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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
    ;
  • 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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