1 The terms Dryad and Druid may be compared as containing the same root and reference.

2 Now called Moytura.

3 There is a strange idea current in Europe at the present time that one of the most remarkable potentates now living has this fatal gift and power of the Evil Eye.

4 In Ancient Egypt the ivy was sacred to Osiris, and a safeguard against evil.

5 The correct names for these islands are Innis-Erk (the Island of St. Erk), and Innis-bo-finn (the Island of the White Cow).

6 The fairies have a right to whatever is spilt or falls upon the ground.

7 Leprehaun, or Leith Brogan, means the “Artisan of the Brogae.”

8 The ancient serpent-idol was called in Irish, “The Great Worm.” St. Patrick destroyed it, and had it thrown into the sea. There are no serpents now to be found in Ireland, not even grass snakes or scorpions.

9 Extract from a letter by the Marchioness of Waterford, on the Currahmore Crystal.

10 This word “fibulÆ” is a heathenish and imported term, quite foreign to the Irish tongue. There is no other word known in the Irish language to designate a brooch, be it of bone or be it of gold, than Dealg, which signifies a thorn.

11 See Sir William Wilde’s work, “Lough Corrib: its Shores and Islands,” where a drawing of this inscription is given.

12 “The History of Dublin.” 3 vols. By J. T. Gilbert, M.R.I.A. Dublin.

13 These relics of a civilization three thousand years old, may still be gazed upon by modern eyes in the splendid and unrivalled antiquarian collection of the Royal Irish Academy. The golden circlets, the fibulas, torques, bracelets, rings, &c., worn by the ancient race, are not only costly in value, but often so singularly beautiful in the working out of minute artistic details, that modern art is not merely unable to equal them, but unable even to comprehend how the ancient workers in metals could accomplish works of such delicate, almost microscopic minuteness of finish.

14 The expression of Tacitus.

15 This is the Latinized form of the original word.

16 The Danes were never more than a colony in Ireland.

17 Hogan, the great historical sculptor of Ireland, has illustrated this era of Irish history by a fine group, heroic and poetical in idea, as well as beautiful in execution, like every work that proceeded from the gifted mind of this distinguished artist.

18 The Irish Celt to the Irish Norman, from “Poems,” by Aubrey de Vere.

19 Grace’s Annals. Rev. R. Butler’s translation.

20 Extracts from the Address to the Anthropological Section of the British Association. Belfast, 1874. By Sir William Wilde, M.D., M.R.I.A., Chevalier of the Swedish Order of the North Star.