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xvi N. Con.—North Connaught. nom.—nominative. P.—Parish. O'Br.—O'Brien's Irish-English Dictionary. O'Con.—John O'Connell (Irish Poet). O'D.—Geoffrey O'Donoghue. ''Oidhe Ch. U.''—Oidhe Chlainne Uisneach. Om.—Omeath. O'N.—O'Naughton's MS. Irish-English Dictionary (T.C.D.). O'R.—O'Reilly's Irish-English Dictionary (recent edition). O'Ra.—Egan O'Rahilly. p. a.—participial adjective. perh.—perhaps. pl.—plural. P. O'C.—Peter O'Connell's MS. Irish-English Dictionary (T.C.D.). P. O'Dor.—Peter O'Dornin, an eighteenth century poet. pr., prn.—pronoun. prep.—preposition. pron.—pronounced. pronom.—pronominal. Raft.—Raftery. s.—singular. ''Sc. G.''—Scotch Gaelic. somet.—sometimes ''sp. l.''—spoken language. Sup.—Supplement to O'Reilly's Dictionary. ''Tadg. O'Con. Bil, Gram.''—Tadhg O'Connellan's Bilingual Grammar. T. G.—Tadhg Gaedleach O'Sullivan. T. S.—Keating's "Three Shafts of Death." ''Tor. D. agus G.''—Toraidheacht Dhiarmada, agus Ghrainne. U.—Ulster. Wat.—Waterford. W. M.—West Munster. Y. B. L.—Yellow Book of Lecan. v. tr.—verb transitive.

After nouns, the genitive singular and nominative plural are given; after verbs (which are given in the 1st person singular, indicative mood), the verbal is given; after adjectives, the dative singular feminine, which is also in general the same as the comparative and superlative, is given; many adjectives, from the nature of the case, are not used in the comparative or superlative, but are nevertheless declined in the positive degree; after compound nouns, in most cases, the genitive and plural are not given when they are identical with those of the terminal simple nouns.

The general rule followed in setting down the inflectional termination after the words is to repeat the last letter of the invariable portion of the word, thus, signifies that the genitive case of is , and its nominative plural is ; where, however, the inflexional termination is purely an addition to the noun, the last letter is generally not repeated, thus  signifies that  is the genitive case of.