A Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law ; Religion, Learning, and Art ; Trades, Industries, and Commerce ; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, Volume 2

Patrick Weston Joyce

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - Ireland - 651 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER XIX: 3
• MARRIAGE: 4
• Position OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN: 8
• FOSTERAGE: 14
• FAMILY NAMES: 19
• Do: 40
• 3: 43
• 14: 50
• CHAPTER XX: 57
• The House: 60
• Section: 66
• PAGE: 73
• CONSTRUCTION SHAPE AND SIZE: 75
• INTERIOR ARRANGEMENTS AND SLEEPING ACCOMMODA TION: 98
• OUTER PREMISES AND DEFENCE 4 DOMESTIC VESSELS 5 ROYAL RESIDENCES: 100
• 79: 104
• COOKING: 122
• Flesh MEAT AND ITS ACCOMPANIMENTS: 127
• MILK AND ITS PRODUCTS: 136
• CORN AND ITS PREPARATION 7 HONEY: 147
• VEGETABLES AND FRUIT: 148
• 349: 153
• FUEL AND LIGHT: 161
• Ancient bronze lamp: 165
• FREE PUBLIC HOSTELS: 166
• Bronze figures of ecclesiastics: 176
• 104: 195
• Do: 201
• Section: 207
• THE PERSON AND THE TOILET 2 DRESS: 213
• PERSONAL ORNAMENTS 4 Rough CLASSIFIED LIST OF GOLD OBJECTS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 176 189: 222
• Specimen of plaited hair: 223
• Angel from Book of Kells: 229
• 263: 234
• Great Bunnedoat in Trinity: 244
• Crowned Irish king: 257
• CHAPTER XXIII: 264
• FENCES: 266
• Pillarstone in a rath: 267
• LAND CROPS AND TILLAGE: 269
• Ancient Irish bronze reapinghook: 273
• SOME FARM ANIMALS: 277
• HERDING GRAZING MILKING: 281
• Shrine of St Patricks Frontis: 282
• CHAPTER XXIV: 286
• Yoke for oxen or horses: 288
• Mould for celt: 294
• Stone hatchet: 298
• 167B Cormacs Chapel Rock: 301
• Bronze hammer: 304
• bellows: 307
• BUILDERS: 323
• BRASIERS AND FOUNDERS 4 THE BLACKSMITH AND HIS FORGE 5 CARPENTERS MASONS AND OTHER CRAFTSMEN 6 PROTECTION ...: 324
• CHAPTER XXV: 326
• CORN MILLS Section 1 HISTORY: 330
• THE Eight PARTS OF A Mill: 335
• SMALL Mills: 338
• DRYING AND GRINDING: 341
• COMMON PROPERTY IN MILLS: 344
• QUERNS AND GRAIN RUBBERS: 345
• WOOL AND WOOLLEN FABRICS: 349
• FLAX AND ITS PREPARATION: 354
• DYEING: 356
• SEWING AND EMBROIDERY: 363
• 114: 367
• WORKERS IN LEATHER AND THE ARTICLES THEY MADE 349 354 356 363: 368
• CAPACITY: 376
• Weight: 381
• 330: 382
• 177: 384
• STANDARDS OF VALUE AND MEDIUMS OF EXCHANGE 5 TIME: 387
• 127: 388
• ENUMERATION 371 375 377: 392
• 141: 393
• CHARIOTS AND CARS: 401
• HORSERIDING: 410
• 239: 416
• COMMUNICATION BY WATER: 422
• 335: 423
• FOREIGN COMMERCE: 426
• CHAPTER XXIX: 434
• 215: 435
• THE FAIR OF CARMAN WEXFORD: 441
• Do: 444
• GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR MEETINGS: 447
• SOME ANIMALS CONNECTED WITH HUNTING AND SPORT: 451
• Trim Castle: 461
• RACES: 463
• CHASE AND CAPTURE OF WILD ANIMALS: 466
• CAMÁN OR HURLING AND OTHER ATHLETIC GAMES: 474
• 338: 479
• Chess: 480
• JESTERS JUGGLERS AND GLEEMEN: 481
• 144: 486
• VARIOUS SOCIAL CUSTOMS AND OBSERVANCES: 488
• PLEDGING LENDING AND BORROWING: 491
• PROVISION FOR OLD AGE AND DESTITUTION: 493
• LOVE OF NATURE AND OF NATURAL BEAUTY: 497
• Six STAGES OF LIFE: 509
• BLOODCOVENANT 510 L: 510
• CREMATIONASHES THROWN INTO WATER: 512
• SOMETHING FURTHER ABOUT ANIMALS: 514
• ANIMALS AS PETS: 516
• The CARDINAL POINTS 520 1: 520
• THE WIND: 521
• THE SEA: 523
• BISHOP ULTAN AND THE ORPHANS 526 Ca 15 PROPHECIES OF IRISH SAINTS: 528
• SUNDRY SMALL MATTERS WORTHY OF NOTICE: 529
• CHAPTER XXXI: 533
• 341: 539
• Do do: 542
• 344: 546
• New Grange: 555
• CEMETERIES 554 Ca 5 SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS: 562
• Carn near Sligo: 563
• Tomb of the Four Maels at: 569
• Gold bead for necklace: 574
• Tomb of Felim OConor king: 579
• APPENDIX: 581
• LIST OF AUTHORITIES CONSULTED AND QUOTED OR REFERRED TO THROUGHOUT THIS WORK: 585
• Castle of Athlone: 588
• 148: 595
• 166: 596
• 345: 602
• INDEX TO THE Two VOLUMES: 611
• 447: 613
• 462: 615
• Gold torque: 616
• 474: 617
• 477: 619
• 481: 621
• Christian stone oratory: 629
• 379: 644

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law ; Religion, Learning, and Art ; Trades, Industries, and Commerce ; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, Volume 2; A Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law ; Religion, Learning, and Art ; Trades, Industries, and Commerce ; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, Patrick Weston Joyce
• Author: Patrick Weston Joyce
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Apr 9, 2008
• Length: 651 pages