Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume 3Royal Irish Academy, 1893 - Antiquities |
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Page 102 - I found them to be as follows : — eleven stone cahers ;' three earns ; forty calluraghs, or obsolete burial-grounds, where unbaptized children only are interred ; ten castles ; eighteen artificial caves ; twenty-one churches in ruins, and nine church sites ; two hundred and eighteen cloghauns, or bee-hive-shaped stone houses; sixteen cromleacs ; twelve large stone crosses ; three hundred and seventy-six earthen forts, or raths; one hundred and thirteen gallauns, or immense rude standing stones...
Page 622 - The floor is thickly strewed with fresh rushes, and stripping themselves entirely, the whole family lie down at once and together, covering themselves with blankets, if they have them, if not, with their day clothing, but they lie down decently, and in order ; the eldest daughter next the wall farthest from the door, then all the sisters, according to their ages ; next the mother, father, and sons in succession, and then the strangers, whether the travelling pedlar, or tailor or beggar ; thus the...
Page 387 - The throne was formed of solid gold, incrusted over with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. Two peacocks stood upon it with their tails expanded, which were studded with various jewels to represent the life. Between the peacocks stood a parrot, of the ordinary size, cut out of one emerald. There were also two nosegays, consisting of various sorts of flowers, all of beaten gold enamelled. The twelve columns that upheld the canopy were set round by rows of pearl ; and at each side of the throne...
Page 188 - tall and slender, of a whitely complexion, of a flaxen and smooth hair, of behaviour mild and temperate, of speech good and deliberate, greatly reverenced not only by his own men, but generally of all the whole company.
Page 360 - In some places the story has its believers, who would no more kill a seal, or eat of a slaughtered one, than they would of a human Coneely.
Page 483 - Scharff2, from a study of the freshwater fishes and molluscs, is of opinion that " Ireland was in later Tertiary times connected with Wales in the south and Scotland in the north ; whilst a freshwater lake occupied the present central area of the Irish Sea. The southern connection broke down at the beginning of the Plistocene period, the northern connection following soon after. There is no evidence of any subsequent land-connection between Great Britain and Ireland.
Page v - ACADEMY desire it to be understood, that they are not answerable for any opinion, representation of facts, or train of reasoning, that may appear in the following papers.
Page 415 - Then] Patrick knew that there was no sin between them, saying, " Let men and women be apart, so that we may not be found to give opportunity to the weak, and so that by us the Lord's name be not blasphemed, which be far from us ! '' And thus he left them, with Bri Leith between them.
Page 288 - The third, viz. that the squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances...