¹Taylor, Lawrence J. Occasions of Faith: an Anthropology of Irish Catholics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1995. 61.

²Taylor 58.
Quoting O'Donovan, John, Thomas O'Connor, P. (Patrick) O'Keeffe, and Michael Herity. Ordnance Survey Letters Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1837, 1838, and 1839. Dublin: Four Masters, 2002. 120-21.

³Taylor 58.
Quoting O'Donovan, John, Thomas O'Connor, P. (Patrick) O'Keeffe, and Michael Herity. Ordnance Survey Letters Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1837, 1838, and 1839. Dublin: Four Masters, 2002. 120-21.
"On the summit of the gloomy mountain of Slieve Leag are yet shewn the ruins of the little cell of Aodh Mac Bric...A most solemn turas was performed here in the memory of the last generation, but he liveth not now who could point out all the hallowed spots to be visited and prayed at, so that it has been abandoned as a station of pilgrimage to the rapid oblivion of the name and fame of the solitary Bishop Aidus."

⁴Price, Liam. "Glencolumbkille, County Donegal, and Its Early Christian Cross-Slabs." The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Seventh 11.3 (1941): 72.

⁵Taylor 60.
Quoting O'Donovan, John, Thomas O'Connor, P. (Patrick) O'Keeffe, and Michael Herity. Ordnance Survey Letters Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1837, 1838, and 1839. Dublin: Four Masters, 2002. 127.

⁶Price 71-88. Photographs credited to "T. H. Mason"

⁷Herity, Michael. Gleanncholmcille: A guide to 5,000 years of history in stone. Dublin: Na Clocha Breaca, 1998. 16.

⁸Cunningham, Gerard. Turas Cholm Cille - A Pocket Guide. Dublin: Faduca, 2010. 5.

⁹Harbison, Peter. Pilgrimage in Ireland: the Monuments and the People. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ., 1992. 109.

¹⁰Cunningham 6.

¹¹Price 74.

¹²Price 74.
On p. 55, the author quotes John Ewing (Statistical Return of Glencolumbkille, 1823:2): "There is a stone of very particular use in curing head aches which must be lodged every night in St Columb's bed but is generally taken off every morning through the parish. I was not fortunate enough to see it tho' I called twice—but each time it was out on duty."

¹³Price 74.

¹⁴Taylor 67.

¹⁵Price 75.

¹⁶"Farranmacbride Court Tomb." Megalithic Ireland. Web. 19 May 2011. <http://www.megalithicireland.com/Farranmacbride%20Court%20Tomb.html>.

¹⁷McGinley, Séamus "'Cloch na Súil (The Stone of the eye)." Message to the author. 7 Jan. 2011. E-mail.
"Cloch na Súil" is also the name for Station Eight used by Turas leader Jimmy Carr in the video interview (1999) on this site.

¹⁸"Interview Note." Bealoideas: Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society VI (1936): 162. From a card on file at the Department of Folklore, University College, Dublin. 1979.
Voices from the Dawn features other such "holed stones," including the Aghade Holed Stone, the Tobernaveen Holed Stone, and the Doagh Holed Stone.

¹⁹Wood-Martin, W. G. Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland. Vol. 2.. London: Longmans, Green, & Co. 1902. 242.

²⁰Cunningham 18.
The author explains that the name of this ruined church comes from a legend first recorded by a local schoolteacher in the mid-nineteenth century. The story is that a priest found a dying Spaniard near Sliabh Liag, and as he performed the last rites the Spaniard gave him a purse of gold coins and asked him to build a church with it. Cunningham states that this legend may be but a cover story for how the local community—where smuggling of Spanish wine and tobacco was lucrative—was able to afford its own church.

²¹Herity 28.

²²Price 76.

²³Harbison 109.