Excerpt from On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Vol. 2: A Series of Lectures Banqueting Hall of Tara in the time of Cormac Mac Airt, as given by Dr. Petrie; no record of the changes which took place at Tara subsequent to that time. Residences of the monarchs of Erinn after the desertion of Tara. Desertion of other celebrated royal residences - Emam'a, Cruaclzan, etc. Division of the people into classes; this division did not impose perpetuity of caste; increase of wealth enabled a man to pass from one rank to ...
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Excerpt from On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Vol. 2: A Series of Lectures Banqueting Hall of Tara in the time of Cormac Mac Airt, as given by Dr. Petrie; no record of the changes which took place at Tara subsequent to that time. Residences of the monarchs of Erinn after the desertion of Tara. Desertion of other celebrated royal residences - Emam'a, Cruaclzan, etc. Division of the people into classes; this division did not impose perpetuity of caste; increase of wealth enabled a man to pass from one rank to another; crime alone barred this advancement; the qualifications as to furniture and houses of the several classes of Aires or landholders; fines for injury to the house of the Airs Beire' Breitlze'; of the Airs Desa of the aire-ard; of the Aire Forgaill of the king of a territory. Law against damage or disfigurement of buildings and furniture of the house of a B6 Aire; of the house of an aire-desa; of the house of an aire-taise; of the house of an aire-ard. Law directing the provision to be made for aged men. Shape of houses in ancient Erinn construction of the round house; reference to the building of such a house in an Irish life of St. Colman Ela; a similar story told of St. Cumin Fada. No instance recorded of an ecclesiastical edifice built of wicker work; two instances of the building of oratories of wood - story of the oratory of St. Zpioh'ng; quatrain of Rumand Mac Colmaz'n on the oratory of Ratban Ua Suanaiglz account of Rumand writing a poem for the Galls of Dublin; he carries his wealth to Cill Belaigk state ment of seven streets of Gal/s or foreigners at that place; import ance of the account of Rumand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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