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factory (Eoghanacht),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
Faherty, Cáit,
1
Fahey, Fr. (curate),
1
,
2
,
3
fairies,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;
- dwellings,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- and illness,
  1
  ;
- path,
  1
Fair Rents Act of 1881,
1
Famine, the Great,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
;
- and proselytism,
  1
  ;
- relief-committee,
  1
Fán an Uisce,
1
Fanchea, St.,
1
Farragher, Rev. Murtagh,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
;
- house bombed,
  1
  ;
- and
  Skerrett,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
“
fataí,
na
”
(main meal),
1
,
2
,
3
Fathach na Coille,
1
fearachaí
(mannikins),
1
Fearann an Choirce (Oatquarter): fields,
1
,
- houses,
  1
  ;
- in the Famine,
  1
  ;
- short-cuts,
  1
Fearann na gCeann,
1
Fear
na
bhFataí
(the potato-man),
1
Fear
na
Mapaí
(the man of the maps),
1
Fear
na
Slata
Mara
(the searod-man),
1
Feast of the Assumption,
1
,
2
Ferguson, Sir Samuel,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
“Ferocious O’Flahertys, The,”
1
,
2
;
- see
  also
  O’Flahertys
fever outbreak (1863),
1
Fhaircheallaigh, Una Ní (O’Farrelly),
1
Fianna Fáil, Aran branch,
1
fields: in Fearann an Choirce,
1
;
- field-system,
  1
  ;
- number of,
  1
  ,
  2
Finck, Franz Nikolaus (linguist),
1
,
2
Finnian the Younger, St.,
1
Fionn Mac Cumhaill,
1
,
2
Fir Bolg,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
Fireball Macnamara,
1
fishing: development of fleet,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- herring,
  1
  ;
- long-line,
  1
  ;
- pre-Famine fleet,
  1
- trawlers,
  1
fissures,
see
limestone
Fitzpatrick, Bridget,
1
Fitzpatricks (of Clare and Cill Éinne): Edmund,
1
;
- history,
  1
  ;
- and Knockbane,
  1
  ;
- memorials to,
  1
  ;
- Richard (of Cill Éinne),
  1
  ;
- Richard, seneschal of Ibrickan,
  1
Flaherty, Brian (gardener),
1
,
2
Flaherty, Mary, and Rev. Kilbride,
1
Flaherty, Robert (film-maker),
1
,
2
,
3
Flaithbheartach (ancestor of O’Flahertys),
1
Flanagan, Joe (Seosaimh Ó Flannagáin),
1
,
2
Flann Sinna, High King,
1
flax: cultivation ridges,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- spinning,
  1
Fleming, Patrick (Louvain),
1
Fleming family: Nora, and the cuckoo,
1
;
- Thomas, of the IRA,
  1
  ,
  2
flora: number of species,
1
,
2
;
- see
  under
  plants
fóidín
mearbhaill
(stray sod),
1
Folan, Colie,
1
Folan family,
1
folklore:
see
Aristotle, evil eye, fairies, fox legend, ghosts, Hy Breasail, treasure, etc.
folk medicine,
1
,
2
Fonte, Fr. Gaspar (abbot),
1
Ford, John (film director),
1
“fosleac” (stone cell),
1
,
2
fossils: brachiopod,
1
,
2
;
- corals,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- nautiloid,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- sea-lily,
  1
fountain-pen cap,
1
Fox, Sir Stephen,
1
,
2
,
3
fox legend,
1
Franciscan House of Studies (Killiney),
1
Franciscan monastery,
1
Franncach
Sheáinín
Bhile
(Artaud),
1
Freeman’s
Journal,
1
French, Joan (of Spiddle),
1
,
2
French, Patrick (trustee for Bishop Digby),
1
French officer in cave,
1
Fuaidh castle (Oughterard),
1
fulacht fia
(cooking-site),
1
funerary cairns,
1
,
2
funerary monuments: Cill Éinne,
1
,
2
;
- Cill Mhuirbhigh,
  1
  ;
- Eochaill,
  1
  ;
- Eoghanacht,
  1
  ;
- Fearann an Choirce,
  1
  ;
- mainland,
  1
Fursey, St.,
1
,
2

gabhal
(fork),
1
Gaelic League,
1
;
- Aran branch,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- and Breandán Ó hEithir,
  1
Gaeltacht,
1
,
2
Gaeltarra Éirinn,
1
Gahan, Muriel,
1
Gairdín na Sailí,
1
Gairmscoil Éinne (vocational school),
1
Galway, early history of,
1
;
- wardens of,
  1
Galway Bay Steamboat Company,
1
Galway
Vindicator,
1
,
2
,
3
Ganly family: Maggie,
1
,
2
;
- Pat,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ;
- Thomas (engineer),
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- Thomas (of the Land League),
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ;
- Rev. William,
  1
gaps (in walls),
1
Garnett, Edward,
1
Garomna (Connemara),
1
Garraí an tSeanballa,
1
Garraí an tSeantí,
1
garra
í
bán,
garra
í
loirg
(fallow and lea land),
1
Garraí Joe,
1
Garraí na Ceártan,
1
Gaultier, Jean Paul,
1
geansa
í
(sweater),
1
General, the (horse),
1
Georgiana
(fishing smack),
1
ghosts,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
Giant of the Wood,
1
,
2
Gibbons, Michael (archaeologist),
1
Gibbons, Rev. Michael, PP,
1
,
2
Gibson (coastguard) and family,
1
Gigantoproductus
(brachiopod),
1
Gilbert Cottage,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
Gillan family,
1
;
- Bríd (Bn. Uí Dhireáin),
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ;
- Róisí Mhór,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- Séan (storyteller),
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
Gill family,
1
,
2
;
- Bobby,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- Katie,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- Máire (Bn. Uí Chonghaile),
  1
  ;
- Peter (driver to Dr. Stoney),
  1
  ,
  2
Giollagóri (abbot),
1
glaciation,
1
,
2
;
- erratic boulders,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- striae,
  1
  ;
- till,
  1
gleáinn
íní
(small glens),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
Gleannachán, An,
1
,
2
Gleann Glaise (Joyce Country),
1
Gleann Ruairí Óg,
1
Glencolmcille,
1
goats,
1
;
- kids,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
Golam Head (signal tower, Connemara),
1
,
2
gold,
see
treasure
golf course, proposed,
1
Gort an Bhiolair,
1
Gort an Éadáin,
1
Gort na gCapall: boundary with Cill Mhuirbhigh,
1
;
- devilment from,
  1
  ;
- Fitzpatricks,
  1
  ;
- foundation of,
  1
  ;
- saints’ boundary,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- short-cuts,
  1
  ;
- situation,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- story about,
  1
  ;
- turlough,
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
- women of,
  1
  ;
- see
  also
  O’Flahertys
Goulden, John (archaeologist),
1
,
2
,
3
Gráinne,
see
Diarmaid and Gráinne
Gráinne Ní Mháille (Grace O’Malley),
1
granite boulders: for sharpening spades,
1
;
- used in gaps,
  1
  ;
- see
  also
  perched boulders
Grecraige, the (tribe),
1
Green, Rev. W. S.,
1
green flash,
1
Gregory, Lady,
1
,
2
Gregory, St.,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
Grióir, An,
1
grotto,
1
“gryke,”
1
;
- see
  also
  limestone
Guaire, King,
1
,
2
Guinness family: Capt. Lee and Lady Henrietta Eliza,
1
;
- monkey,
  1
gunboats,
1

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