Contents
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.
Wooded nature of the country. Wild animals. Climatic changes. Lakes. Lake-dwellings of all countries.
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.
Weapons and Tools. Armour. Stone Moulds
Hammer-stones. Mammalia. Butter. Yokes. Piscatory Implements
Grain-rubbers. Querns. Human remains. Fireplaces on the shore. Pottery. Wooden vessels. Drinking cups. Wooden mallets. “Whorls.” Colouring-matter. Spinning.
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.
Harps and Harp Pins, Trumpets, &c.
Chess a game of great antiquity in Ireland—anecdotes of; game-board. Counters or discs of bone, perforated and unperforated. Stone chessman.
Ogham, Inscriptions in — Anecdotes of
Coins Found in Crannogs — Anecdotes of
Saddle, Bronze Cheek-Pieces, Iron Bits, and Enamelled Plates
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.
Extracts from State documents and the Irish Annals, tracing their existence from the seventeenth century back to prehistoric times.
Part II
DESCRIPTION AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ALL KNOWN LACUSTRINE SITES IN IRELAND, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN OR AROUND THEM.