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SAILING ON A STONE

1
Dr. M. D. Max, Geological Survey of Ireland (personal
communication
).

2
M. D. Max et al.,
Preliminary
Report
on
the
Geology
of
the
North-
West
Approaches
to
Galway
Bay,
Geological Survey of Ireland RS 75/3.

3
P.D. Ryan, M. D. Max, and T. Kelly, “The petrochemistry of the basic volcanic rocks of the South Connemara Group (Ordovician), Western Ireland,”
Geological Magazine
Vol. CXX, Ser. 2 (1983).

4
Dr. M. D. Max (personal communication).

5
Tim Robinson,
Mapping
South
Connemara,
Parts 1–29 (
Roundstone
, 1985).

6
Magradin’s
Vita
S.
Endei,
in John Colgan’s
Acta
Sanctorum
Hiberniae
(Louvain, 1645; facs. reprint Dublin, 1947).

7
R. O’Flaherty,
West
or
H-Iar
Connaught.

8
O’Donovan,
Ordnance
Survey
Letters
.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LIMESTONE AND GRANITE

1
C. R. Browne, “The ethnography of Garumna and Lettermullen,”
R.I.A.Proc.
Vol. V, Ser. 3 (1899).

2
Colm P. Ó hlarnáin, “Ábhar na Bó” in
Gleann
an
Chuain
(Dublin, 1978).

3
Colm P. Ó hIarnáin, “An Bádoir Santach” in
Gleann
an
Chuain.

4
Hal Sisk, “Dutch influence on Irish small craft,”
Cultura
Maritima
(Autumn 1974).

THE FEAST OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL

1
Béaloideas
Vol
.
XXVII–XXVIII (1959–60).

THE MINISTER’S SAND

1
Barbara Mullen,
Life
Is
My
Adventure
(London, 1937).

THE GENERATIONS

1
J.M. Synge,
The
Aran
Islands.

2
Pat Mullen,
Hero
Breed
(London, 1936).

3
Risteard de Paor,
Úll
i
mBarr
an
Ghéagáin
(Dublin, 1959; translated by Victor Power as
Apple
on
the
Treetop,
Swords, 1980).

DESTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION

1
John de Courcy Ireland,
Ireland’s
Sea
Fisheries
(Dublin, 1981).

2
A. Powell,
op.
cit.

3
Leo Daly,
Oileáin Árann
(Swinford, 1975).

4
Pat Mullen,
Man
of
Aran.

5
Richard J. Scott,
The
Galway
Hooker
(Swords, 1983).

POINT OF ARRIVAL

1
John Ridgeway and Chay Blyth,
A
Fighting
Chance
(London, 1966).

2
Leo Daly,
op.
cit
.

THE BAY OF DOUBT

1
E. P. Wright, “Notes on the flora of the Islands of Arran,”
Proc.
Nat.
Hist.
Soc.
of Dublin
Vol
V (1866).

2
H. C. Hart,
A
List
of
Plants
found
in
the
Islands
of Aran
(Dublin, 1875).

3
Robert Ll. Praeger, “Report of Conference and Excursion held at Galway, 1895,”
Irish
Naturalist
Vol
.
IV (1895).

4
D.A. Webb, “Flora of the Aran Islands,”
Journal
of
Life
Sciences,
Royal
Dublin
Society,
Vol. II (1980).

5
A. Powell,
Oileáin
Árann.

6
J. M. Synge,
The
Aran
Islands
.

THE FIELD OF THE CLOAK

1
Manus O’Donnell,
Betha
Coluimb
Chille,
1532 trans. and ed. A. O’Kelleher and G. Schoepperle (Illinois, 1918); this section trans. by Richard Henebry in
Zeitschrift
für
Celtische
Philologie
Vol. X (1914).

CILL ÉINNE: THE VILLAGE

1
Giraldus Cambrensis,
Topographia
Hiberniae.

2
R. O’Flaherty,
West
or
H-Iar
Connaught.

3
Galway
Vindicator
(17 April 1880).

AIRCÍN: THE CASTLE

1
Magradin,
Vita
S.
Endei,
quoted in translation in O’Donovan,
Ordnance
Survey
Letters.

2
Gearóid Mac Niocaill,
Ireland
Before
the
Vikings
(Dublin, 1972).

3
Hardiman,
History
of
Galway.

4
E. W. Lynam, “The O’Flaherty Country,”
Studies
(June 1914).

5
Tomás Ó Cillín (former parish priest in Aran),
Short Annals
of Aran
(ms. in Archiepiscopal Library, Tuam; this gives many detailed references to State Papers etc.).

6
Hardimans appendix to R. O’Flaherty,
West
or
H-Iar
Connaught.

7
T. P. Kilfeather,
Ireland,
Graveyard
of
the
Spanish
Armada
(Dublin, 1967).

8
Anne Chambers,
Granuaile,
the
Life
and
Times
of
Grace
O’Malley
(Dublin, 1983).

9
“Fulmar Petrel,”
Grania
Waile
(London, 1895).

10
M. D. O’Sullivan,
Old
Galway
(Galway, 1983).

11
T. V. O’Brien,
History
of the Aran
Islands
(ms. 1945, copies in T.C.D. and the London Library; this gives detailed references to State Papers, the Ormonde ms. and other sources).

12
Rev. Seán O’Riordan, “Rinuccini in Galway,”
Galway
Arch.
and
Hist.
Soc.
Journal
Vol.
XXIII (1948).

13
R. Dunlop,
Ireland
under
the
Commonwealth
(Manchester, 1913).

14
Hardiman,
History
of
Galway
.

AIRCÍN: THE PAWN

1
Peter Beresford Ellis,
Hell
or
Connaught!
The
Cromwellian
Colo
nisation
of
Ireland
1652–1660
(London, 1975).

2
T. V. O’Brien,
op.
cit
.

BONES IN THE SAND

1
Pat Mullen,
Hero
Breed
.

SANDS IN THE WIND

1
Rev. William Kilbride, “Notes on some Antiquities on Aranmore; Part 1, Iararna,”
Jn.H
.
A.A.I
.
Vol. I, Ser. 3 (1868).

2
Frank Mitchell,
The
Irish
Landscape
(London, 1976).

STRAW ISLAND

1
Oliver J. Burke,
The
South
Islands
of Aran
(London, 1887).

2
J. T. Mackay, “A systematic catalogue of rare plants found in Ireland,”
Trans.Dub.Soc.
Vol. V (1805).

EASY GOING

1
Magradin,
op.
cit
.

THE ARAN ISLANDS AND NEIGHBOURING COASTS
  • Achill Island shark fishery,
    1
  • “adventurers” (Cromwellian),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Aer Árann,
    1
  • agents.
    See
    Thompson
  • Aidne (south Galway),
    1
  • Aill an Ára,
    1
  • Aill Bhán, An,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Aill Bhriste, An (Cill Éinne),
    1
  • Aill Bhriste, An (Cill Mhuirbhigh),
    1
  • Aill na mBád,
    1
  • Aill na mBairneach,
    1
  • Aill na Móna,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Aill na nGlasóg,
    1
  • Ailltreacha na Giúise,
    1
  • aireín
    ,
    1
    .
    • See
      also
      Caisleán Aircín
  • Alginate Industries Ltd,
    1
  • Allen, Major John,
    1
  • Altóir, An,
    1
  • Altóir Cholm Cille,
    1
  • Anderson, William,
    1
  • Annals
    of
    the
    Four
    Masters,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Aonghas,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Aragaint an tSraoilleáin,
    1
  • Árainn: derivation of name,
    1
    ;
    • festivals
      ,
      1
      ;
    • general,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    • language,
      1
      ;
    • ruins,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • territorial divisions,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    • topography,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
  • “Ára na Naomh,”
    1
  • Aran Fisheries Co-operative Society,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Arramara Teo.,
    1
  • Arthur, King,
    1
  • Asco
    (cargo boat),
    1
  • Atlantic Hotel,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Bábhún, An,
    1
  • Bád Cholm Cille (Connemara),
    1
  • Bád Fada, An,
    1
  • Bád na Naomh,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Baile na Creige,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    • Micilín Sara,
      1
  • Ballaí Chromaill,
    1
    .
    • See
      also
      Caisleán Aircín
  • Balla na Sáibhéarachta,
    1
  • ballan wrasse (
    ballach
    ),
    1
  • barracks (Cill Éinne, 1691),
    1
    ;
    • An tOileán Iarthach,
      1
      ;
    • constabulary (Cill Mhuirbhigh),
      1
      ;
    • constabulary (Cill Rónáin),
      1
  • Barr Aille,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Barr an Leath-chartúir,
    1
  • Barr na Coise,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Barr na Cora,
    1
  • basking shark,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ;
    • basking shark: lifeboat service,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • in
      Man
      of
      Aran,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Bayly, Captain,
    1
  • Bealach na Carraige,
    1
  • Béal an Phoirt,
    1
  • Belgae,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Bhean Bháite, An,
    1
  • Bhinn Bhuí, An,
    1
    ,
    2
  • billygoat of Binn an Ghlais,
    1
  • Bingham, Sir Richard,
    1
  • Binn an Ghlais,
    1
  • Binn an Iarainn,
    1
  • Binn an Phrúntaigh,
    1
  • Binn an tSléibhe Mhóir,
    1
  • Binn an Turlaigh,
    1
  • Binn na nIasc,
    1
  • birds: bar-tailed godwit,
    1
    ;
    • black guillemot,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • broigheall
      (cormorant),
      1
      ;
    • buff-breasted
      sandpiper,
      1
      ;
    • cailleach
      dhubb
      (shag),
      1
      ;
    • chough,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    • collared dove,
      1
      ;
    • cormorant
      ,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ;
    • crotach
      bhealtaine
      (
      whimbrel
      ),
      1
      ;
    • curlew,
      1
      ;
    • dabchick,
      1
      ;
    • dunlin,
      1
      ;
    • fulmar,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    • gannet,
      1
      ;
    • great black-backed gull,
      1
      ;
    • great northern diver,
      1
      ;
    • greenshank
      ,
      1
      ;
    • guillemot,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    • hawks, in early documents,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • heron,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • hooded crow,
      1
      ;
    • kittiwake,
      1
      ;
    • knot,
      1
      ;
    • mute swan,
      1
      ;
    • peregrine falcon,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • puffin,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • raven,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ;
    • razorbill,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    • redshank
      ,
      1
      ;
    • ringed plover,
      1
      ;
    • rock dove,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • rook,
      1
      ;
    • sanderling
      ,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • shag (green cormorant),
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • turnstone,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • waterhen,
      1
      ;
    • wheatear,
      1
      ;
    • whimbrel
      ,
      1
      ;
    • whooper swan,
      1
  • Black Head,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • black pollack,
    1
  • Blind Sound,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Blyth, Chay,
    1
  • Bodach Crom, An,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Bóithrín an Bhábhúin,
    1
  • Bóithrín na Gairleóige,
    1
  • Bóithrín na Leachtaí,
    1
  • Bolgos (Celtic deity),
    1
  • Bord, An,
    1
  • Bóthar na Naomh (Connemara),
    1
  • boundary walls.
    See
    territorial divisions
  • brachiopod fossils,
    1
  • Brannock Islands,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Bran the pilgrim,
    1
    ,
    2
  • bream,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Brian Boru,
    1
  • Brigid, Saint,
    1
    ,
    2
  • British Association excursion to Aran,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Bronze Age,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Browne, C. R.,
    1
  • Browne, John,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Buaile Ghaeil,
    1
  • buailtreach
    (cowdung),
    1
  • Bun Gabhla,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ;
  • Burke, Col.,
    1
  • Burke, Richard (The Devil’s Hook),
    1
  • Burkes (de Burgos),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Burren, The,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    ,
    14
  • Burton, Frederick William,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Bushe, Amyas,
    1
  • Butler, Richard, Earl of Aran,
    1

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