O'Eeilly — On the Kerry Straw Cloah Exhibit. 7 



the time of the Eomans. The round or circular thatched cottage of 

 the Galician Celt shown on the column of Trajan prevailed in that 

 pro^-ince down to quite modem times ; and Murguia describes it, and 

 gives a woodcut representing the hamlet of " Las Portillas " (on the 

 high road from Orenseto Castillo), which contained, down to relatively 

 recent times, round and low cottages covered with thatch. 



p. 90. — In one of the villages I observed a number of women, 

 decked out in all their ornaments, sitting under a tree, whilst the young 

 fellows were dancing before them to the pleasant and melodious notes of 

 a bagpipe (instrument characteristic of the Celtic races), accompanied 

 by castanets which they held in their hands, and little bells that were 

 fastened to their legs — not the least trace of the Andalucian, the Man- 

 chan, or Castillian Spaniard, except language, and that much vitiated." 



p. 91. — At Fuen Cevadon, taking notice of a prodigious heap of 

 loose stones, with a wooden cross on the top of them, my fellow- 

 travellers told me that each ' Gallego ' returning to his own country 

 makes it a rule to throw a stone on this pile ; thus by accumulation it 

 has formed a considerable mound." 



p. 94. — " Passed the village of Campo de Narraya, when we came 

 into a hilly country, the lands enclosed ; the women wore handker- 

 chiefs round their heads as in Ireland ; passed a great many villages 

 wherein I noticed that the houses were substantially built of stone 

 and strongly thatched, which becomes necessary, as the rain, I suppose 

 in winter, must pour down in great torrents ; saw abundance of hogs 

 and a great many chestnut trees." 



p. 97. — "Betanzos; market day; many people assembled from the 

 country. The women had much better countenances than in other 

 parts of the kingdom, fresh countenances with fine black eyes and 

 hair ; they wore not shoes or stockings." 



p. 105. — " This province (Galicia) is famous for small but strong 

 breed of horses, which are very cheap." 



p. 123. — " Eraga. This day there was a fair here, at which 

 there was a great deal of coarse linen, cloth, some small cattle, 

 crockery ware, and wooden shoes called 'galloches'" (Littre gives 

 as etymology : "Espanol, 'gallocha.' On le tire du Latin ' Crallicce,'* 

 sorte de chaussure gauloise.") 



p. 128. — All through this countiy from Valenqa there is a kind 

 of carriage, like the Irish car, drawn by oxen, yoked to the neck. 

 The wheels are never greased, on purpose, as they told me, that they 

 might give notice to one another in the naiTow roads which prevail 

 all through the northern part of the country." 



