INDEX Chapters 1 North-East -- 2 East Midlands -- 3 North-West -- 4 South and Centre -- 5 South-West -- 6 West -- 7 Dublin Places in bold. Names of writers and texts in italics . Chapter number and nearest place given. Abbey Theatre, Dublin : 6 (Coole Park); 7 (Dublin centre) Achill Island , Co.Mayo: 6 Adare , Co.Limerick: 4 AE see Russell, George Aed Ruadh (fire-god): 2 (Ballyshannon) Aengus Óg (Celtic god of love): 2 (Boyne valley) Aengus of the poisoned spear: 2 (Uisneach) Aherlow, Glen of, Co.Tipperary): 4 Aideen's Grave (dolmen): 7 (Howth) Ailill (consort of Queen Maeve): 3 (Rathcrogan, Roscommon) Aine, hill of , Co Limerick: 4 (Knockainey) aisling (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 (Inishowen, Derry) Alexande r, William , Archbishop (Primate) of Armagh: 3 (Inishowen) Allen, Hill of , Co. Kildare: 7 Allingham , William : 3 and note 37 (Ballyshannon, S.Donegal); 5 (Valencia, Kerry: and Tennyson); 6 (Sligo: and Yeats) Anaffrin, Lough , Co. Donegal: 3 (Geoffrey Grigson) Annaghdown , Lough Corrib, Galway: 6 note 37 (drowning disaster: Raftery) Annals : 1 note 45 Annals of the Four Masters : 3 (Rathcrogan (Roscommon); Lough Erne (Fermanagh); Bundoran (S.Donegal); Donegal town; Inishowen (Derry) 'Flight of the Earls'); 4 (Terryglass); 7 (Royal Irish Academy, ms) Annals of Ulster : 1 (Moira) and King Sweeney Annals of Westmeath (1907): 2 (Uisneach) Antrim, Glens of : 1 Antrim town, Round Tower: 1 Aran Islands , Co.Galway: 6 Ardagh , Co.Longford, 2 (Oliver Goldsmith) Ardee (Ath Ferdiadh), Co.Louth: 2 (Cuchullainn) Ardrahan , Co.Galway: 6 (Edward Martyn) Ards peninsula , Co.Down: 1 Armada, Spanish: 5 (Blasket islands); and 3 note 36 Armagh city : 1 Asseroe , Ballyshannon: 3 (William Allingham) Aughrim, Battle of (1691): 6 (Clifden: Richard Murphy poem) Avoca , Wicklow Hills: 7 note22 (Thomas Moore) Bairead , Riocard (Richard Barrett): 6 (Belmullet) Ballinahinch Castle , 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 (Dingle peninsula): 5 Ballyhoura Mountains , Co.Cork: 4 (Spenser) Ballylaneen , Co.Waterford: 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) Ballyskeagh , Co.Down: 1 (birthplace of Bronte father) Ballyvourney , Co.Cork: 5 (Irish language centre) Balor of the Evil Eye: 3 note 49 (Tory island) Banagher , Co. Offaly: 4 (Charlotte Bronte) Bangor , Co.Down: 1 (Strangford Lough, early monasteries) Banim , John and Michael : 4 (Kilkenny) and note 94 Bannow , Co.Wexford: 4 (Thomas Moore) Barnacle, Nora (Joyce): 6 note 37 (Galway) Banville , John : 4 note 2 (Wexford) Bardic Schools: 4 (Youghal); 5 (Cork, Ballyvourney). Barrahane, Saint.: 5 (Castlehaven, south Cork: holy well) Basterot, comte Florimond de: 6 (Durrus, Kinvara, 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 (Wicklow mountains) 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, Abbey Theatre, imitating Maud Gonne) Belfrage, Sally : 1 note 38 (Belfast) Bell, Dr: 4 (Banagher, uncle of Arthur Nicholls) Bell, Sam Hanna : 1 (Strangford Lough, December Bride ; Coleraine, on Ulster). Bellaghy , Co.Derry: 1 (Seamus Heaney; Sweeney tales) Belmullet , Co.Mayo: 6 (T.H.White, 'Richard Barrett') Berkeley, George , Bishop: 4 (Cloyne, south Cork; and note 20: legacy from Swift's 'Vanessa') Betjeman, John : 2 (Uisneach; Pakenham Hall) Bianconi, Charles: 4 (Clonmel, 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 (Clandeboye, Co.Down) Blarney , Co.Cork: 5 Blasket Islands , Co.Kerry: 5 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of: 4 note l04 (Clonmel) Blunt, Wilfred Scawen : 4 note73 (Portumna, Co.Galway); 6 (Coole Park, on Yeats and Lady Gregory) 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 Ireland; 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 (Killarney) Bourget, Paul: 6 note 9 (de Basterot) Bowen, Elizabeth : 1 (Belfast, on Henry James); 4 (Mallow, Co.Cork; Doneraile, 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; Newgrange tumuli; Rosnaree; and note 11) Bray, Lough , Co.Wicklow: 7 (Gogarty's picnic at) Brendan, Saint (the Voyager): 5 note 47 (Ballyferriter) Brian Boru, 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 (Kilkee, Co.Clare) Bronte, Patrick: 1 (Ballyskeagh, Co.Down, and note 63); 4 (Banagher, Arthur Nicholls and) Brooke, Charlotte : 2 (Mullagh, east Cavan; Reliques of Irish Poetry , and notes 43, 53); 3 (north Donegal) Brooke, Henry : 2 (Mullagh; Brookiana ) Brown, Charles (friend of Keats): 1 (Donaghadee, Co.Down) and note 61 Brown, Valentine (landowner): 5 (Blarney, satire by O'Rahilly) Bruce, Robert, King of Scotland: 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 (Lough Gur, Co.Limerick; The Farm by Lough Gur ) Cark Mountain , north Donegal: 3 (Stephen Gwynn) Carleton, William : 3 (Clogher, Co.Tyrone, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry ; Lough Derg; 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, Turlough (harpist): 2 (Edgeworthstown, Co.Longford; Quilca, east Cavan); 3 Ballyfarnan, Co.Roscommon) Carra, Lough , Co.Mayo: 6 (George Moore) Carrickfergus , Co.Antrim: 2 (Louis MacNeice) Carriganimmy , north-east Cork: 5 (Art O'Leary) Carrowdore , Ards Peninsula: 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 (Drumcliff, Sligo); 7 (Royal Irish Academy) Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúailnge ): 1 (Antrim; 'Navan Fort', Co.Armagh); 2 (Cooley peninsula, and note 39); 3 Rathcrogan, Co.Roscommon); 4 (Curragh Chase: de Vere; Terryglass, Co.Tipperary); 6 (Sligo: Yeats) Celbridge , Co.Kildare: 7 (Swift's 'Vanessa') Cenn Faelad (ancient scholar),: 1 (Moira, Co.Down); 3 (Drumlane, Milltown, Co.Cavan) Charles I, King of England: 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) Chichester, Sir Arthur : 1 (Carrickfergus, Co.Antrim)) Chiericati, Francesco (papal nuncio): 1 note 62 (Downpatrick, Co.Down, Struell Wells); 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: Douglas Hyde); 6 (on Galway cathedral); 7 (Kilmainham, and note 45; Abbey theatre: Yeats at) Clarke, Harry (stained glass artist): 4 (Killaloe) Cleggan , 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) Cobh , Co.Cork: 5 Coleraine , Co.Derry: 1 Coleridge , S.T .: 1 (Dromore,