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²Kelly, Tom, and Christy Owen. "The Ring of the Rath." Personal interview. 13 June, 1979.

³"Archaeological Finds during Excavation." Display card. The National Museum of Ireland, 14 July, 1998.

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⁵Orpen, Goodard H. "Rathgall, County Wicklow." The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth 1.2 (1911): 142-43.

⁶Kelly, Tom, and Christy Owen.

⁷Dorson, Richard M. Folklore and Fakelore: Essays toward a Discipline of Folk Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1976. 6

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⁹⁹Šmidchens, Guntis. "Folklorism Revisited." Journal of Folklore Research 36.1 (1999): 52+.
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¹⁰Hall, S. C., and S. C. Hall. Ireland, Its Scenery, Character, etc. London: How and Parsons, 1841. 224.

¹¹Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Irish Sketch Book. 1843. 43. Cited in Williams, W. H. A. Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-famine Ireland. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 2008. 79.

¹²Binns, Jonathan. The Miseries and Beauties of Ireland. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, and, 1837. 249. Cited in Williams, W. H. A. Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-famine Ireland. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 2008. 79.

¹³Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Irish Sketch Book of 1842. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. 43.