72 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Districts Board has already benefited the people greatly, and opened 

 up to them a brighter future. J^'ew dTrellings hare been built, of a 

 type suited to the climate, and composed of materials obtainable on 

 the island, and old ones improved. The commonage has been sepa- 

 rated from the arable land by a wall running the whole length of the 

 island ; holdings have been enlarged and properly fenced ; accommo- 

 dation roads made ; the fishermen instructed in new methods, &c. In 

 the course of these works, the people developed, after a time, abilities 

 hardly expected of them at first ; they proved quick to learn and able 

 to work, and they take a pride in telling the stranger that they have 

 paid off their arrears of rent, due to the Congested Districts Board, 

 out of the wages got from theii' work, without one single case of 

 default. 



IX. — BiBLIOGEAPHT. 



(This list does not profess to be exhaustive.) 

 Aecbdail. — " jMonasticon Hibernicon." 

 " Ajinals of the Four blasters" {cf. 0'Do:N"ovAjr). 



ruLMAK Peteel. — " Grania Uaile." (London, T. Fisher TJnwin. 1895). 

 Lewis. — " Gazeteer of Ireland" (1837). 

 MacFiEEIS, DrALD {cf. O'DoxovAx). 

 ]^Iaxwell, ^^ H.— " The Dark Lady of Doona." 

 " ^^ational Gazeteer" (1868). 

 O'DoxovAx, John : 



"MS. Letters to the Ordnance Survey of Ireland."^ ISTow in- 



the Libraiy of the Royal Irish Academy. 

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

 Masters. Translated and annotated by Johij 0'Do>"oyAN, 

 XL.n. 

 "The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy Fiachrach,. 

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

 of Lecan in the Eoyal Irish Academy, and from the 

 Genealogical MS. of Duald Mac Firbis, in the Library 

 of Lord Eoden" (Dublin, 1844). 

 Official : 



" Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland " (Dublin, 1846). 

 " Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland." 

 Annual Eeport of the Congested Districts Board, 1896. 

 Ptoyal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland: — Programme o£ 

 Excursion, 1895. 



