Browne — Ethnography of Inishhofin and Inishshark. 369 



stated by some to be an Anglicized form of a "well-known Irish tribe 

 name ; the seven remaining surnames seem to be modern English. 



Of the 212 families now living on the islands 20^ have surnames 

 of modern English or Scottish origin — 29 Anglo-Norman or "Welsh, 

 22 are Scuffles, 17 Lavelles, and the remaining 134 bear more or less 

 Anglicized forms of old Irish names. It may be concluded from this 

 that the population is, on the whole, not much mixed with any 

 element which might not be expected to be found in western Con- 

 naught. 



IX. BiBLIOGEAPHT. 



The literature relating to the islands is very scanty, but the 

 following make some mention of them : — 



Booth, Sm Heistky W. Goee : — "The Basking Shark." — Longman's 

 Magazine, vol. xix., p. 59, 1891. 



The Eotjr Masters {Cf. O'Donovaw). 



Haddon, Pkof. a. C. : — "A Batch of Irish Folk-Lore." — Eolk-Lore, 



vol. iv., p. 349, 1893. 

 Habjdiman, J. (Cy. O'Elaheett). 

 Mac Fiebis, Dtjaxd {Cf. O'Donovan). 

 Lewis: — " Gazetteer of Ireland," 1837. 



O'DoNOVAX, John : 



"MS. Letters to the Ordnance Survey of Ireland." jN'ow in 



the Library of the Eoyal Irish Academy. 

 " The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland," by the Eour 



Masters. Translated and annotated by John" O'Doi^ovan, 



XL.D. 



"The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy Eiachrach, 

 commonly called O'Dowda's Country. Erom the Book 

 of Lecan in the Eoyal Irish Academy, and from the 

 Genealogical MS. of Duald Mac Eirbis, in the Library 

 of Lord Eoden."— Dublin, 1844. 



O'Elaheett, E. : 



"A Chorographical description of "West or H-Iar Connaught," 

 1684. — Edited in 1846 by James Hardiman. 



' Including the landlord's. 

 K.I. A. PEOC, SEE. III., VOL. III. 2 C 



