INDEX

Chapters 1 North-East -- 2 East Midlands -- 3 North-West -- 4 South and Centre -- 5 South-West -- 6 West -- 7

Places in bold. Names of writers and texts in italics . Chapter number and nearest place given.

Abbey Theatre, Dublin : 6 (); 7 (Dublin centre) , Co.Mayo: 6 Adare , Co.: 4 AE see Russell, George Aed Ruadh (fire-god): 2 (Ballyshannon) Óg (Celtic god of love): 2 (Boyne valley) Aengus of the poisoned spear: 2 (Uisneach) Aherlow, Glen of, Co.Tipperary): 4 Aideen's Grave (): 7 () Ailill (consort of Queen Maeve): 3 (Rathcrogan, Roscommon) Aine, hill of , Co Limerick: 4 (Knockainey) (vision poem): 2 (Co.Meath, Aengus Og's Dream ) and note 15; 6 (Ballylee, Raftery) Alderford House, Ballyfarnan , Co.Roscommon: 3 (death of Carolan) Alexander , Cecil Frances (Humphreys), hymn writer: 3 (, ) Alexande r, William , Archbishop (Primate) of Armagh: 3 (Inishowen) Allen, Hill of , Co. : 7 Allingham , William : 3 and note 37 (Ballyshannon, S.Donegal); 5 (Valencia, Kerry: and Tennyson); 6 (: and Yeats) Anaffrin, Lough , Co. Donegal: 3 () , , : 6 note 37 (drowning disaster: Raftery) Annals : 1 note 45 Annals of the Four Masters : 3 (Rathcrogan (Roscommon); (Fermanagh); Bundoran (S.Donegal); Donegal town; Inishowen (Derry) 'Flight of the Earls'); 4 (); 7 (, ms) Annals of : 1 (Moira) and King Sweeney Annals of Westmeath (1907): 2 (Uisneach) Antrim, Glens of : 1 Antrim town, Round Tower: 1 , Co.Galway: 6 Ardagh , Co., 2 () Ardee (Ath Ferdiadh), Co.Louth: 2 (Cuchullainn) , Co.Galway: 6 () peninsula , Co.: 1 Armada, Spanish: 5 (Blasket islands); and 3 note 36 Armagh city : 1 Asseroe , Ballyshannon: 3 () Aughrim, Battle of (1691): 6 (: poem) Avoca , Wicklow Hills: 7 note22 ()

Bairead , Riocard (Richard Barrett): 6 () Ballinahinch , Co. Galway: 6 Ballinderry , Co.Down: 1 (Jeremy Taylor) Ballinure , Co.Antrim: 7 (Swift) Ballybunion , Co.Kerry: 5 (Tennyson) Ballycarry, Co.Antrim: 1 (James Orr and Dissenters) Ballycastle , Co.Antrim: 1 ('Deirdre') Ballyferriter , Co.Kerry ( peninsula): 5 Ballyhoura Mountains , Co.: 4 (Spenser) Ballylaneen , Co.: 4 (grave of 'Teague O'Sullivan') Ballylee , Co.Galway: 6 (Yeats's Tower) Ballymacoda , Co.Cork: 4 (Pierce Fitzgerald, Bards) Ballyroney , Co.Down: 1 (Mayne Reid) and note 65 Ballyshannon , Co.Donegal: 3, 6 (Allingham) , Co.Down: 1 (birthplace of Bronte father) , Co.Cork: 5 ( centre) Balor of the Evil Eye: 3 note 49 ( island) , Co. Offaly: 4 (Charlotte Bronte) Bangor , Co.Down: 1 ( Lough, early monasteries) Banim , John and Michael : 4 () and note 94 Bannow , Co.: 4 (Thomas Moore) Barnacle, Nora (Joyce): 6 note 37 (Galway) Banville , John : 4 note 2 (Wexford) Bardic Schools: 4 (); 5 (Cork, Ballyvourney). Barrahane, Saint.: 5 (, south Cork: holy well) Basterot, comte Florimond de: 6 (Durrus, , Co.Galway: Irish Revival)) Beare Peninsula : 5 (The Old Woman of Beare ; and notes 39, 40 ) Beckett, Samuel : 3 note 27 (Enniskillen); 7 and note 7 () Bective , Co.Meath: 2 (Mary Lavin) Bede, Venerable : 1 (Moira, 7th century learned men) Behan, Brendan : 4 (Wexford, on 18th century Catholic poets); 7 (Dublin, , imitating ) Belfrage, Sally : 1 note 38 () Bell, Dr: 4 (Banagher, uncle of Arthur Nicholls) Bell, Sam Hanna : 1 (Strangford Lough, December Bride ; , on Ulster). Bellaghy , Co.Derry: 1 (; Sweeney tales) Belmullet , Co.Mayo: 6 (T.H.White, 'Richard Barrett') Berkeley, George , Bishop: 4 (, south Cork; and note 20: legacy from Swift's 'Vanessa') Betjeman, John : 2 (Uisneach; Pakenham Hall) Bianconi, Charles: 4 (, coach service) Birmingham, George A . (James Owen Hannay): 1 (Belfast, The Red Hand of Ulster) ; 6 (Westport) Black and Tans: 4 (Limerick; Woodstock house, Inistioge); 6 (Ballylee, Yeats) Blackwater, River , Co.Cork: 4 Blackwood, Caroline : 1 note 60 (, Co.Down) , Co.Cork: 5 Blasket Islands , Co.Kerry: 5 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of: 4 note l04 (Clonmel) Blunt, Wilfred Scawen : 4 note73 (, Co.Galway); 6 (Coole Park, on Yeats and ) Bolcain, Glen, Rasharkin, Co.Antrim: 1 ('Sweeney's Flight') Böll, Heinrich : 2 (Tara, on folklore); 4 (Limerick); 5 (Cork, on Irish unity); 6 (Achill); 7 (Dun Laoghaire, sense of ; Dublin; Marsh's Library) Borris , Co.Carlow: 4 ('Ladies of Llangollen') Borrow, George : 4 (Clonmel) Boucicault, Dion : 4 (Limerick, The Colleen Bawn play; and note 59); 5 () Bourget, Paul: 6 note 9 (de Basterot) Bowen, Elizabeth : 1 (Belfast, on Henry James); 4 (Mallow, Co.Cork; , Kilcolman, on Spenser; Doneraile Conspiracy; Farahy, Kildorrery: Bowen's Court [illustration] ; The Last September; ); 6 (Coole); 7 note 52 (Stephen's Green) [ illustration , with O'Faolain] Boyle , Co.Roscommon: 3; 6 (Lissadell) Boyne , River, Co.Louth, Co.Meath: 2 (battle 1690; tumuli; ; and note 11) Bray, Lough , Co.Wicklow: 7 (Gogarty's picnic at) Brendan, Saint (the Voyager): 5 note 47 (Ballyferriter) , King of Ireland: 2 note 39 (Uisneach); 4 (The Shannon, Killaloe; Cashel ) Brigit, Saint: 2 note 9; 7 (Kildare and note 9) Bronte, Charlotte : 1 (family, Co.Down); 4 (Banagher, Co.Offaly; and note 76); 5 (Killarney, Gap of Dunloe); 6 (, Co.Clare) Bronte, Patrick: 1 (Ballyskeagh, Co.Down, and note 63); 4 (Banagher, Arthur Nicholls and) Brooke, Charlotte : 2 (Mullagh, east ; Reliques of , and notes 43, 53); 3 (north Donegal) Brooke, Henry : 2 (Mullagh; Brookiana ) Brown, Charles (friend of Keats): 1 (, Co.Down) and note 61 Brown, Valentine (landowner): 5 (Blarney, by O'Rahilly) Bruce, Robert, King of : 1 (Rathlin island) Brugh na Boinne (Newgrange): 2 (Boyne valley, Co.Meath) [ illustration : stone spirals] Bryans, Robin (Robert Harbinson): 1 Belfast, and note 9; Ulster note 24 Buchanan, George : 1 (Belfast, and note 9; Green Sea Coast ) Bulben, Ben (mountain): 6 (Sligo, death of Diarmaid); 7 (legendary hills) Bulfin, William : 2 note 43 Bullock, Shan F .: 1 (Belfast: Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder ) Burke, Edmund: 4 (Cloyne) Burnfoot , Co.Donegal: 3 (Inishowen) Burren , Co.Clare: 6 Butler, Lady Eleanor: 4 (Kilkenny, Borris) and note 85 Butler, Hubert : 4 (Inistioge, Co.Kilkenny; Slievenamon, Co.Tipperary)

Calendar of Oengus: 7 (Kildare) Callanan, J.J .: 5 and note 33 (Gougane Barra; Killarney) Campion, Edmund : 4 (Lismore, Co.Waterford) Cappoquin , Co.Waterford : 4 Carbery , south Cork: 5 (Swift) Carbery, Mary : 4 (, Co.Limerick; The Farm by Lough Gur ) Cark Mountain , north Donegal: 3 () Carleton, William : 3 (Clogher, Co.Tyrone, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry ; ; Glenties: Friel's Translations ; Ballyshannon (Allingham); 5 (Valentia, Tennyson); 7 (Dublin, Marsh's Library) Carlow : 4 (Bishop Doyle, 'JKL') Carlyle, Thomas : 3 (Ballyshannon, Allingham) and note 49 Carnduff, Thomas : 1 (Belfast: 'Bard of the Dockyard') Carolan, (harpist): 2 (Edgeworthstown, Co.Longford; Quilca, east Cavan); 3 Ballyfarnan, Co.Roscommon) Carra, Lough , Co.Mayo: 6 () Carrickfergus , Co.Antrim: 2 (Louis MacNeice) Carriganimmy , north-east Cork: 5 (Art O'Leary) , : 1 (Louis MacNeice) Carryll, Mary: 4 (Borris, Co.Carlow: 'Ladies of Llangollen') Cary, Joyce : 3 note 62 (Inishowen) Casey, 'Leo ' : 2 note 43 (Ballymahon, Co.Longford) Cashel ('of the Kings'), Co.Tipperary: 4 Castlecomer , Co.Kilkenny: 4 (Around Kilkenny: Sean O'Faolain) Castleconnel , Co.Limerick: 6 (Shannon: Wordsworth) Castlehaven , south Cork: 4 (Swift) Castletownshend , south Cork: 4 (Somerville & Ross) 'Cathach' (psalter): 3 (Donegal); 6 (, Sligo); 7 (Royal Irish Academy) Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúailnge ): 1 (Antrim; ' Fort', Co.Armagh); 2 (, and note 39); 3 Rathcrogan, Co.Roscommon); 4 ( Chase: de Vere; Terryglass, Co.Tipperary); 6 (Sligo: Yeats) , Co.Kildare: 7 (Swift's 'Vanessa') Cenn Faelad (ancient scholar),: 1 (Moira, Co.Down); 3 (Drumlane, Milltown, Co.Cavan) Charles I, King of : 1 (Dromore, Co.Down: Jeremy Taylor); 3 (Donegal: the Four Masters) Chesterton, G.K. : 1 (Belfast); 7 (Dublin: on bust of Mangan, and notes 43, 52) , Sir Arthur : 1 (Carrickfergus, Co.Antrim)) Chiericati, Francesco (papal nuncio): 1 note 62 (, Co.Down, ); 3 note 28 (Lough Derg pilgrimage) Churchill, Sir Winston: 4 (Curragh Chase, Limerick) Clancy, George (Mayor): 4 (Limerick, Kate O'Brien) Clandeboye , Co.Down: 1 ('Helen's Tower') Clarke, Austin : 3 (Frenchpark: ); 6 (on Galway cathedral); 7 (, and note 45; Abbey theatre: Yeats at) Clarke, Harry (stained glass artist): 4 (Killaloe) , Co.Galway: 6 (Clifden: Richard Murphy) 'Clíona's Wave': 4 ( south Cork, Kilcredan, Cloyne); 5 and note 24 (Castlehaven, Glandore) Clogher , Co.Tyrone: 3 (William Carleton) Clonmacnois , Co.Offaly: 4; 7 (Glendalough, 9th century poem) [ illustration ] Clonmel , Co.Tipperary: 4 Clontarf, Battle of, AD 1014: 4 (Killaloe: Brian Boru) Cloyne , south Cork: 4 (Bishop Berkeley) , Co.Cork: 5 Coleraine , Co.Derry: 1 Coleridge , S.T .: 1 (Dromore, Co.Down: admirer of Jeremy Taylor) Colgan, John : 3 (Fahan, Inishowen) Collins, Michael: 3 (: Gogarty); 7 (Dublin, Ely Place: meeting 'AE') 'Colloquy of the Ancients ': 1 (end: ); 4 (Cappoquin, Book of Lismore) Colman, Saint: 1 (Dromore, Co.Down) Colum, Padraic : 1 note 15 (Donegore, Co.Antrim: on ); 5 (Blarney; Killarney: on Callanan); 6 (Galway; Belmullet, on the 'dancing lilt' of Irish); 7 (Glendalough; Dublin, Dunsink: on Sean O'Casey) / Columcille, Saint: 1 note 52 (Bangor, Co.Down); 2 note 30 (Tara, Co.Meath); 3 (Donegal; Cark mountain; Derry); 6 (Belmullet, Co.Mayo; Drumcliff, Sligo); 7 note 9 (Kildare: and Saint Brigit; Dublin, Royal Irish Academy) Columbanus, Saint: 1 (Bangor, Co.Down; and note 52 ) Conchobor, King: 1 (', Armagh: Cuchulainn, Deirdre; 4 (Youghal,south Cork, his magic shield and the Great Waves ) Coleraine , Co.Derry): 4 Congreve, William: 4 (Kilkenny) : 6 Connolly, Cyril : 4 () Coole Park , , Co. Galway: 6 (Ardrahan: Lady Gregory; Yeats) Cooley Peninsula : Co.Louth: 2 Cork City : 5 Corkery, Daniel : 2 (Louth: The Hidden Ireland ; Delvin, Co.Westmeath); 4 (Croom, Co.Limerick); 5 (Cork; : and ; Gougane Barra: bards; Ivereagh: on O'); 6 (Ballylee: Raftery) Cormac Mac Art, King: 2 (Rosnaree, Boyne valley; Uisneach, Co.Westmeath); 6 (Ben Bulben, Sligo) Cormac's Chapel , Cashel: 5 Corrib, Lough : 6 (Galway, notes 33 and 37; Mayo: George Moore) Craik, Dinah (Mulock): 1 (Antrim; John Halifax, Gentleman ; Giant's Causeway); 3 (north Donegal: Kilmacredan holy well; and note 66) Croagh Patrick (holy mountain), Co.Mayo: 6 (Westport: ; T.H.White) Cromwell, Oliver: 1 (Dromore, Co.Down: Jeremy Taylor); 3 (Lough Key); 4 (Curragh Chase: Churchill's 'not again, please!') Cronin, Anthony : 3 (Co.Tyrone: Carleton); 4 note 82; 7 (Dublin: on Behan) Croom , Co.Limerick: 4 Cross, Eric : 5 (Gougane Barra, The Tailor and Anstey ) Cruachan (Rathcrogan), Co.Roscommon: 3; 6 (Sligo: Yeats and the 'long, blue, ragged hills' Cuchulainn (hero of the 'Cattle Raid'): 1 ( St Patrick versus ; the 'warp spasm'; at 'Navan Fort' ( Emain ), Co.Armagh; Coleraine: Ulster legends); 2 (Co.Louth, Meath: Sean O'Faolain; Ardee, the : fight with Ferdia); 7 (end) Curragh Chase (house), Askeaton, Co.Limerick: 4 (De Vere family) Cushendall , Co. Antrim: 1

Dafydd ap Gwillym (Welsh poet): 1 (Co.Louth: the 'Oriel' poets ) , : 7 Dames, Michael : 2 note 39 (Uisneach: Mythic Ireland ); 3 note 43; 7 (Kildare, on Saint Brigit) Darley, George : 7 and note 23 (Wicklow mountains) Davies, Sir John : 3 (Lough Swilly, 'The Flight of the Earls') Davis, Thomas (editor of The Nation ): 4 (Mallow); 5 (Cobh, ); 5 (south Cork, Timoleague); 6 (end; Sligo, influence on Yeats); 7 (Dublin, Marsh's Library ) Dawson, Colonel, of Aherlow: 4 ('satire' on) De Quincey, Thomas : 4 (Westport) de Valera, Eamon: 4 (Croom, Frank O'Connor's ironic letters to; Curragh Chase, Tennyson's appeal like Churchill's to; Cashel, censorship); 6 (Renvyle, Gogarty) de Vere, Sir Aubrey (1788-1846): 4 Curragh Chase, Limerick: mutual admiration with Wordsworth; Cashel (end) de Vere, Aubrey (1814-1902): 4 ( Curragh Chase, Limerick: Recollections ; and Gerald Griffin; early translator; friend of Tennyson); 5 ( Valentia: Tennyson) Deane, Seamus : 3 ('Derry', poem) 'Deirdre' (legends): 1 ('Navan Fort' / Emain Macha , Co.Armagh; and note 78; Ballycastle, Co.Antrim: Kate O'Brien; 2 note 47; 4 ( de Vere's translations) Delany, Mrs : 6 (Sligo) Delvin , Co. Westmeath: 2 Derg, Lough , Co. Donegal (pilgrimage site): 3 Derg (Dergderc), Lough: 3 (the Shannon) Dermody, Thomas : 6 (Ennis, Co.Clare) Derravaragh, Lough , Co. Westmeath: 2 (; ) Derry/ Londonderry : 3 (siege of, 1689; Mrs Alexander) Derrynane , : 5 (Daniel O'Connell) Desmond rebellion (1580s): 4 (south Cork: Edmund Spenser); Knockainey,Tipperary, 'Earl Gerald the Rhymer', and note 55) Devenish Island , Co.Offaly: 4 (the Shannon: 'Sweeney's Flight'; At Swim-Two-Birds ) Devonshire, Dukes of: 4 (Cappoquin, , 'Book of Lismore') 'Diarmaid and Grainne': 6 (Sligo, Ben Bulben); 7 (Kildare, ) (Corcaguiney, Co.Kerry): 5 Donaghadee , Co.Down: 1 (Keats) Donegal town: 3 Donegore , Co.Antrim: 1 (Antrim, Samuel Ferguson) Doneraile , Co.Cork: 4 (Spenser, Ralegh; Elixabeth Bowen; Patrick Sheehan: Glenanaar ; Doneraile Conspiracy, 1829: Daniel O'Connell) Doogoort , Achill Island, Co.Mayo: 6 (Heinrich Böll) Doon Well , north Donegal: 3 (Dinah Craik; Doon Rock: O'Donnell ceremony; and note 49) Downpatrick , Ards peninsula, Co.Down: 1 (tumulus), Boyne Valley, Co.Meath: 2 (George Moore and ‘AE’ exploring) Doyle, James Warren , 'JKL', Bishop: 4 (Carlow: Sean O'Faolain) Drake, Sir Francis: 1 (Carrickfergus, Rathlin Island) Dromana house, Co.Waterford: 4 (Blackwater valley: Daniel O'Connell, Lady Morgan) Dromore , Co.Down : 1 (bishops Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Percy) Drowes, River , south Donegal: 3 (Four Masters bridge) Drumcliff , Sligo: 6 (battle of; Yeats's grave) Drumlane , Milltown, Co.Cavan: 3 (round tower) , Co.Leitrim: 3 (Trollope) Dublin : 5 (John Mitchel leaving); 7 (Dublin Bay; Gogarty circling from air) , Helen (Sheridan ): 1 (Clandeboye, Co.Down) , Co.Louth: 1 ('Oriel' region) Dun Laoghaire (Dunleary, formerly Kingstown): 7 (Frank O'Connor; ; Thackeray; Iris Murdoch) Dunloe, Gap of , Killarney, Co. Kerry: 5 Dunquin , Co.Kerry: 4 (Blasket islands; Spanish Armada) Dunsany, Lord : 2 (, Co.Meath: ; The Book of Wonder ; The Curse of the Wise Woman ) Dunsink Observatory , Dublin: 7 (Wordsworth; Padraic Colum) Durrus house , Kinvarra, Co.Galway: 6 ()

Easter Rising, 1916: 2 (Francis Ledwidge); 4 (Patrick Sheehan); 6 () ; 7 (Iris Murdoch; Kilmainham; Sean O'Casey; ) Edgeworth, Maria : 2 (Delvin: The Absentee ; Edgeworthstown, Co.Longford ); 6 (Ballinahinch, Connemara; Renvyle) Ely Place, Dublin : 7 (George Moore et al ) Emain Macha ('Navan Fort'), Co.Armagh: 2 (legendary fortress): 7 (Kildare, Calendar of Oengus poem); [illustration] Ennis , Co.Clare: 4 (Croom, Co.Limerick: Frank O'Connor) ; 6 (Thomas Dermody; Ulysses connection) Enniskillen , Co.Fermanagh 3 (Lough Derg and note 27) Erne, Lough , Co.Fermanagh: 3 (Four Masters) Ervine, St John : 2 (Coleraine: on Ulster; and note 36); 7 (Dublin centre: on O'Casey) Essex, 1st Earl of: 1 (Rathlin island massacre)

Fahan , Inishowen, Co.Donegal: 3 (Bishop and Mrs C.F.Alexander) Fane, River , Co.Monaghan: 2 (Inniskeen, ) Farahy , Co.Cork: 4 (Elizabeth Bowen) Farquhar, George: 4 (school at Kilkenny) , Co.Clare: 4 (Merriman) Fee, Lough , Co.Galway: 6 (Wilde family lodge) Finn cycle of legends: 1 (end); 4 (Lismore: Colloquy of the Ancients ; Slievenamon, Tipperary); 6 (Ben Bulben, Sligo); 7 (Hill of Allen; Howth: Oisín) political movement: 4 (Patrick Sheehan; Charles Kickham) Ferguson, Sir Samuel : 1 (Donegore, Antrim); 2 ('The Burial of King Cormac'; and note 15); 5 (south Cork, translator); 7 (Howth, Dublin; and note 43) Ferriter, Pierce : 5 (Ballyferriter, Co.Kerry; Blasket islands; Killarney; Muckross Abbey) Finian, Saint: 1 note 52; 3 (Donegal: the 'Cathach'; Drumcliff, Sligo); 7 (Dublin, National Museum) Finn MacCool: 1 ( ; Moira; Giant's Causeway; end: the Fianna; Oisín on); 4 (Lismore; Slievenamon); 5 note 47; 6 (Sligo, Knocknarea: Yeats; Ben Bulben: and Grainne and Diarmaid); 7 (Hill of Allen: moral code; Dublin: in At Swim-Two-Birds ) Fitzgerald, Lord Edward: 4 note1: Thomas Moore; 7 (Dublin) Fitzgerald, Gerald, (Gearoid Iarla, 'Gerald the Rhymer'): 4 (Knockainey, Tipperary); 5 (Ballyferriter) Fitzgerald, Pierce (Pieras Mac Gearailt): 4 (Youghal; Cloyne; Bards; poem to the Virgin) Fitzmaurice, George: 5 note 62 (, Kerry) 'Flight of the Earls': 2 (Cooley peninsula; 3 (Donegal); Inishowen, Lough Swilly) Flower, Robin : 1 (on battle of Mag Rath; on Pangur poem); 4 ( on Spenser and ; Terryglass, Tipperary: The Irish Tradition ); 5 (Cork: on Mac Conglinne; Blaskets: on Spanish Armada); 6 (Sligo: on St Francis); 7 note 18 (Glendalough) Forkhill , Co.Armagh 1 (‘Oriel’ poets) Forster, E,M. : 1 (Belfast) Four Masters : 3 (Lough Erne; south Donegal: bridge; Donegal town; north Donegal); 6 (Ben Bulben, Sligo); 7 note 80 , Co.Dublin: 7 (Samuel Beckett; and note 27) Foyle, Lough: 3 (Inishowen; Siege of Derry; and note 62) French, Percy : 3 note 1 (Cloonyquin, Roscommon) Frenchpark , Co.Roscommon: 3 (Douglas Hyde) Friel, Brian : 3 (Glenties, Donegal: Dancing at Lughnasa ; Translations ; Inishowen); 5 (south Cork)

Gallarus, Oratory of, Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry: 5 note 47 Galtymore (mountain): 4 (Glen of Aherlow) Galway City: 6 Gerald, Earl (Fitzgerald: 'Gerald the Rhymer'): 4 note 55 (Lough Gur) Giant's Causeway , Co.Antrim: 1 (Bishop Percy’s garden; Scott, Thackeray) Giraldus Cambrensis: 2 note 39; 3 (Doon Rock) Glandore harbour : 5 (, and note 24) Observatory, Dublin: 7 Glencolumbcille , south Donegal: 3 Glendalough, Co.Wicklow: 7 Glengarriff , Co.Kerry: 5 Glenmalure , Co.Wicklow: 7 (Francis Stuart) Glenties , Co.Donegal: 3 (Patrick MacGill) Gobbins, The , , Co.Antrim: 1 () Gogarty, Oliver St John : 3 (north Donegal: on Stephen Gwynn); 6 (Connemara, Renvyle; south Mayo, Lough Carra: George Moore's ashes; Sligo: teasing Yeats); 7 (picnic in Wicklow Hills; Joyce’s tower in Ulysses ; flying over Dublin; on Howth; on Swift; and Michael Collins; end: in USA, scorns Joyce) Goldsmith, Oliver : 2 (Ballymahon, Lissoy, Westmeath-Longford); 3 (Allingham and Carlyle visit grave) Gonne, Maud (MacBride): 7 (Wicklow mountains: aiding German spy; ; St Stephen’s Green: seen walking by Kate O’Brien; Abbey theatre: walks out of Synge play; caricatured by Brendan Behan) Gosse, Sir Edmund : 1 (Ballinderry, Co.Antrim: on Jeremy Taylor) Gougane Barra , Co.Cork: 5 (O’Faolain; the ‘ Tailor’) [ illustration ] Graney, Lough , Co.Clare: 4 (Merriman’s Midnight Court ) Graves, Alfred Percival: 5 note 41 (Parknasilla, Kerry) Green, F.L.: 1 note 38 (Belfast: Odd Man Out ) Greene, Graham: 1 (Belfast: on George A.Birmingham) Gregory, Augusta , Lady: 1 (end: translation of Oisín story); 3 (Cuchulain of Muirthemne ; and Douglas Hyde); 5 (and Somerville and Ross); 6 (south Galway: Irish Literary Revival; Coole Park: Yeats; George Moore and her '' style); 7 (Hill of Allen: tribute by Yeats; and Abbey Theatre) [ illustration ] Grianan Aileach , Derry: 3 Griffin, Gerald : 4 (Croom, Limerick: The Collegians , the Colleen Bawn; and note 58); 5 (Killarney) Grigson, Geoffrey : 3 (Glencolumbkille); 5 (Skelligs); 6 () Gur, Lough , Co.Limerick: 4 (‘Gerald the Rhymer’) Gwynn, Stephen : 3 (Lough Erne, on Four Masters; north Donegal, Cark Mountain: and a shanachy ); 4 (Kilmacthomas, Wexford: The Fair Hills of Ireland ; Killaloe, Clare: Brian Boru’s palace)

Haicéad, Pádraigin (Patrick Hackett): 4 (Cashel) Hall, Mr and Mrs , Samuel C. and Anna Maria: 4 (Bannow, Wexford; Hall's Ireland ; Kilkenny); 5 (Cobh, Cork; Gougane Barra) Hamilton, William Rowan (astronomer): 7 (Dublin, Dunsink Observatory: his sister describing Wordsworth) Hartnett, Michael : 5 (end: Chef Yeats …); 6 (beginning) Healy, Dan (Shelley's Irish servant): 5 note 56 Heaney, Seamus : 1 (Lough Neagh; Bellaghy, Derry: ; 3 (Lough Derg: Carleton, Station Island ); 4 (St Mullins); 5 (Ballyferriter, Gallarus Oratory) Hewitt, John : 1 (Islandmagee, Antrim: The Bloody Brae ; Belfast: on Ulster; Kilmore, Armagh; Cushendall, Glens of Antrim); 3 (Ballyshannon, on Allingham) Hogg, Thomas : 5 and note 57 (Killarney: on Shelley) Hopkins, Gerard Manley : 7 (Dublin, Glasnevin cemetery; St Stephen's Green, University College) Howth , Dublin: 7 (Dublin Bay; Gogarty flying over) Hutchinson, Pearse : 3 (west Tyrone, Carleton: 'The Frost is All Over'; Gaelic language) Hyde, Douglas : 1 ('Navan Fort', Armagh: on the 'Cattle Raid'); 3 (Frenchpark, Roscommon: Love Songs of ; Lough Key: Yeats; Boyle, Roscommon: religious poets); 4 (Glen of Aherlow: translation of satire); 6 (Cork: and Raftery; Irish Literary Revival; Ballylee: 'Mary Hynes')

Inch Strand , Dingle peninsula, Co.Kerry: 5 (Egan O'Rahilly) Inishkea , Belmullet, Co.Mayo: 6 (Children of Lir; T.H.White) Inishowen , Co.Donegal/ Derry: 3 Inistioge , Nore valley, Co.Kilkenny: 4 (Woodstock House; Banim brothers' The Fetches; Hubert Butler) Innisfree , 'Lake Isle of', Lough Gill, Co. Sligo: 6 (Yeats; on) [ illustration ] Inniskeen , Co.Monaghan: 2 (Patrick Kavanagh) Irish Literary Revival: 2 (Meath: Moore and 'AE'; Boyne river: Ferguson's 'Burial of King Cormac'; 4 (Bennettsbridge, Kilkenny: Iris Origo); 6 (south Galway, Kinvara: de Basterot, Lady Gregory, Yeats, Edward Martyn; Coole Park; Tulira Castle); 7 (Dublin Bay) Irvine, Alexander : 1 (Antrim: My Lady ofthe Chimney Comer ) Islandmagee , Co.Antrim: 1 (James Simmons, John Hewitt) (Ring of Kerry): 5

James, Henry: 1 (Belfast: Ulster character) Jessop, William : 1 (Dromore, Down: on Bishop Percy's garden) 'JKL ', see Doyle , James Warren : 4 (Kilkenny) Johnson, Esther (Swift's 'Stella'): 2 and note 10 (east Cavan, Quilca house: holidays with Swift); 7 and note 42: Celbridge, Co.Kildare: poem Jealousy ) Johnson, Samuel : 1 (Coleraine: on the Irish) Johnston, Denis : 7 ( Dublin, Abbey Theatre: The Old Lady Says No! ) Joyce, James : 3 ( Donegal: admires Mangan); 4 (Limerick: and George Clancy); 6 (Ennis, Clare: Ulysses connection; Renvyle: Gogarty and); 7 (Wicklow hills: on ; (Dublin Bay: : ; Howth: Ulysses and the Danes; Dublin: St Stephen's Green: University College; Denis Johnston on; 'Joycean buckshot'; Italian lecture on Mangan; and note 66)

Kavanagh, Patrick : 2 (Inniskeen, Monaghan: homeland; Kerr's Ass ; The Green Fool ; in : Helen Waddell); 3 (Tyrone: Carleton; Lough Derg Pilgrimage); 4 (Killaloe: on Danes); 7 (in Dublin; by the canal; end: ‘Shall we be thus forever?’) Kavanagh, P.J. ; 6 (Ballylee: poem on Yeats’s Tower) Keane, John B.: 5 note 62 (Listowel, Kerry) Keane, Molly : 4 (Wexford: note 2; Blackwater valley: Two Days in Aragon ; and note 25) Keating, Geoffrey (Séathrún Céitinn): 3 (north Donegal, Doon Rock); 4 (Glen of Aherlow) Keats, John : 1 (Belfast: industrial noise; Donaghadee, Co.Down) Keene, Sir John: 5 (Gougane Barra: defending The Tailor and Anstey ) Kelly, Michael (singer, friend of Mozart): 5 (Macroom: on Irish-speakers) Kerry Poets, Four: 5 (Killarney, Muckross Abbey) Kevin, Saint: 7 (Glendalough) Key (Cé, Kay), Lough, Co.Roscommon: 3 Kickham, Charles : 4 (Tipperary town: statue; Mullinahone, Tipperary: Knocknagow ) Kieran, Saint: 4 (Clonmacnois) Kilbarron Castle , Co.Donegal: 3 (O’Clerys) Kilcash , Co.Tipperary: 4 (Slievenamon: What shall we do for timber? ...) Kilcolman , Co.Cork: 4 (Edmund Spenser) Kilcrea Abbey , Co.Cork: 5 (tomb of Art O’Leary) Kilcredan church, south Cork: 5 (Pierce Fitzgerald) Kildare : 7 (Saint Brigit) Kilkee , Co.Clare: 6 (Charlotte Bronte) Kilkenny : 4 Bay , Co.Galway: 6 (Padraic O Conaire; Patrick Pearse) Killala , Co.Mayo: 6 (Mrs Delaney; French landing) Killaloe , Co.Clare: 4 (‘Kincora’: Brian Boru; ) Killarney: 5 Killary Harbour , Connemara: 6 Killineen , Co.Galway: 6 (Raftery) Kilmacrenan , Co.Donegal: 3 (north Donegal: Doon Well) , Dublin: 6 (Patrick Pearse); 7 (Thomas MacDonagh; James Stephens; Sean O’Casey) Kilmore , Co.Armagh: 1 (W.R.Rodgers; John Hewitt) , Co.Roscommon: 3 (graveyard: Carolan’s skull) Kilroot , Co.Antrim: 1 () Kilwaughter , Co.Antrim: 1 (George Buchanan) Kingsley, Charles: 2 (admiring Henry Brooke’s The Fool of Quality ) Kinlough , Co.Donegal: 3 (Four Masters bridge) , Co.Cork: 2 (battle, 1601) Kinsella, Thomas : 2 (on ‘Oriel’ poets); 4 (on Bards); 5 (on ‘Pierce Ferriter’) Kinvar(r)a , Co.Galway: 6 (Durrus House: Irish Literary Revival) Knockainey , Co.Limerick: 4 (Lough Gur) Knocknagree , Slieve Luachra, Kerry: 5 (Owen Roe O’Sullivan) : 2 ( Boyne valley tumuli)

‘Ladies of Llangollen’: 4 (Kilkenny; Borris house, Carlow) Lament for Art O’Leary : 5 (Macroom) Lament of the Old Woman of Beare : 5 (Beare peninsula) Laracor , near Trim, Co.Meath: 2 (Swift) Laragh , Co.Wicklow: 7 (Glendalough: Francis Stuart, , Yeats,) Latocnaye, chevalier de : 1 (Antrim: puzzled by Round Towers; and note 17); 6 (Connemara, Ballinahinch) Lavin, Mary : 2 (Bective, Meath) Lawless, Emily : 6 and note 5 (the Burren, Co.Clare: Hurrish ); 7 (Dublin, Lyons House seen from the air) Lawrence, T.E.: 2 note 37 (Delvin) Leane, Lough , Killarney: 5 (Shelley; J.J.Callanan, The Outlaw of Lough Lene ) Ledwidge, Francis : 2 (Janeville, Slane, Meath: and ; Lament for Thomas MacDonagh ) Lenane , Co.Galway: 6 (Connemara) Letterkenny , Co.Donegal: 3 note 56 Lever, Charles : 6 (Connemara, Ballinahinch: The Martins of Cro-Martin ) Lewis, C.S .: 1 (Belfast: the ‘Ulsterior motive’; Co.Down: drumlin country; and notes 23, 30) Liffey, River : 6 (Renvyle, Gogarty swimming); 7 (Wicklow mountains: Joyce) Lilliput house: 2 note 47 (Lough Owel) Limerick : 4 (city: Heinrich Böll, Kate O’Brien); 5 (Blarney, Cork: Treaty of Limerick 1691: Frank O’Connor) Lir, Children of : 1 (Ballycastle, Antrim); 2 (Lough Derravaragh, Westmeath); 4 (Aubrey de Vere translation); 6 (Belmullet, Inishkea) Liscannor , Co.Clare: 5 (Trollope, An Eye for an Eye ) Lismore , Co.Waterford: 4 (Blackwater valley: Lismore Castle; Book of Lismore ); 7 (Dublin Bay: Da Dearga’s Hostel ) Lissadell , Sligo: 6 Lissoy , Co.Longford: 2 (Oliver Goldsmith) Listowel , Co.Kerry: 5 note 62 Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott): 2 (Edgeworthstown); 4 (Kilkenny, ‘Ladies of Llangollen); 7 (Glendalough) Londonderry , see Derry: 3 (siege, 1688: Siege of Derry by Mrs Alexander) Longford House , near , Co.Mayo: 6 (Lady Morgan, The Wild Irish Girl ) Longford, Christine : 2 note 50 (Pakenham Hall, Westmeath) Longford, Edward , Earl of: 2 (Pakenham Hall/ Tullynally, Castlepollard, Westmeath); 4 (Lough Gur: translation of ‘Gerald the Rhymer’) Loughgall , Co.Armagh: 1 (W.R.Rodgers) , east Galway: 6 (cathedral; Gerald O’Donovan) Lugh (sun-god); Lughnasa (festival): 3 (Donegal; Glenties: Brian Friel play) Lyte, H.F.: 3 note 27 (Portora Royal School, Enniskillen)

Macaulay, Rose: 6 (Loughrea: Gerald O’Donovan) Macaulay , Thomas Babington: 3 (on Derry, in History of England ) MacBride, Major John: 7 (Dublin, Kilmainham) Mac Conglinne, Vision of : 1 note 2 (on importance of naming); 5 (Cork city) MacCooey (MacCumhaigh), Art : 2 (‘Oriel’ poets; Patrick Kavanagh poem) McCormack, John: 4 (Wexford: Tom Moore); 6 (Loughrea cathedral) MacDonagh, Thomas : 2 (‘Oriel’ poets: translation of The Yellow Bittern ; lament by Ledwidge); 6 (Tulira, south Galway: and Edward Martyn; : and Patrick Pearse); 7 (Kilmainham Gaol) Macdonnel, John : 4 (Glen of Aherlow: satire on Colonel Dawson) MacDonnell, Sorley Boy: 1 (Rathlin Island massacre) McGahern, John : 3 note 16 (Leitrim) MacGill, Patrick : 3 (Glenties: The Children of the Dead End ) MacGiolla Gunna, Cathal Bui : 2 (‘Oriel’ poets: The Yellow Bittern ; MacDonagh’s translation); 3 note 16 MacGrianna, Seosamh : 3 note 56 Maclntyre, Tom : 2 (‘Oriel’ poets: translation of The Yellow Bittern ) Macken, Walter : 6 note 37 (Galway) MacLaverty, Michael : 1 notes 38, 84 (Belfast; Rathlin Island) MacMahon, Bryan : 5 note 62 (Listowel, Kerry) MacManus, Francis : 4 (Wexford/Cork: Bards; Men Withering ) MacNamara, Brinsley : 2 (Delvin, Westmeath: The Valley of the Squinting Windows ) [illustration , with Flann O'Brien] MacNamara, Denis 'the Red' (Donnachdh Ruadh Mac Con Mara): 4 (Kilmacthomas, Waterford-Cork; trilogy by MacManus about) Macnean, Lough , Cavan/ Leitrim/ Fermanagh: 2 note 7 ( Yellow Bittern monument, near Blacklion); 3 note 16 MacNeice, Louis : 1 (Carrickfergus, Antrim; Belfast; on English impatience with Ireland; Carrowdore, Ards peninsula; Kilmore, Armagh: friend of W.R.Rodgers); 6 (Mayo; Achill: his father) Macpherson, James ('Ossian'): 1 note 91 Macroom , Co.Cork: 5 (Lament for Art O’Leary) Maeve, Queen of Connacht: and 'Cattle Raid of Cooley': 1 (Cuchulainn); 2 (Cooley peninsula); 3 (Rathcrogan, Roscommon); 6 (Sligo, Knocknarea: Yeats) Mahee Island , Strangford Lough: 1 (Nendrum) Mahon, Derek : 1 Carrickfergus, Antrim: poem for MacNeice) Mallow , Co.Cork: 4 (Elizabeth Bowen) Mangan, James Clarence : 3 (Donegal); 4 (Killaloe, Clare: Brian Boru); 5 (south Cork: Timoleague Abbey); 7 (Dublin: Joyce’s lecture on; in Trinity College library; in Marsh’s Library) Markethill , Co.Armagh 1 (Swift destroying ‘fairy thorn’) Markiewicz, Constance (Gore-Booth): 6 (Sligo, Lissadell: Yeats); 7 (Dublin, Kilmainham Gaol) Marsh's Library, Dublin : 7 Martin, Mary: 6 (Connemara, Ballinahinch; ) Martin, Richard (‘Humanity Dick’): 6 (Ballinahinch) Martin, Violet ('Martin Ross'): 5 (Castletownshend, Cork); 6 (Ross House, Galway; Connemara, Ballinahinch; Renvyle) Martineau, Harriet : 6 and note 32 (Galway, the Claddagh; Connemara; Westport, Mayo) Martyn, Edward : 6 (south Galway, Tulira, Ardrahan: the Irish Literary Revival; and George Moore) Mathews, Aidan Carl : 6 (Spiddal, Galway: ' Thirty-one words for ...’) Maturin, Charles : 7 note 19 ( Melmoth the Wanderer ) Merriman, Brian : 4 (Limerick; , Clare: The Midnight Court ) Merrion Square, Dublin : 7 (V.S.Pritchett: Yeats making tea) Merrion Strand, Dublin : 7 (Gogarty; Swift) , Co.Cork: 4 (Walter Ralegh) Milliken, Richard Alfred : 5 ('The Groves of Blarney'); 6 (Belmullet) Milltown , Co.Cavan: 3 (Toomregan; Drumlane Round Tower) Mitchel, John : 4 and note 4 (Carlow, ‘JKL’; Spike Island, Cobh, Cork: Jail Journal ); 7 (on Mangan in Trinity College library) Mitchelstown , Co.Cork: 4 (Arthur Young; Mary Wollsonecraft; Elizabeth Bowen; Cyril Connolly) Moher, Cliffs of , Co.Clare: 6 (Trollope: An Eye for an Eye ) , Co.Leitrim: 3 (Trollope; 'Lord Birmingham') Moira , Co.Down: 1 (Battle of Mag Rath) Molaise, Saint: 6 (Drumcliff, Sligo: and St Columcille) Moling, Saint: 4 (St Mullins: epitaph for Sweeney) Montague, John : 3 (west Tyrone: A Lost Tradition ; 7 (Dublin, Abbey theatre: ‘ Puritan Ireland’s dead and gone ...’) Moore Hall , Lough Carra, Co.Mayo: 6 (George Moore) [ illustration] Moore, Brian : 1 note 38 (Belfast) Moore, George : 2 (at Dowth with AE); Hail and Farewell; 4 (Lismore; A Storyteller's Holiday ; and note 30); 6 (south Galway: Irish Revival [ illustration , with Yeats at Coole park]; Tulira: teasing Edward Martyn; Lough Carra: Moore Hall [ illustration ]; The Lake; burial party; Croagh Patrick; Westport: note 59); 7 (Dublin Bay; Ely Place; with James Stephens; St Stephen's Green: A Drama in Muslin , and note 52) Moore, Thomas : 1 (Ballycastle: quote on Lir's children); 4 (Wexford, Bannow: triumphal procession; Kilkenny: theatre; marriage to Bessy); 7 (Glendalough: quoted; Dublin: Marsh's Library; note 76: birthplace) Morgan, Lady (Sydney Owenson): 4 and note 26 (Blackwater valley: O'Connell quotes); 6 (Sligo, Longford House near Beltra) Morton, H.V. : 5 (Cobh, Cork: quote from In Search of Ireland , 1930) Mountcashel, Margaret (pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft; friend of Shelley): 4 note 47 , mountains : 1 (Co.Down); 2 (Sean O'Faoláin) Movilla, , Co.Down: 1 (ancient monastery) Moy , Co.Tyrone/ Armagh: 1 () Moybolgue , Co.Cavan: 2 ( Brookiana : dialogue in churchyard) Mucker , Co.Monaghan: 2 (Patrick Kavanagh) Muckross Abbey , Killarney: 5 Muff , Inishowen, Co.Donegal: 3 (John Colgan; Lough Foyle; and note 62) Muirchu : 1 (Armagh: Life of St Patrick ); 2 (Tara) Muldoon, Paul : 1 (Moy: Tyrone/ Armagh border) Mullagh , Co.Cavan: 2 (Brooke family) Mullinahone , Co.Tipperary: 4 (Charles Kickham) Mullinashee , Ballyshannon, Co.Donegal: 3 (William Allingham) Mullingar , Co.Westmeath: 2 (Trim: T.H.White blaming for weather; and note 38) 'Munchausen, Baron' (Rudolf Raspe): 5 note 54 (Muckross, Killarney) Municipal Gallery, Dublin: 7 (end: poem by Yeats) Mura (Murus), Saint: 3 (Fahan, Inishowen) Murdoch, Iris : 4 (at Bowen's Court, north Cork); 6 (: The Unicorn ); 7 (Dun Leary: The Red and the Green) Murphy, Richard : 6 (Connemara, Cleggan: poem on slates; The , Loughrea, Galway) Murphy, Seamus (sculptor): 5 (Gougane Barra: 'The Tailor'; Killarney: monument to Four Kerry Poets) 'Myles na Gopaleen' , see O'Brien, Flann Myross , west Cork: 5 (Seán Ó Coileán)

Nation, The : 4 (Wexford: ‘Speranza’; Mallow: Thomas Davis); 5 (Cobh, John Mitchel; south Cork: Mangan) National Gallery, Dublin : 7 (James Stephens) National Museum, Dublin: 7 (treasures of history) 'Navan Fort' , Co.Armagh: see Emain Macha Neagh, Lough: 1 (Seamus Heaney: Lough Neagh Sequence; Mrs Craik) Nendrum , Mahee Island, Strangford Lough: 1 (excavated monastery: Helen Waddell) Newcastle West , Co.Limerick: 5 () Newgrange , Boyne valley: 2 (ancient tumulus: Brugh na Boinne , Aengus Og’s dream); [illustration: stone spirals] Newman, John Henry, Cardinal: 7 (University College, St Stephen’s Green) Newtown , Co.Waterford: 4 (Kilmacthomas: ‘Denis MacNamara’) Nicholls, Arthur Bell (Charlotte Bronte's husband): 4 (The Shannon: Banagher); 6 (Kilkee, Co.Clare) Nicolson, Harold : 1 (Clandeboye: Helen's Tower)

O'Brien, Edna : 4 (, Clare: A Pagan Place ) O'Brien, Flann (Brian O'Nolan;): 1 (Moira: King Sweeney); 3 note 56 (Letterkenny: ‘ The Poor Mouth’ ); 4 (Devenish island, : At Swim-Two-Birds ; and note 82); note 58 (origin of pen name 'Myles na Gopaleen'); 7 (Dublin Bay: The Dalkey Archive ; pub scene: ‘A pint of plain is your only man’); and note 51 (University College) [illustration, with Brinsley MacNamara] O'Brien, George : 4 (Lismore: Blackwater Valley) O'Brien, Kate : 1 (Belfast: Queen’s Island shipyards; ‘Navan Fort’; Glens of Antrim; Ballycastle: Lir's children, Deirdre); 4 (Limerick); 6 (Ignazio Silone visits Galway; on Roundstone, Connemara); 7 (Stephen’s Green: Maude Gonne walking; 285; Abbey theatre: Yeats rebuking audience) O'Brien, William Smith: 4 (Clonmel: a ‘Young Irelander’ sent to Van Dieman’s Land) O'Brien's Bridge , Co.Limerick: 6 (near Castleconnell: ‘the great divide’) Ó Bruadair, Dáibhí : 5 (Whitechurch, Cork: Daniel Corkery) O Cadhain, Martin : 6 (Spiddal, Galway: The Road to Brightcity ) O'Callaghan, Michael (Mayor of Limerick): 4 (Limerick: Kate O’Brien) O'Casey, Sean : 7 (Dublin, Dunsink: Padraic Colum; the Rising, 1916: Patrick Pearse); Abbey theatre: The Plough and the Stars ; birthplace near Cathedral: Heinrich Böll) O'Clery, Michael : 3 (Donegal, the ‘Cathach’); 4 (Book of Lismore); 7 note 80 (Patrick Kavanagh poem); and see Four Masters Ó Coileáin, Seán: 5 (south Cork, Timoleague: Musings of a Melancholy Man ) O Conaire , Padraic: 6 (Galway) O'Connell, Daniel : 4 (at Dromana house, Blackwater valley; Waterford campaign; Doneraile: saves 'conspirators'; Croom, Limerick: defends Scanlon in murder case); Clonmel: friend of Bianconi); 5 (Macroom: Catholic Emancipation; Derrynane, Kerry: O'Faolain); 7 (Glasnevin cemetery: tomb with Round Tower) O'Connell, Eileen (O'Leary): 5 (Macroom, Cork: Lament for Art O'Leary ; Derrynane, Ring of Kerry)

O'Connor, Frank : 3 (end: translation of Oisín); 2 (beginning: on the 'Cattle Raid'; Laracor: on Swift); 3 (Lough Key: Kings, Lords and Commons ; Leitrim: Irish Miles ; Lough Derg: and Kavanagh's poem); 4 (on Bards of Munster; Lismore: translation; Adare village; Limerick: Merriman; Clonmacnois: parody of Rolleston poem; Kilkenny: the castle; Slievenamon, Kilcash: 'What shall we do for timber…'); 5 (beginning: books about Ireland; Cork: native city; discovering Irish; Daniel Corkery: Raftery; Whitechurch: O'Rahilly; Castletownshend: Somerville and Ross, Lady Gregory; Guests of the Nation ; Gougane Barra: 'The Tailor'; Killarney: translation of O'Rahilly); 6 (Galway, Coole Park: Yeats; Mayo, Lough Carra: George Moore's The Lake ; Belmullet: rhythms of Irish); 7 (Dublin Bay: a 'literary pilgrim'; Abbey Theatre) [illustration] O'Connor, Ulick : 6 (Coole Park: Celtic Dawn ) Ó Crohan, Tomás: 5 (Blasket islands: The Islandman ) O'Daly, Donagh Mor (Donnachadh Mor Ó Dálaigh), Abbot: 3 (Boyle, Roscommon: Douglas Hyde) O'Daly, Murray (Muireadhach Ó Dálaigh): 6 (Sligo, Lissadell) O'Donoghue, Geoffrey (one of Four Kerry Poets): 5 (Killarney) O'Donovan, Gerald : 6 (Loughrea, east Galway; Lough Carra, Moore’s The Lake ) O'Donovan, John : 3 (Lough Erne: translator of 'Four Masters') O Duinnin, Tadhg : 4 note 43 (Doneraile) O'Faolain, Sean : 1 (Coleraine: on St John Ervine; 2 (An Irish Journey : Cuchulainn); 3 (Leitrim landscape; Lough Derg: ‘Lovers of the Lake’); 4 (north Cork: on Spenser; King of the Beggars : on Daniel O’Connell; and Elizabeth Bowen [illustration]; at Castlecomer, Kilkenny ); 5 (Cork; on Daniel Corkery; Midsummer Night Madness ; Gougane Barra: The Silence of the Valley ; the ‘Tailor'; Derrynane, Ring of Kerry: O'Connell); 6 (Galway; Rosmuck: Patrick Pearse); 7 (beginning: on Hill of Allen, Kildare; Dublin history: Discord ) O'Flaherty, Liam : 6 (Aran islands: Patsa ) O'Grady, Standish : 1 (‘Navan Fort’, Armagh); 4 (Kilkenny, Inistioge: Hubert Butler on Irish quarrels) O'Grady, Standish Hayes : 4 (Blackwater valley: Book of Lismore; Silva Gadelica ) O'Hara, Mary, 315n7 O'Hussey (O hEodhasa), Bonaventura : 2 (Delvin, Westmeath) Oisín (Usheen, 'Ossian': son of Finn): 1 (end: encounter with St Patrick); 4 (Lismore: Colloquy of the Ancients ; 6 (Coole Park: stories retold by Lady Gregory; Ben Bulben, Sligo: death of Diarmaid); 7 (Hill of Allen: the Fianna ) O'Leary, Arthur: 5 (Macroom: Lament for Art O’Leary ) O'Leary, John: 4 (Tipperary: Yeats) 'O'Neill. Moira' : 1 note 81 (Cushendall, Glens of Antrim) O'Rahilly, Egan (Aogan Ó Rathaille): 5 (Cork: Whitechurch, Blarney: Daniel Corkery; Ballyvourney; Dingle peninsula/ Corcaguiney; Killarney, Torc waterfall: 'I shall not call for help till they coffin me': Frank O'Connor and Yeats) 'Oriel' poets: 1 (Mount Oriel, SW of Dundalk, south-east Ulster; note 6) Origo, Iris : 4 (Bennettsbridge, Kilkenny) Orr, James : 1 (Ballycarry, Antrim) Orwell, George : 7 (the Rising: on O'Casey) O'Sullivan, Maurice : 5 (Blasket Islands: Twenty Years A-Growing ) O'Sullivan, Owen Roe (Eoghan Rua Ó Suilleabhain): 5 (Ballyvourney, north-west Cork; Killarney; Knocknagree, Kerry/ Cork border, Slieve Luachra hills) O'Sullivan, Teague (Tadhg Ó Suilleabháin): 4 (Newtown, Kilmacthomas, Co.Waterford: epitaph) Otway, Rev. Caesar : 3 (Lough Derg; Carleton; and note 30) O'Twomey, John (Sean Ó Tuama): 4 (Croom, Limerick) , Co.Galway: 6 (Somerville and Ross) Owel, Lough , Co.Westmeath: 2 note 47

Pakenham Hall (Tullynally), Castlepollard, Co.Westmeath: 2 (Uisneach: Annals of Westmeath ; Lough Derravaragh: Maria Edgeworth; John Betjeman; the Longfords; Thomas Pakenham) Pakenham, Thomas : 2 (Tullynally, Westmeath: The Year of ) Patrick, Saint: 1 (beginning, and note 1; Slemish, Antrim; Strangford Lough; Downpatrick, and note 62; Armagh, and note 70; end: defied by Oisín); 2 (Tara); 3 (Lough Derg: 'St Patrick's '; north Donegal, Cark Mountain) 4 (Lismore: Colloquy of the Ancients ; Cashel); 6 (Coole Park: Lady Gregory version; south Mayo, Lough Carra poem; Croagh Patrick; Belmullet: Children of Lir); 7 (National Museum: his bell-shrine) Pearse, Patrick (Paudrig): 2 (and Ledwidge); 6 (Galway: Spiddal, Rosmuck); 7 (Kilmainham Gaol: execution; St Enda's: on education; O'Casey's lament for) [illustration] Percy, Thomas , Bishop: 1 (garden at Dromore; Reliques ); 2 (end: inspiring Charlotte Brooke); 4 (Mitchelstown: gossip) Pilkington, Laetitia : 7 and note 70 (Dublin: dinner with Swift) Plunkett, Sir Horace : 6 (Coole: Yeats, Edward Matyn; employing 'AE') Plunkett, Joseph Mary : 6 (Tulira: Edward Martyn); 7 (Kilmainham Gaol: execution) Ponsonby, Sarah: 4 (Kilkenny, Woodstock; see 'Ladies of Llangollen') Price, Arthur, Archbishop: 4 and note 106 (Cashel) Pritchett, Victor S. : 1 (Belfast); 7 (Dublin, Merrion Square: tea with Yeats) 'Prout, Father' (Francis Mahoney): 5 note l6

Quilca house (Cuilcagh), near Virginia, Cavan: 2 (Sheridan family; Swift) Quoile, River , Co.Down: 1 (Downpatrick: Saint Patrick's landing-place)

Raftery, Anthony : 5 (Cork: Daniel Corkery; 6 and note 26 (Ballylee: Douglas Hyde, Yeats; 'Mary Hynes' poem) Ralegh, Sir Walter : 4 (Youghal; Midleton: exploit at ford; Doneraile: meeting Spenser; 5 (Dingle peninsula: Smerwick massacre, 1580); 6 (Renvyle: History of the World burnt) Ranjitsinjhi: 6 (Connemara, Ballinahinch) Rathcrogan (Cruachan), Co.Roscommon: 3 (beginning: the 'Cattle Raid'); 7 (Kildare, poem on pagan places) , Dublin: 7 (Yeats; St Enda's) Rathlin Island , Co.Antrim: 1 (massacre, 1575); 'Children of Lir'; and notes 83,84); 2 (Lough Derravaragh) Rathmullen , Lough Swilly, Co.Donegal: 3 ('Flight of the Earls') Reid, Forrest : 1 (Belfast: V.S.Pritchett; Apostate ; and note 62) Reid, Mayne : 1 (Ballyroney, Down; and note 65) Renvyle , Co.Galway: 6 (Connemara: Oliver St John Gogarty) Rockingham house, Lough Key, Co.Roscommon: 3 Rodgers, W.R .: 1 (Armagh) Rogers, Samuel : 4 (Bannow: Tom Moore: argument over slavery; Kilkenny: Bessy Moore) Rolleston, T.W .: 2 (Lough Derravaragh: Children of Lir); 4 (Conmacnois: famous poem; O'Connor's parody) Ronan, Saint: 1 (Moira: cursing King Sweeney) Rosmuck , Co.Galway: 6 (Patrick Pearse) Rosnaree , on River Boyne: 2 (Burial of King Cormac , poem by Samuel Ferguson) Ross House , Maam Cross, Galway: 6 (Violet Martin) 'Ross , Martin', see Martin, Violet: 5 (Castletownshend: Somerville and Ross) Bay , Co.Cork: 5 note 24 , Sligo: 6 (Yeats) Rossnowlagh , Co.Donegal: 3 (Kilbarron castle; O'Clerys) Roundstone , Co.Galway: 6 (Kate O'Brien) Royal Irish Academy: 1 (Dromore: Bishop Percy's disappointment with); 2 note 53 (Charlotte Brooke); 7 (Dublin: literary treasures) Russell, George ('AE'): 2 (at Dowth with George Moore; Slane: and Ledwidge); 3 note 49 (Donegal); 6 (Coole: works for agricultural organization; Plunkett and Yeats; Lough Carra: on Moore's The Brook Kerith ); 7 (Dublin: Ely Place; with Michael Collins)

St Enda's, Rathfarnham, Dublin: 7 (Patrick Pearse's school) St Mullin's , Barrow valley, Co.Carlow: 4 (monastery; epitaph on Sweeney) Sarsfield, Patrick: 6 (Richard Murphy's Battle of Aughrim ; , east Galway) Saul , Ards peninsula, Co.Down: 1 (St Patrick's first church) Sayers, Dorothy L .: 1 (Belfast: versus Helen Waddell) Sayers, Peig : 5 (Blasket islands: An Old Woman's Reflections ) Scott, Sir Walter : 1 (Dromore: gardens; Clandeboye: Rokeby ; on Giant's Causeway); 2 (Edgeworthstown, Longford: friendship with Maria Edgeworth); 3 note 62; 4 (Kilkenny: with Lockhart, visiting 'Ladies of Llangollen'; 7 (Glendalough; Celbridge: and Swift's 'Vanessa'; mobbed on Dublin visit) Shannon, River : 4 (chapter section); 6 (beginning, Castleconnel: Wordsworth) Shaw, George Bernard : 5 (Castlehaven,Cork; Glengarriff, Kerry); 7 (Dublin Bay, Dalkey; and note 30) Sheehan, Patrick (Canon): 4 (Cork: Mallow; Doneraile: Glenanaar ; The Graves at Kilmorna) Shelley, Harriet: 5 (Killarney; note 56); 7 (Dublin, note 75 ) Shelley, Mary (Godwin): 4 (Mitchelstown, Cork) Shelley, Percy Bysshe : 4 (Mitchelstown, Cork); Curragh Chase, Askeaton, Limerick: Aubrey de Vere); 5 (Killarney, and note 56); 7 (Dublin: and note 75) Sheridan, Richard Brinsley : 1 (Clandeboye: Helen Dufferin); 2 (east Cavan: Quilca house; and note 51) Sheridan, Thomas, the elder: 2 (Quilca: friend of Swift) Sheridan, Thomas, the younger: 2 (Quilca: note 51) Sidney, Sir Henry : 1 (Rathlin island: reporting massacre) Silone, Ignazio : 6 (Galway: visiting Kate O'Brien) Simmons, James : 1 (beginning: From the Irish ; Islandmagee); 6 (end: Derry: Ulster says Yes ) Skelligs : 5 (island rocks, ancient monasteries; Geoffrey Grigson Slane , Co.Meath: 2 (Francis Ledwidge) Slemish (mountain), Co.Antrim: 1 (beginning: St Patrick; Bangor; 'Navan Fort'; landmark; [illustration] ) Slieve Luachra , Co.Kerry/ Cork: 5 (Killarney: poets' refuge) Slievenamon (mountain), Co.Tipperary: 4 (Charles Kickham; Finn legend; Kilcash poem) Sligo town: 6 Smerwick, Co.Kerry: 4 (Youghal: Walter Ralegh); 5 (Dingle peninsula: massacre 1580) Smith, Charles (topographer): 5 (Glandore, south Cork: Swift exploring caves) Somerville, Edith Œnone : 5 (Castletownshend: 'Somerville and Ross'; and note 29); 6 (Through Connemara in a Governess-cart ; Ballinahinch; Renvyle) [illustration: the Cousins] Spenser, Edmund : 3 (Donegal: Anglicizing Ireland; north Donegal: the Doon Rock ceremony); 4 (Youghal: and Ralegh; Kilcredan: effigy of his widow; Mallow: on famine; Doneraile: meeting with Ralegh; Kilcolman: estate and castle; Faerie Queene landscape; views on Ireland and Irish poetry; Epithalamium; Colin Clout's Come Home Again ; castle burnt); 5 (Smerwick: possibly witnessed massacre) Spenser, Elizabeth (Boyle): 4 note 12 Spiddal , Co.Galway 6 (Martin O Cadhain) Spike Island , Cobh harbour, Cork: 5 (John Mitchel, prisoner) 'Stella' , see Johnson, Esther Stephens, James : 1 ('Navan Fort', Armagh: on Deirdre; Tara: In the Land of Youth ; and note 31); 3 (Rathcrogan: the 'Cattle Raid'); 5 (Blarney: on Ó Bruadair; praises 'The Groves of Blarney'); 7 (Dublin: Kilmainham Gaol executions; St Stephen's Green: witnesses ; writings; Ely Place: George Moore advising on etiquette; and notes 48-9) [illustration] Sterne, Laurence : 4 (born in Clonmel); 7 note 22 (Annamoe) Strangford Lough , Co.Down: 1 Stuart, Francis : 7 (Glendalough: Yeats helping; Glenmalure: Synge's The Shadow of the Glen ; and German spy in 1940; Redemption ) Stuart, Iseult (Gonne): 7 (Glendalough: Yeats's proposal; with her mother helping Hermann Goetz) Sweeney, King (Suibhne): 1 (Moira battle, St Ronan's curse; man-bird; ; Sweeney's Flight , Seamus Heaney); 4 (Shannonbridge: Devenish Island; St Mullins, Carlow: St Moling's blessing); 7 (Dublin: At Swim-Two-Birds , Flann O'Brien) Swift, Jonathan : 1 and note 10 (Co.Antrim: Templecorran, Ballinure, Kilroot: preaching; Tale of a Tub ; Markethill, Armagh: chops down fairy thorn); 2 (Laracor, Meath: T.H.White's view; and Stella; Quilca, Cavan: teasing Sr); 4 (Kilkenny: school; Cashel: cathedral); 5 (south Cork: Union Hall; Carberiae Rupes ; Castlehaven, Castletownshend); 7 (Merrion Strand: assault; Celbridge: 'Vanessa'; Cadenus and Vanessa ; St Patrick's cathedral; Letitia Pilkington describes; On the Death of Mrs Johnson ) Swilly, Lough : 3 (Inishowen peninsula; Rathmullen: 'Flight of the Earls') Symons, Arthur: 6 (visitor to Aran islands) Synge, John Millington : 1 (Navan Fort: play on Deirdre; and note 78); 2 (beginning: 'romance in the West'); 3 (Tyrone, Carleton: Synge catching Irish talk); 6 (Galway: The Aran Islands ; Riders to the Sea ; the 'Celtic Dawn'); 7 (in Wicklow hills: The Shadow of the Glen ; and Abbey Theatre)

Táin Bó Cúailnge , see 'Cattle Raid of Cooley, The' Tara , Co.Meath: 1 (and 'Navan Fort', Armagh); 2 (Moore and AE on; James Stephens: In the Land of Youth ; and note 31); 4 (Killaloe: as coronation site) [illustration: 9th century brooch] Taylor, Jeremy , Bishop: 1 ( Liberty of Prophesying ; Ballinderry, Co.Antrim; Dromore, Co.Down: Holy Dying ) Temple, Sir William: 1 note 10 (Swift) Templecorran , Co.Antrim: 1 (Swift) Tennyson, Alfred : 1 (Clandeboye: verse on Helen's Tower); 3 (Ballyshannon: friendship with Allingham; Derry: praises Mrs Alexander); 4 (Askeaton, Limerick: friendship with de Vere); 5 (Kerry: Valentia, Ballybunion: waves; poem in Irish dialect, Tomorrow ) Terryglass , Lough Derg(derc), Co.Tipperary: 4 Thackeray, William Makepeace : 1 (Belfast: enjoys Mulholland's linen mill; 15; dislikes Giant's Causeway); 5 (Cork: horror-struck and admiring; Glengariff, Kerry; resists Killarney); 6 (Connemara: Ballinahinch, 236); 7 (Dun Laoghaire) 'The Tailor and Anstey': 5 ( Gougare Barra; Killarney) Thomas, Dylan: 3 (Glen Anaffrin, south Donegal: Geoffrey Grigson) Thomson, David : 3 (Lough Key, Roscommon: Woodbrook ) (Yeats's Norman tower) 6 (south Galway) Tighe, Mary : 4 note 95 (Woodstock, Inistioge, Kilkenny: Psyche ; mausoleum) Timoleague , Co.Cork: 4 (Lismore: codex; south Cork: abbey and poems) Tipperary town: 4 Tír na nÓg (Land of Youth): 1 (end: Oisin; and note 92); 2 note 14 ( Aengus Óg's Dream ); 3 (Rathcrogan); 6 (Belmullet) Tocnaye , chevalier de la, see Latocnaye , chevalier de Tocqueville, Alexis de : 4 (Kilkenny); 5 (Cork) Toland, John : 3 note 62 (Inishowen; Derry) Tolkien, J.R.R .: 1 (Belfast: on C.S.Lewis) Toomregan , ? near Milltown, Co.Cavan (ancient schools of learning): 1 (Moira); 3 (Cavan: Drumlane round tower) Traynor, Father: 5 (Gougane Barra, 'The Tailor') Trevor, William : 1 ('Navan Fort, Armagh: on the Tain / 'Cattle Raid') Trim , Co.Meath: 2 (T.H.White) Trinity College, Dublin : 2 (statue of Goldsmith); 4 (Berkeley); 7 (Mangan in, seen by John Mitchel; end: Book of Kells) Trollope, Anthony : 3 (Drumsna, Leitrim/ Rocommon: The Macdermots of Ballycloran ; and note 13 ); 4 (Mallow, Cork: note 32; Banagher, Offaly; Clonmel, Tipperary: Bianconi, and note 104); 6 (Cliffs of Moher, Clare: An Eye for an Eye ) Tuamgraney , Co. Clare: 5 (Edna O'Brien)

Tubbrid, Co.Tipperary: 4 (Glen of Aherlow: Geoffrey Keating) Tulira Castle , Ardrahan, Co.Galway: 6 (Edward Martyn) , Co.Offaly: 4 (Shannonbridge: Flann O'Brien)

Tullynally , see Pakenham Hall Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens): 3 (Fahan, Inishowen: reciting Mrs Alexander's Burial of Moses )

Uisneach , Hill of, Co. Westmeath: 2 Urnea , Co.Louth: 2 (graveyard, near Forkhill (Armagh): Peadar Ó Diornín; end: Moybolgue)

Valentia , Kerry: 5 (Tennyson: waves) 'Vanessa' (Esther Vanhomrigh): 4 notes 20 (Berkeley) and 106 (Cashel); 5 (Glandore, south Cork: Swift's tour); 7 (Celbridge: Swift; Cadenus and Vanessa ; and note 41) Ventry (Finntraigh), Co.Kerry: 5 note 47 Vikings: 1 (Bangor, Co.Down; Nendrum; Strangford Lough); 2 note 47 (Lough Owel, Westmeath: story of ); 3 (Donegal); 4 (Killaloe, Clare: Brian Boru; Clonmacnois); 7 (Howth, Dublin)

Waddell, Helen : 1 (Belfast: 'Ulster's Darling'; versus Dorothy L.Sayers; Nendrum: translations; The Wandering Scholars ; Down/ Armagh landscape: 'earthly paradise'; 7 (Kildare: St Brigit; Sedulius Scotus poem) Waugh, Evelyn : 2 (Pakenham Hall); 4 note 29 (Lismore: Edmund Campion) Wesley, John: 2 (Mullagh, east Cavan: admired Henry Brooke's Fool of Quality ) Westport , Co.Mayo: 6 (De Quincey; 'George A.Birmingham) Wexford town: 4 White, T.H .: 2 (Trim, Meath: tirade on the climate; The Elephant and the Kangaroo ; and note 33); 6 (Croagh Patrick; The Godstone and the Blackymor ; Sheskin, north Mayo: bogland, river Oweniny; Belmullet; Inishkea) Whitechurch, Co.Cork: 5 (Bards; Daniel Corkery) Wicklow Hills (or Mountains): 7 Wilde, Jane Francesca (Elgee): 4 (Wexford: Oscar's mother; 'Speranza': nationalist verses); 7 (Dublin: Mangan) Wilde, Oscar : 2 note 43 (Longford: his sister); 6 (Connemara-Mayo: Lough Fee fishing lodge); 7 note 19 (Wicklow) Wilde. Sir William : 4 (note 3; Banagher: school); 6 and note 33 (Galway; Lough Corrib; Lough Fee ); 7 (Glendalough; and note 19) Wittgenstein, Ludwig: 6 (Connemara: Salrock) Wollstonecraft, Mary (Godwin): 4 (Mitchelstown) Woodbrook house, Co.Roscommon: 3 (David Thomson: Woodbrook ) Woodford , Co.Galway: 4 note 73 (Wilfred Scawen Blunt) Woods, Vincent: 1 note 78 (Deirdre); 3 note 16 (Leitrim) Woodstock house, Inistioge, Kilkenny: 4 (Borris, Sarah Ponsonby; note 95 (Mary Tighe); Hubert Butler) Woolf, Virginia: 4 (Bowen's Court: 'a stone box'; [illustration]) Wordsworth, Dorothy: 6 (Ballylee: examples of poems from others' observation) Wordsworth, William : 1 (Dromore: admires Percy's Reliques of Ancient ; 2 (Edgeworthstown, Longford: visiting Edgeworths); 4 (Askeaton, Limerick: friend of de Vere senior; Cashel: praises de Vere sonnet; 6 (beginning: Castleconnell, boat on the Shannon); 7 (Dublin, Glasnevin Observatory: described reading)

Yeats, George (W.B.'s wife): 6 (staying at Coole with cat); Thoor Ballylee); 7 (Glendalough: Yeats letter to) Yeats, Jack B. : 6 (Loughrea cathedral; Sligo: Benedict Kiely) Yeats, Lily (W.B.'s sister): 6 (Sligo, end: on Lake Isle tourism) Yeats, William Butler : 1 (Donegore, Antrim: on Samuel Ferguson; Belfast: friend of Forrest Reid; Navan Fort, Armagh: play on Deirdre story, and note 78); 2 (beginning: on the 'Cattle Raid'; and Dunsany); 3 (and Douglas Hyde; Lough Key; Donegal town: on Mangan); 4 (Cloyne, south Cork: on Berkeley; Tipperary: and O'Leary; Inistioge, Kilkenny: on Standish O'Grady; translating 'Kilcash' with O'Connor; Inch Strand: borrowing from O'Connor's O'Rahilly translation); 6 (Aran islands: encouraging Synge; Ardrahan, south Galway: beginnings of Irish Revival; at Coole Park [illustration, with George Moore]: O'Connor on unsuitable epitaph [illustration]; Edward Martyn caricature; Thoor Ballylee: [illustration] ; Renvyle: rebuking ghosts; Sligo: childhood, discovery of legends: ; Knocknarea, ; Man and Echo ; Cathleen ni Houlihan : late doubts; Lough Gill, the Lake Isle [illustration]; Lissadell; grave at Drumcliff; on Allingham); 7 (at Hill of Allen; at Glendalough: helps Francis Stuart; Howth: influence of Ferguson; Dublin: V.S.Pritchett at Merrion Square; St Stephen's Green: walking 'as though through empty space'; Abbey Theatre: remote style of plays) Youghal , Co.Cork: 4 (Walter Ralegh) Young, Arthur (agronomist): 4 (Mitchelstown); 5 (Blarney; Derrynane, Kerry: probable ignorance of literary Irish)