 ... by night, and with a candle light kill abundance of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather, people must turn their cattell out of the islands, and the corn failes. They have noe fuell but cow-dung dryed with the...  Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy - Page 7621893Full view - About this book
 | Roderic O'Flaherty - Connacht (Ireland) - 1846 - 538 pages
...the caves of cliffts by night, and with a candle light kill abundance"1 of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather,...failes. They have noe fuell but cow-dung" dryed with where it is said to be used for pickling and preserves. Ring-root or sea-holy. — Eryngium maritimum,... | |
 | Roderic O'Flaherty - Connacht (Ireland) - 1846 - 534 pages
...the caves of cliffts by night, and with a candle light kill abundance" ' of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather,...corn failes. They have noe fuell but cow-dung" dryed where it is said to be used for pickling and preserves. Ring-root or sea-holy Eryngiwn maritimum, in... | |
 | Irish archaeological and Celtic society - 1846 - 524 pages
...the caves of cliffts by night, and with a candle light kill abundance i " of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather,...corn failes. They have noe fuell but cow-dung" dryed where it is said to be used for pickling and preserves. Ring-root or sea-holy.— Eryngium maritimum,... | |
 | Roderic O'Flaherty - Connacht (Ireland) - 1846 - 526 pages
...Scotland, p. 293 ; and his Voyage to St. Kilda, p. 105. n Coie-dung. — In Irish boicpeaih. Large with the sun, unless they bring turf in from the western continent. They have Ctogharu, a kind of building of stones layd one upon another, which are brought to a roof... | |
 | John Lynch - 1848 - 222 pages
...extraordinary dry weather, people must torn their cattell off the Islands, and the corn fails. They have no fuell but cow-dung, dryed with the sun, unless they bring turf in from the western continent. They have Cloghans, a kind of building of stones, layed one upon another, which are brought to a roof... | |
 | John Lynch - 1848 - 220 pages
...into the caves of clifts by night, and with a candle-light, kill abundance of them. Here are severall wells and pooles ; yet in extraordinary dry weather, people must turn their cattell off the Islands, and the corn fails. They have no fuell but cow-dung, dryed with the sun, unless they... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 688 pages
...written 1684, he says of the inhabitants of the Isles of Aran off Oalway Bay, " They have no fnell but cow-dung dryed with the sun, unless they bring turf in from the western continent " (Ireland), and in a note the editor says : "In IrishBoithreamh. Large stacks (entacha) of this savoury... | |
 | Eugene O'Curry - Ireland - 1873 - 748 pages
...into the caves of clifls by night, and with a candle-light kill abundance of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather,...out of the islands, and the corn failes. They have no fuell but cow-dung dryed with the sun, unless they bring turf in from the western continent. They... | |
 | Eugene O'Curry - Ireland - 1873 - 748 pages
...into the caves or chfls by night, and with a candle-light kill abundance of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather,...out of the islands, and the corn failes. They have no fuell but cow-dung dryed with the sun, unless they bring turf in from the western continent. They... | |
 | Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - Ireland - 1895 - 454 pages
...into the caves of cliffts by night, and with a candle light kill abundance of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather,...unless they bring turf in from the western continent." The islands suffer much from the wild storms of the Atlantic, and trees exist only in a few sheltered... | |
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