  | PART I. | | ORIGIN, CONSTRUCTION, AND CIVILIZATION OF THE ANCIENT LACUSTRINE HABITATIONS OF IRELAND, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THEIR REMAINS AND THE ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN OR AROUND THEM. | | Page | | Introductory, | 1-23 | | Wooded nature of the country. Wild animals. Climatic changes. Lakes. Lake-dwellings of all countries. | | Lake-dwellings of Ireland, | 23-55 | | Crannog, derivation of the word; a common townland name. Submarine crannog. Favourite sites for crannogs; mode of construction. Stone lake-dwellings. Theory of crannogs being only temporary refuges untenable. Palisades. Dwellings. Gangways to crannogs. Canoes. Paddles. Anchors. Curach. Ingenuity of lake-dwellers. Clothing, &c. | | | Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, | 55-73 | | Weapons and tools. Armour. Stone moulds. | | | Food and Vegetable Remains, | 73-81 | | Hammer-stones. Mammalia. Butter. Yokes. Piscatory implements. | | | Household Economy, &c., | 81-105 | | Grain-rubbers. Querns. Human remains. Fireplaces on the shore. Pottery. Wooden vessels. Drinking cups. Wooden mallets. “Whorls.” Colouring-matter. Spinning. | | | Articles of the Toilet or of Personal Adornment, | 105-125 | | Pins of iron, bronze, bone, and wood, &c. Iron shears and knives. Combs of bone and wood. Bronze tweezers. Stone and bronze ornaments: brooches, penannular rings, circlets, &c. Touchstones. Crucibles. Ornaments of gold and silver. Rings of stone, jet, and glass. Beads of stone, bone, jet, lead, earthenware, wood, and glass. | | | Music, | 125-128 | | Harps and harp pins, trumpets, &c. | | | Amusements, | 128-132 | | Chess a game of great antiquity in Ireland—anecdotes of; game-board. Counters or discs of bone, perforated and unperforated. Stone chessman. | | | Inscriptions, | 132-135 | | Ogham, inscriptions in.—Anecdotes of. | | | Money, | 135-136 | | Coins found in crannogs.—Anecdotes of. | | | Horse Furniture, | 136-138 | | Saddle, bronze cheek-pieces, iron bits, and enamelled plates. | | | Miscellaneous Articles, | 138-145 | | Decorated bones and plates of bone, bone spoon, spatula-shaped bone, miscellaneous articles found in the crannogs of Randalstown, Lough Guile, Ballykinler, and Cloonfinlough. Bronze and iron objects from Lagore. Iron fishing implements. | | | Historical Notices of Crannogs, | 145-160 | | Extracts from State documents and the Irish Annals, tracing their existence from the seventeenth century back to prehistoric times. | | | PART II. | | DESCRIPTION AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ALL KNOWN LACUSTRINE SITES IN IRELAND, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN OR AROUND THEM. | | Province of Ulster, | 163-203 | | Province of Leinster, | 204-211 | | Province of Munster, | 212-220 | | Province of Connaught, | 221-249 | | INDEX, | 251-268 |
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