41/48 22, for mention of the Celtic roads in Gaul. _Carbad_ or chariots are mentioned in the oldest Celtic tales and romances, and it is distinctly stated in the life of St.Patrick preserved in the Book of Armagh, that the pagan Irish had chariots. Different kinds of roads are expressly mentioned, and also the duty of road-mending, and those upon whom this duty devolved. See Introduction to the Book of Rights, p. 56. |