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Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and hyphenation were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Spelling was not thoroughly checked and most spelling variants were retained, although some Index entries were changed to match the spelling on the pages they referenced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed at the end of the text, just before the Index.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Text mostly uses “cairn,” but sometimes uses “carn;” both retained here.
The List of Illustrations includes a reference to “NEWTOWNTRIM ABBEY, CO. MEATH” on page 367, but the original book does not contain that illustration anywhere.
The ornate illustrated drop cap on pages 80 and 362 is the word “In.”
Page 348: Original text contained a transcription in Irish. Here, it is displayed as an illustration in HTML versions, and just referenced in Plain Text.