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  • Poulnabrone dolmen (Co. Clare),
    1
  • Powell, Antoine,
    Oileáin
    Árann,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Powell, Seán (Baile na Creige),
    1
  • Praeger, Robert Lloyd,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Praiseach Pheige Cuaig (stitch),
    1
  • Presbyterian missioner,
    1
  • Protestantism,
    1
    ;
    • ministers,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • schools,
      1
      ,
      2
  • púca
    (goatish fairy),
    1
    ,
    2
  • púcán
    (small sail-boat),
    1
  • Pupeus, St.,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Queen’s College, Galway,
    1
  • quern-stones,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • rabbits: magical,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    • myxomatosis,
      1
  • Raftery (poet),
    1
  • rainbows,
    1
  • Raith Bresail, synod of,
    1
  • rats and potatoes,
    1
    ,
    2
  • rawhide shoes,
    see
    pampooties
  • Rawlinson, Dr. Richard,
    1
  • rebellion of 1641,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    • see
      also
      Cromwellian period
  • reclamation of land,
    1
  • rectory,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Reilig an Chochaill,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Reilig na nGasúr,
    1
  • relief-committees: in 1846,
    1
    ;
    • in 1861,
      1
      ;
    • in 1880,
      1
  • relief-works,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
  • funding of,
    1
    ;
  • religious controversies at,
    1
  • Relieving Officer,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • rental of islands,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Renvyle (Connemara),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • reservoir,
    1
  • Residence, the,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Rhys, Sir John (Celticist),
    1
  • Richardson, Surgeon,
    1
  • rift-valley,
    1
  • rights-of-way,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Rivers, Elizabeth (artist),
    1
    ,
    2
  • road-building,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Road of the Dishes (Burren),
    1
  • Robinson, Henry (agent),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Robinson, Sir Henry (Local Government Board),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Robinson, Tim: inconclusive career,
    1
    ;
    • literary shortcomings,
      1
      ;
    • money in rubber-mines,
      1
  • Rocks Road,
    1
    ;
    • see
      also
      Bóthar na gCrag
  • Ród Charn Maolín,
    1
  • Ród na Creige Móire,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Ród na gCaiptíní,
    1
  • Róidín an Phúca,
    1
  • Róidín an Turlaigh,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Róidín Chlaí Chox,
    1
  • Róidín Docherty (Róidín Donnellan, Róidín Seoirse),
    1
  • Róidín Mháirtín,
    1
  • Róidín na Síog,
    1
  • Róisí Mhór (midwife),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Rónán, St.,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Ros a’ Mhíl (Connemara),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • rose chafer beetle,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Ros Muc (Connemara),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Roundstone (Connemara),
    1
  • round tower,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Roy (factory worker),
    1
  • Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, visit to Aran,
    1
  • rubbish-dump,
    1
  • ruined cabins, poem about,
    1
  • rye,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    • harvesting,
      1
  • Rynne, Prof. Etienne,
    1
    ,
    2
  • St. Brigid’s (Catholic chapel),
    1
  • St. John’s Day,
    1
  • St. John’s Eve,
    see
    bonfires
  • St. Lawrences: Lady Geraldine Digby,
    1
    ;
    • Sir Thomas, Earl of Howth,
      1
      ;
    • Hon. Thomas Kenelm Digby,
      1
      ,
      2
  • St. Macdara’s Day,
    1
  • St. Macdara’s Island,
    1
  • saints,
    see
    individual names
  • saints’ beds,
    see
    leabaí
  • Saints’ Island (Lough Ree),
    1
  • saints’ “Lives,”
    1
  • St. Thomas’s (Protestant church),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • sally gardens,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Salrock (Connemara),
    1
  • “salting” of digs,
    1
  • Samhain (Hallowe’en),
    1
  • “Saucepans,” the,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • sayings about: Aristotle,
    1
    ;
    • building out to the west,
      1
      ;
    • dividing five eggs,
      1
      ;
    • Eochaill,
      1
      ;
    • fox on your line,
      1
      ;
    • Laetheanta
      na
      Bó
      Riabhaigh
      (Days of Brindled Cow),
      1
      ;
    • peacock’s legs,
      1
      ;
    • straw,
      1
      ;
    • table you couldn’t buy,
      1
      ;
    • “Whoever
      las
      it…,”
      1
  • scailp
    (cleft),
    1
  • Scailp Pháidín Uí Uiginn,
    1
  • Scairbh, An,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • scarps: east/west boundary,
    1
    ;
    • and spring-lines,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • see
      also
      limestone
  • Sceach Mhór, An,
    1
    ,
    2
  • schoolchildren,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • schools: building of,
    1
    ;
    • in chapel,
      1
      ;
    • Irish language,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    • national,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ;
    • Protestant,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    • Scoil na “Jumpers,”
      1
      ;
    • vocational school,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Screigín, An,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Scrios Buaile na bhFeadóg,
    1
  • Scrios Mór, An,
    1
  • scutch grass,
    1
  • Seacht dTeampaill, Na,
    1
  • Séadna
    (Fr. O’Leary),
    1
  • Sea Fencibles,
    1
  • sea-lily fossils,
    1
  • Sealy, Douglas (critic),
    1
  • sean-nós
    (old-style singing),
    1
  • sean-talamh
    (“old land”),
    1
  • settlement pattern,
    1
    ;
    • see
      also
      individual villages
  • Seven Churches, the,
    1
  • “Seven Romans” stone,
    1
    ,
    2
  • shale-and clay-bands,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • shamrock,
    1
  • Shannon, River,
    1
  • Shee, George (aid-donor),
    1
  • sheep, running after,
    1
  • shell-middens,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • shops,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
  • siar
    (west),
    1
  • signal-towers,
    1
    ,
    2
  • silver torc,
    1
  • Sinn Féin,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Skellig Michael,
    1
  • sky-signs,
    1
    ,
    2
  • slab-shrines,
    1
  • slave,
    1
  • Sleepy Hollow (Baile an Dúin),
    1
  • Sliabh Mór, An,
    1
  • Slyne Head,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Smith (trawler agent),
    1
  • smithies: Fearann an Choirce,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • soir
    (east),
    1
  • solution-hollows,
    1
  • Somerville, E. O.,
    1
    ,
    2
  • “Song of the Arranman, The,”
    1
    ,
    2
  • souperism,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    • “Soupers’ List,”
      1
  • spade,
    1
  • Spéicí, Na,
    1
  • Spidéal, An (Spiddle, Connemara),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • spider, rare species of,
    1
  • springs,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
  • Sruthán (Sruffawn),
    1
    ;
  • Sruthán Beag,
    1
  • staighre
    (type of stile),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Stail Yorke (stallion),
    1
    ,
    2
  • standing stones,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    • see
      also
      cross-inscribed slabs and pillars
  • Stanford, Fr.,
    1
  • “Stations, the,”
    1
    ,
    2
  • Stephens, Dr.,
    1
  • stick-fighting,
    1
  • stiles,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • stoat,
    1
    ,
    2
  • stócáil,
    1
    ;
    • see
      also
      reclamation of land
  • Stokes, William, and Whitley Stokes,
    1
  • Stone Age,
    see
    Neolithic period
  • stone-ricks,
    1
  • Stones
    of Aran
    Part I: review,
    1
    ;
    • writing it,
      1
  • Stoney, Prof. George,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Stoney, Dr. James,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • storms,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    • storm-worship,
      1
      ,
      2
  • story-tellers,
    1
    ;
    • see
      also
      Gillan family (Seán) and Máirtín Ó Conaola
  • Strafford, Earl of,
    1
  • straw, measures of,
    1
  • Streamstown (Connemara),
    1
    ,
    2
  • “street,”
    1
    ,
    2
  • “street-villages,”
    1
  • stye, cure for,
    1
  • Suicín, An,
    1
  • Sunda Caoch, An,
    1
    ,
  • sun-fish (basking shark),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • sun-sand-&-sex,
    1
  • sunsets,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Swift, Dean,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Symons, Arthur,
    1
  • Synge, Rev. Alexander,
    1
  • Synge, J.M.,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    ,
    14
    ,
    15
    ,
    16
    ,
    17
    ,
    18
  • Syringopora
    (fossil coral),
    1

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