on the Easter Controversy, at Conference of Whitby, 527-529;
defeated at Whitby, by Wilfrid, 529;
leaves Northumbria and retires to island of Innisboffin, 529;
founds monasteries of Innisboffin and Mayo, 530;
interesting memorials of, in Innisboffin, 531, 532;
death of, 533.

Columba of Terryglass, Saint, Fintan of Clonenagh placed under care of, 400;
founds a temporary establishment at Clonenagh, 401;
descent and early youth of, 513, 514;
at Clonard, 514;
visits to Home and England, 514;
founds three churches, 514;
established at Iniscaltra, 514, 515;
again visits Clonard, 515;
death of, 515;
his body buried first at Iniscaltra afterwards transferred to Terryglass, 516.

Columba, Saint, a typical Celt, 291;
birth and descent of, 292;
his early life and training, 293;
at Moville, 294;
places himself under the instruction of a Bard, 291, 295;
at Clonard, 295;
at Glasnevin, 296;
returns to his native territory, 297;
founds school of Derry, 298, 299;
personal description of, 300;
founds school of Durrow, 301;
interesting incidents connected with, 302;
writes Book of Durrow, 304;
School of Kells, founded by, 307;
writing of Book of Kells attributed to, 309;
and battle of Cuil-Dreimhne, 310;
ordered to leave Ireland for the sin of urging his kinsmen to fight this battle, 311;
sets sail for Alba, 312;
island of Iona (Hy) granted to, 316;
protects the Bards, 320-323;
subsequent history of, 323;
death of, 324-326;
writings of, 326-328;
poems and prophecies attributed, to, 329;
Lives of, 330, 331.

Columbanus, Saint, date of his birth, 371;
early life of, 371, 372;
leaves his home, and goes to Monastery of Cluaninis, 372;
admitted to Bangor, 372;
with some companions, go first to England, from thence to Gaul, 372;
preaches the Gospel through the towns and villages of Gaul, 373;
and his companions get established at Annegray, 373;
founds a monastery at Luxeuil, 374;
and his monks have to bear a sore trial, 374, 375;
driven from Luxeuil, 376;
and his monks establish themselves at Bregentz, 376;
leaves Bregentz, crosses the Alps, and founds monastery of Bobbio, 377;
death of, 378;
writings of, 378-380.

Columbian schools, sacred learning in, 318, 319.

Comgall, Saint, at Glasnevin, 297;
birth and parentage of, 365;
his early youth, 365;
becomes a disciple of St. Fintan, 366-402;
pays a visit to Clonmacnoise and receives the priesthood there, 367;
founds school of Bangor, 367;
visited there by St. Columba and some of his followers, 368;
performs a miracle, 368;
pays a return visit to Columba, 369;
death of, 310.

Commission of Nine, members of, 54;
real authors of Senchus Mor, 55.

Conall Derg, king, family of, 164.

Conall, king, grants the inland of Iona to St. Columba, 316;
descent of, 317.

Conall, Saint, bishop of Ross, 492.

Conchessa, mother of St. Patrick, 44.

Conchobhar (Connor), deprives poets of exclusive privileges, 7.

Conference, Paris, production of, 388.

Confession of St. Patrick, evidence in favour of its authenticity, 67, 68;
the Saint’s motive in writing, 69;
reference to Saint’s personal history and Apostolic labours in, 70-72;
shows he was a native of Britain, 72.

Cong, members of O’Duffy family buried at, 539;
remains of the abbey of, 558, 559;
Rory O’Connor retires to monastery of, to die, 559, 560.

Conla Cainbrethach, distinguished judge, mentioned in introduction to Senchus Mor, 11.

Conlath, Saint, selected by St. Brigid to govern her churches and monasteries, 131;
an artificer in metal work, 137.

Conmach, Primate of Armagh, gets the clergy exempted from military service, 410.

Conn the Hundred Fighter, descendants of, 16.

Conn-na-m-Bocht, holy man, descendants of, 280.

Convention of Drumceat, the three questions considered at, 321, 322.

Coolbanagher, church of, St. Ængus beholds a vision of angels at, 407.

Corban gives Aran up to St. Enda, 177.

Corc, king, member of Commission of Nine, 54.

Corca Laighde, territory of, 490;
race of, 490.

Cormac, son of Diarmaid, king of Hy-Kinsellagh, and St. Fintan of Clonenagh, 402, 403.

Cormac, king of Hy-Bairrche, retires to Bangor before his death, 370.

Cormac, bishop and abbot of Glendalough, death of recorded, 425.

Coroticus king, difference of opinion regarding, 73;
the Book of Armagh regarding, 75.

Cosgrach, professor of Kildare, death of, 138.

Council of Nice, second, on image worship, 385;
censured at Synod of Frankfort, 386;
at Paris Conference, 388.

Crimthan, king, 82.

Cronan, of Roscrea, Saint, founds monastery of Roscrea, 523;
a specimen of the miracles given in his Life, 523;
the Book of Dimma, 523, 524.

Cross of Tuam, described, 554, 555, 556.

Cross of Cong, history and description of, 560, 561.

Crozier of Lismore, description of, 472, 473.

Cuanna, Saint, descent of, 466;
goes to the school of Rahan, 466;
founds monastery of Killcooney, 466;
made abbot of Lismore, 466;
death of, 467.

Cuil-Dreimhne, battle of, 250, 310, 311;
story of, regarded by some as the invention of a later age, 311;
site of, 312.

Cuilmen, book, 29.

Cuimine the Fair, abbot, Life of Columba attributed to, 330;
the Paschal Epistle attributed to, 334.

Cummian (the Tall), Saint, birth of, 229;
in St. Finbarr’s school, 230;
his appointment to Clonfert, 230, 231;
characteristic story told of, 231;
his relations with King Domhnall, 232;
the part he played in the Paschal Controversy, 233;
and the Synod of Magh Lene, 236, 237;
analysis of his Paschal Epistle, 237-240;
probably the author of Liber de Mensura Poenitentiarum, 240, 241;
death of, 241.

Cummian Finn, Saint, writings of, 241.


Daghda, king and poet, 8.

Dagobert, king of Austrasia, a pupil in college of Slane, 590.

Daire, king, member of the Commission of Nine, 54;
remarks on, 55;
grants a site for Cathedral of Armagh to St. Patrick, 111, 112.

Dairinis, Island of, St. Finnian visits, 195-198.

Dallan Forgaill, chief bard, reorganises and reforms the Bardic Order, 323;
compositions of, 616.

Danes, the, plunder Armagh, 120;
burn and pillage Louth, 149;
plunder Beg-Erin, 158;
plunder Clonard, 207;
Clonmacnoise, 274, 275;
Glendalough, 429;
Ross, 493;
Mungret, 510;
Iniscaltra, 521.

Darerca, mother of St. Ciaran, 259.

Darinia, sister of St. Enda, 169.

Dathi, king, mentioned, 28.

David, Saint, birth and parentage of, 196;
founds a great college, 196;
appointed archbishop, 196, 197.

Dearbhforgaill, dies in pilgrimage at Glendalough, 430.

Death of St. Columba, 324-326.

Declan, Saint, Life of, 153;
evidence against its authenticity, 155.

De Gray, John, bishop of Norwich, 269.

De Lacy, Walter, refounds monastery of Clonard, 208.

De Mensura Orbis Terrarum, treatise, account of its contents, 281, 282, 284-290.

Demetrias, Epistle of Pelagius to, 41.

De Rochford, Simon, transfers See of Meath to Trim, 208.

Derry, See of, established, 357.

Dervorgilla, wife of Tiernan O’Rorke, builds a church at Clonmacnoise, 553.

Dialogue of the two Sages, circumstances which led to, 9.

Diarmaid, king of Meath, makes grants to Clonmacnoise, 271.

Diarmaid, bishop of Iniscaltra, 521.

Dicuil the Geographer, his treatise De Mensura Orbis Terrarum, 281;
personal history of, 282;
where and by whom he was educated, 282-284;
sources from which he derived the information contained in his treatise, De Mensura Orbis Terrarum, 284;
his reference to the Irish pilgrimage to Jerusalem, 285, 286;
his reference to Iceland and the Faroë Islands, 286, 287;
his reference to the poet, Sedulius, 289, 290.

Discipline, of an Irish monastery, 97-102;
of lay colleges, 628-631.

Disert-Diarmada, monastery of, 605.

Doctor in Poetry, qualifications required in early times to become, 7.

Domhnall, king, St. Cummian’s relations with, 232;
death of, 233.

Donovan, chief of the Hy-Fidhgente, makes Mahoun a prisoner, 484.

Dorbene, abbot of Iona, 336.

Drogonus, archbishop, translates the relics of St. Cathaldus, 464.

Druids, learning of, 1;
religions tenets of, 1, 2;
the British, 2;
places of worship, 3;
Irish, 3;
worship of, 3;
functions of, 4;
acquaintance with letters, 4;
abodes of Irish, 5;
idolatrous practice of sun-worship, 5.

Drumcullen, monastery of, Saint Carthach at, 451.

Duach Galach, descent of, 226.

Dubhthach, chief poet and Brehon, member of Commission of Nine, 54.

Dubricius, bishop of Landaff, consecration of, 196;
his monastery at Llancarvan, 196.

Dunchadh, archdeacon of Mungret, death of, 511.

Dungal, theologian, astronomer, and poet, 381;
an Irishman, 382;
place or date of his birth not fixed, 382;
his letter to Charlemagne on the solar eclipses, 382-384;
opens a school at Pavia, 385;
writes a book in which he defends the Catholic doctrine regarding Iconoclasm, against the trifling of Bishop Claudius, 390, 391;
character of his writings, 391, 392;
death of, 392.

Dunlaing, king, massacres attendants of Cormac Mac Art, 18.

Dysertenos, Saint Ængus leads a penitential life at, 406.


Eamhnat, mother of St. Moling, 426.

Ecgfrid, king, slain, and his army routed, 340.

Egbert, Saint, of Northumbria, comes to Ireland, 590;
studies in Connaught, 591;
a vision appears to, 592;
sets sail for Iona, 592;
death of, 593.

Eithne, mother of St. Columbkille, descent of, 292.

Elegia, poem by Sedulius, description of, 37.

Elitheria, monastery of, founded, 535, 536.

Elphin, monastery at, 160, 161.

Embroideresses, of St. Patrick’s household, 66.

Enda of Aran, Saint, descent of, 164;
conversion of, 165;
gives proof of the sincerity of his conversion, 165, 166;
founds a monastery at Killeany, 166;
repairs to monastery of Rosnat, 165-168;
visits Rome, 168;
death of, 168;
founds his monastery on Aran, 177;
is visited by several of the contemporary saints, 177, 178;
leads a simple and austere life, 180, 181.

Eochaid, Tirmcharna, descent of, 226.

Eoghan, king, 111.

Epistle, to Coroticus, of St. Patrick, 73-75;
reference made by the Saint to his own personal history in, 74.

Erc, bishop, judge in St. Patrick’s household, 65;
baptizes St. Brendan of Clonfert, 210;
takes Brendan under his own charge, 211;
confers the order of priesthood on Brendan, 213;
death of, 213.

Ercnat, daughter of King Daire, gets enamoured of St. Benignus, 115.

Erigena, John Scotus, of Irish birth and education, 576;
the English and Scotch strive to make him their own, 577, 578;
in the palace of Charles the Bald, 578, 579;
witticisms of, 579;
publishes his Liber de Prædestinatione, 581;
alleged errors about the Real Presence, 583;
translates the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, 584;
the Pope complains of its publication without the Apostolic sanction, 585;
composes his work, De Divisione Naturae, 586;
this Book condemned, 587;
death of, 588.

Esker Brenain, church of, 199.

Etan, princess and poetess, 9.

Eu or Augum, monastery of, St. Laurence O’Toole in, 444;
his death in, 445.


Fachtna, Saint, birth and early training of, 490;
goes to school of Cork, 491;
founds monasteries of Molana and Ross, 491;
becomes entirely blind, 492;
death of, 492.

Family, monastic, members of, 152;
virtues and penances practised by, 99-101;
ordinary meal of, 101;
ordinary dress of, 102.

Fanchea, nun, converts her brother (St. Enda), 164, 165.

Faolain, father of St. Moling, 426.

Faughart, memorials of St. Brigid at, 128, 129;
Edward Bruce buried in churchyard of, 128.

Faustinus Arevalus, admits that the story of Sedulius (poet), he being a Spaniard, in fabulous, 31.

Feargus, prince, descendants of, 226.

Fedelmith, king, and St. Finan Cam, 498.

Feis of Tara, national parliament, in existence before time of Cormac Mac Art, 19;
object of, 20;
the meetings of, 20.

Felimy (Fedhlimidh), father of St. Columbkille, descent of, 292.

Felire of St. Aengus, described, 409, 410, 411;
Dr. Stokes on its authorship, 412.

Ferceirtne, royal poet, 9.

Ferdomhach, professor of Kildare, death of, 138.

Ferdomnach, scribe, transcribed Book of Armagh, 103.

Fergus, poet, member of Commission of Nine, 54.

Fiacc of Sletty, Saint, descent of, 81;
offers himself for the service of the Church, 83;
founds two churches, 83;
his life at Sletty, 84;
death of, 85;
writings of, 85, 86.

Finan Cam, Saint, birth and descent of, 497;
founds monastery of Kinnity, 497;
evidence which goes to show he was founder of Innisfallen, 497, 498;
miracles attributed to, 498, 499.

Finan the Leper, Saint, commonly regarded as founder of Innisfallen, 496;
evidence for and against this theory, 496, 497, 498;
monasteries mentioned in connection with, 497.

Finan, bishop of Lindisfarne, 527.

Finbarr, Saint, history of his birth, 476;
placed under care of a holy man, 477;
founds several churches, 477;
his retreat in Gougane Barra, 478, 479;
founds school of Cork, 480;
goes on a pilgrimage to Rome, 481;
death of, 482;
character of, 483;
writing of, 484;
tragical event which took place in connection with this writing, 484, 485.

Finchad, Saint, bishop of Ross, 492.

Findath, mother of St. Fintan of Clonenagh, 399.

Findlug, father of St. Brendan of Clonfert, 210.

Findmath, mother of St. Carthach, descent of, 447.

Finloch, father of St. Finnian, descent and family of, 194.

Finn Cummian, 241.

Finnachta, king of Ireland, and Adamnan, 337, 338;
remits Borumean tribute, 341, 428;
death of, 342.

Finnachta, abbot, 626, 627.

Finnian of Clonard, Saint, descent and birth of, 194;
visits the saints of Wales, 195;
their history, 196-198;
miracles performed in Wales by, 198;
returns to Ireland, 198;
founds two churches, 199;
founds school of Clonard, 199, 200;
lives an austere life, 200;
visited at Clonard by all the distinguished saints of Erin, 201;
the routine of daily life in school of, 202;
his power of expounding the Sacred Scriptures, 203;
death of, 204.

Finnian of Moville, Saint, boyhood and education of, 246;
goes to monastery of Rosnat (Candida Casa), 247;
goes to Rome, 248;
returns to Ireland, and brings with him copy of entire Bible, 249;
founds school of Moville, 249;
Psaltery, copy of, 250, 251;
Rule composed by, for his monks, 253, 254;
death of, 254;
was, it seems, a bishop, 255.

Fintan Corach, Saint, the immediate successor of St. Brendan in Clonfert, 224;
encourages the study and practice of sacred psalmody, 225;
death of, 225.

Fintan, Munster prince, travels as a soldier of fortune into North Connaught, 226;
secretly marries the daughter of king of Connaught, 227.

Fintan Maeldubh, raised to the abbacy of Clonenagh, 404.