Category: History - Other
Monuments of Druidism--Druids--Cairns--Cromlechs--Baal, worship of--Zodiacal rings--Sacred fires--Druidical religion--Sir Edward Coke, on--Groves--Immense fortresses--Dun Ængus--Its situation, dimensions, etc.--Dun Conor--Christian remains--St. Enda, romantic story of--His hap...
Monuments of Druidism--Druids--Cairns--Cromlechs--Baal, worship of--Zodiacal rings--Sacred fires--Druidical religion--Sir Edward Coke, on--Groves--Immense fortresses--Dun Ængus-...
3. CHAPTER III.Aran, 14th-18th centuries--A.D. 1308. O'Brien, lord of the isles--In consideration of twelve tuns of wine annually engages to protect the trade of Galway--A.D. 1334. Aran plunde...
4. CHAPTER IV.Noble character of Aranite peasantry--Letters, 1841, by Dr. Petrie; 1852, by Sir Francis Head, K.C.B.; 1875, by Frank Thorpe Porter, Esq., B.L.; 1886, by Mr. R. F. Mullery, cler...
5. CHAPTER V.Healthful islands--Old age in--Land Commission in Aran--Aran fisheries--Letters, 1886, from Sir Thomas F. Brady, fishery commissioner, on; from C.T. Redington, J.P., D.L., on pu...
6. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER I."Oh, Aranmore! loved Aranmore, How oft I dream of thee, And of those days when by thy shore I wandered young and free; Full many a path I've tried since then, Through pleasure's...
9. CHAPTER II.The "remnants of things that have passed away" are many on these islands. In no other part of the United Kingdom are there confined in spaces so narrow so many monuments of Paga...
10. CHAPTER III.A.D. 1308. The trade of Galway, which at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion in the twelfth century was at zero, rapidly rose to a comparatively high figure in the fourteenth...
11. CHAPTER IV.We have thus far spoken of the scenery of the islands, and of their natural history, of their antiquities, Pagan and Christian, and of their annals; let us now turn to speak of...
12. CHAPTER V.The extreme old age to which the inhabitants live in Aran proves the excellence of the air and of the food. Neither asthma, nor gout, nor rheumatism are known in portions of the...
13. CHAPTER VI.Having thus far spoken of the wealth that might be realized by the islanders from the waters that surround their islands, let us turn to speak of the wealth that might be realiz...
14. CHAPTER VII.In the present chapter we propose to give a few of the legends with which groves were enriched when the worship of the sun (Baal) was the religion of the world--legends yet reme...