Chapter IV

P. 70.—Kingdom of Cashel. Cp. the remarks of Rhŷs, _Studies in Early Irish History_, p. 31.

P. 74.—Solar worship. Patrick, _Confession_, p. 374. Cormac’s _Glossary_, _s.v._ indelba. It has been suggested that a circle on an inscribed (ogam) stone, which seems to be oriented, at Drumlusk, near Kenmare, is connected with solar worship (Macalister, _Studies in Irish Epigraphy_, ii. 116-7). Cp. H. Gaidoz, “Le dieu gaulois du soleil et le symbolisme de la roue,” _Rev. arch._ 1884 and 1885.

_Ib._—Pillar worship. Patrick, _ib._ p. 369. For the idol Cromm Cruach, see p. 306. Cp. the stone of worship (_ail adrada_) in _Ancient laws_, iv. 142.

P. 76.—For white dress of Druids, see Tírechán, p. 325-6. For their tonsure see Appendix A, i. 4.

P. 79.—Muirchu, 273-4. “Adzehead” was evidently meant as a nickname for the tonsured monk. I have given the oracle as it is found in Muirchu’s Latin rendering. He must have known the prophecy in a different form from the Irish version which is preserved in the glosses on the Hymn _Genair Patraicc_ (_Liber Hymnorum_, i. p. 100): “Adzehead will come, over the mad-crested sea, his cloak hole-head, his staff crook-head, his table in the west of his house; all his household will answer Amen, Amen.” See Atkinson, _ib._ ii. 181-2, and my article on the “Tradition of Muirchu’s Text,” p. 203 (in _Hermathena_, 28, 1902).