petrie’s Tara, 38.
8. Joyce, Old Celtic Romances, Preface.
9. The pieces mentioned through this chapter will be described in detail in the nest three chapters.
10. Trans. R. I. Acad. 1838.
11. Reeves, Eccl. Antiqq. 153.
12. See Petrie’s account of all this in O’Donovan’s Introd. to the Four Masters, vol. i.
13. Todd, St. Patrick Apostle of Ireland, p.133 note.
14. Joyce, Old Celtic Romances, Preface.
15. Brehon Law, ii. 89.
16. lbid. iii. 305.
17. Ibid. i. 25.
18. Brehon Laws, i. 3 et seq.
19. Brehon Laws, i, 17; iii. 29.
20. Maine, Hist, of Anc. Inst.
21. Brehon Laws, i. 23, 25.
22. Book of Rights, Introd. vi.
23. Ibid. xxv.
24. Brehon Laws, i. 51: iii. 3.
25. Brehon Laws, iv. 227; for Adamnan’s Law see Part II. chap, iv.
26.Maine, Anc. Inst. 24.
27. Richey, Brehon Laws, iv Introd.
28. Maine, Anc. Inst. 19.
29. Students History of England, by S. R. Gardiner, ed. 1892, p.32.
30. Brehon Laws, iii., Richey in Introd, cxxi.
31. Ibid. iii. Introd. Ixxxii.
32. Brehon Laws, iii. 327.
33. Ibid., i, 209, 211.
34. Ibid. i. 289, 291.
35. Ibid. i. 269.
36. Ibid. i. 211; iii. 327.
37. Ibid. i. 103; iii. 327.
38. Brehon Laws, i. 265, 287.
39. Ibid. iii. ,327.
40. lbid i. i05, 107, ii. 41.
41. Ibid. i. 85.
42. Ibid. ii. 119, 121.
43. Brehon Laws, i. 257.
44. Ibid. ii. 71; iii. 147.
45. Ibid. i. 105.
46. Ibid, iii., Richey in Introd. cxxxvi.-vii.; Maine, Anc. Ins. 282.
Brehon Laws, i. 113.
Ibid. i. 119; ii. 65.
49. Stokes’s Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, clxxvii., clxxVIII 557 and 560 note.
50. Brehon Laws, i. 113.
51. Maine, Anc. Inst. 40, 297.
52. Ibid. 171.
53. Stokes’s Tripartite Life, 43.
54. Brehon Laws, iii. 99.
55. Brehon Laws, iii. 69; iv. 245.
56. Ibid. iii. 69.
57. Brehon Laws, iii. 382 note, 383.
58. Ibid. iii. 349.
59. Ibid. iii., Richey in Introd. cxi.
60. Maine, Anc. Inst. 23
61. Brehon Laws, i. Introd. xlix.
62. Brehon Laws, iv. Introd. cxcix. The description of the whole social arrangement on which the following account is chiefly based is in the law tract called Crith Gabldach: Brehon Laws, iv. 297.
63. Brehon Laws, iv. 305.
64. Brehon Laws, i. 47, 61.
65. For full account of the Brugaid or Brugh-fer, see Brehon Laws, iv. 311, 313, 315.
66. Brehon Laws, iv. 61, 289.
67. Brehon Laws, ii. 283; iii. 55.
68. Ibid., ii. 279, 281.
69. See Part II., Chap. ii. of this book.
70. Philips’ Atlas and Geog. of Irel.. by p.W. Joyce, LL.D., 8.
71. Spenser, View, 12.
72. Spenser, View, ed. 1809, p.10; Brehon Laws, ii. 279.
73. Spenser, View, p.11. For an exhaustive account by O’Donovan of the inauguration of Irish kings, see his Hy Fiachrach, pp.425 to 432.
74. Brehon Laws, iv. 51.
75. Four Masters, A.D. 14.
76. Brehon Laws, iv. 53.
77. Wars of the Gaels with the Galls, 133.

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