PART I.

ORIGIN, CONSTRUCTION, AND CIVILIZATION OF THE ANCIENT LACUSTRINE HABITATIONS OF IRELAND, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THEIR REMAINS AND THE ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN OR AROUND THEM.

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INTRODUCTORY, 1-23

Wooded nature of the country. Wild animals. Climatic changes. Lakes. Lake-dwellings of all countries.

LAKE-DWELLINGS OF IRELAND, 23-55

Crannog, derivation of the word; a common townland name. Submarine crannog. Favourite sites for crannogs; mode of construction. Stone lake-dwellings. Theory of crannogs being only temporary refuges untenable. Palisades. Dwellings. Gangways to crannogs. Canoes. Paddles. Anchors. Curach. Ingenuity of lake-dwellers. Clothing, &c.

STONE, BRONZE, AND IRON AGES, 55-73

Weapons and tools. Armour. Stone moulds.

FOOD AND VEGETABLE REMAINS, 73-81

Hammer-stones. Mammalia. Butter. Yokes. Piscatory implements.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY, &C., 81-105

Grain-rubbers. Querns. Human remains. Fireplaces on the shore. Pottery. Wooden vessels. Drinking cups. Wooden mallets. “Whorls.” Colouring-matter. Spinning.

ARTICLES OF THE TOILET OR OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT, 105-125

Pins of iron, bronze, bone, and wood, &c. Iron shears and knives. Combs of bone and wood. Bronze tweezers. Stone and bronze ornaments: brooches, penannular rings, circlets, &c. Touchstones. Crucibles. Ornaments of gold and silver. Rings of stone, jet, and glass. Beads of stone, bone, jet, lead, earthenware, wood, and glass.

MUSIC, 125-128

Harps and harp pins, trumpets, &c.

AMUSEMENTS, 128-132

Chess a game of great antiquity in Ireland--anecdotes of; game-board. Counters or discs of bone, perforated and unperforated. Stone chessman.

INSCRIPTIONS, 132-135

Ogham, inscriptions in.--Anecdotes of.

MONEY, 135-136

Coins found in crannogs.--Anecdotes of.

HORSE FURNITURE, 136-138

Saddle, bronze cheek-pieces, iron bits, and enamelled plates.

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, 138-145

Decorated bones and plates of bone, bone spoon, spatula-shaped bone, miscellaneous articles found in the crannogs of Randalstown, Lough Guile, Ballykinler, and Cloonfinlough. Bronze and iron objects from Lagore. Iron fishing implements.

HISTORICAL NOTICES OF CRANNOGS, 145-160

Extracts from State documents and the _Irish Annals_, tracing their existence from the seventeenth century back to prehistoric times.