¹Gregory, Lady Augusta. "Legends of the Raths, as Narrated to Lady Gregory." Galway Archeological and Historical Society 2 (1902): 116-17.

²Murphy, Barney. "Ballymacdermot Tomb." Personal interview. 26 June 1998.

³Graves, Robert. The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. 93.
In a 1909 journal article, Mary Hobson, writing about a souterrain in Northern Ireland states, "The building of them is nearly always attributed to the 'Danes,' the 'Fairies,' the 'Good People,' or in rare instances to the Picts. The Danes here referred to are not the modern Danes, but probably the Tuatha-da-Danaan, a people who are said to have lived in Ireland before the coming of the Celts." (Hobson, Mary. "Some Ulster Souterrains." The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 39.January-June (1909): 226-27.)

⁴Wilde, W. R. Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands: with Notices of Lough Mask. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1867. 92-3.

⁵Ffrench, J. F. M. Prehistoric Faith and Worship Glimpses of Ancient Irish Life. London: D. Nutt, 1912.

⁶ "Fingal." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 25 Mar. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingal#Vikings_and_Hiberno-Norse>.

⁷Weir, Anthony. "Language Homophony." Message to the author. 24 Mar. 2011. E-mail.

⁸Jones, Carleton. Temples of Stone: Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Cork: Collins, 2007. 141-43.

⁹Collins, A. E. P., B. C. S. Wilson, and Frederick W. Gay. "The Excavation of a Court Cairn at Ballymacdermot, Co. Armagh." Ulster Journal of Archaeology 27 (1964): 10.
The broken stones have since been repaired.

¹⁰Collins 18-20.

¹¹McGinn, Pat, and Noreen Cunningham. The Gap of the North: The Archaeology & Folklore of Armagh, Down, Louth and Monaghan. Dublin: O' Brien, 2001. 30.

¹²McGinn 31.

¹³Murphy, Barney.

¹⁴Leerssen, Joep. Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame in Association with Field Day, 1997. 102-3.

¹⁵Ó Súilleabháin, Seán. A Handbook of Irish Folklore. Dublin: Folklore of Ireland Society, 1942. v-vi.

The illustration of pottery sherds and worked flint is taken from:
Collins, A. E. P., B. C. S. Wilson, and Frederick W. Gay. "The Excavation of a Court Cairn at Ballymacdermot, Co. Armagh." Ulster Journal of Archaeology 27 (1964): 16.