Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Acknowledgments VIII
5. Introduction 1
6. The Irish Cosmos Revisited 10
7. A Gaelic Eschatological Folktale, Celtic Cosmology and Dumézil’s “Three Realms” 34
8. The Relationship of the Chthonic World in Early Ireland to Chaos and Cosmos 53
9. The Cave of Crúachain and the Otherworld 77
10. The Location of the Promised Land in Hiberno- Latin Literature 93
11. The Word of God and Early Medieval Irish Cosmology 112
12. The Creation of the World in Saltair na Rann 144
13. Tara and Cashel 165
14. Roads and Knowledge in Togail Bruidne Da Derga 186
15. Leisure and Recreation in an Age of Clearance 207
16. Pagan Beliefs and Christian Redress in Acallam na Senórach 249
17. Landscape and Cosmology in the Dindshenchas 268
18. Bibliography 284
19. Contributors 312