Fintan of Clonenagh, Saint, St. Comgall becomes a disciple of, 366, 402;
birth and descent of, 399, 400;
placed under care of St. Columba of Terryglass, 400;
with other saints found a temporary establishment at Clonenagh, 401;
founds a permanent establishment there, 401;
Rule of, 401;
miracles of, 402, 403;
death of, 404.

Firaull, father of St. Carthach, descent of, 447.

Fire, “perpetual,” of Kildare, 100, 101.

Flaithbeartach, abbot of Inniscathy, and Cormac MacCullinan, 610, 611.

Flann, mother of St. Cummian, sketch of her history, 229;
dies a holy nun, 229.

Flann, king, builds a church at Clonmacnoise, 266.

Flann of Monasterboice, prose chronicler, 276.

Flann Failbhe, kindly receives St. Carthach, 452;
and St. Finan Cam, 499.

Flann Sionna, king of Ireland defeated at battle of Magh Lena, 609, 610.

Fortchern, Saint, descent and conversion of, 194;
said to have founded a school, 195;
St. Finnian placed under care of, 195.

Fortunatus, poet, cited, 35.

Fothadh, poet and adviser of King Aedh, decides that the clergy should be exempted from military service, 410.

Fursey, Saint, descent of, 226;
history of his birth, 226, 227;
baptized and trained by Saint Brendan of Clonfert, 227;
founds a monastery, 227.


Gabhren, father of St. Fintan of Clonenagh, 399.

Gelasius, Pope, approves of writings of Sedulius, 34, 35.

—— Primate of Armagh, 121;
what is known of his family or birthplace, 358, 359;
becomes abbot of Derry, 359;
raised to Primacy of Armagh, 359;
his reign remarkable for two things, 359;
visits Munster and Connaught, 360;
convenes and presides over several Synods, 360-362;
consecrates St. Laurence O’Toole to be archbishop of Dublin, 362, 436;
presides over Synod of Clane, 362, 437;
death of, 363.

Gemman, bard, instructs Saint Columbkille, 294;
striking incident connected with, 295.

Gennadius, 31;
cited, 41.

Gerald, of Mayo, Saint, placed under St. Colman’s care, 534;
and his brothers come to Ireland, 534, 535;
founds a monastery, 535;
attends a meeting at Tara, 536, 537;
paid a visit by Saint Adamnan, 537;
date of his death, 537.

Germanus, Saint, becomes bishop of Auxerre, 47;
leads a life of austerity, 47;
becomes the tutor of St. Patrick, 47;
builds a monastery, 48;
is accompanied to Britain by St. Patrick, 48;
sends Saint Patrick to Rome, 49.

Gildas, Saint, teaches in School of Armagh, 118;
his work, 119;
his meeting with St. Finnian, 195.

Giraldus, archbishop, causes the relics of St. Cathaldus to be enclosed in a silver shrine, 464.

Glendalough, topography of, 417, 418;
existing ruins at, 422-425;
the Danes at, 430.

Gobban Saer, architect or Ollamh-builder, 551, 552.

Godfrey, king of Danes, plunders country round Kells, 348.

Gontran, king of Burgundy, receives St. Columbanus with a warm welcome, 373.

Gotteschalk, monk, his doctrine on Predestination condemned, 580, 581.

Gougane Barra, lake, described, 478, 479;
ruins on island in, 479;
Father Denis O’Mahony takes up his abode in this lonely retreat, 479.

Graine, wife of Finn Mac Cumhaill, Rath of, at Tara, 22.

Guaire, king of Connaught, 230;
characteristic story told of, 231, 518;
defeated in battle at Carn Fearadhaigh, 231;
at Carn Conaile, 271;
death of, 271.

Guigneus, Saint, spends some time in Aran, 179.


Hare Island (Inis Ainghin), Saint Ciaran founds an oratory on, 261.

Henry de Loundres, puts out the fire of St. Brigid at Kildare, 138.

Henry II., St. Laurence O’Toole submits to, 441, 442;
Rory O’Connor formally and finally gives up all claim of Ireland to, 442;
grants the dying request of St. Laurence O’Toole, 444.

Hincmar, bishop, convenes a Synod at Quiercy, where doctrine of Gotteschalk, regarding Predestination, is condemned, 580, 581;
attacked by French theologians, 581;
convenes another Synod, and formulates his own doctrine on Grace and Predestination, 582;
this doctrine sanctioned, 583.

History of Sligo, quoted, 1.

Honoratus, Saint, retires to island of Lerins, and subsequently founds a school there; becomes third and last teacher of Saint Patrick, 50;
made bishop of Arles, 50;
the disciple of John Cassian, 191;
death of, 191.

Honorius III., enrols St. Laurence O’Toole as canonized Saint, 446.

“Honours,” St. Patrick entitled to four, in Irish Church, according to Book of Armagh, 77.

Household of St. Patrick, members of, 65.

Hy-Briuin, race, descent of, 226.

Hymn, St. Sechnall’s, circumstances to which it owed its origin, 77-79.

Hymn, “Sancti Venite,” 80, 81.


Ibar, Saint, a pre-Patrician bishop, 156;
his early training, 156;
builds his oratory on island of Beg-Erin, 156;
is visited in his island retreat by crowds of disciples, 157;
and his nephew, St. Abban, visit Rome, 157;
death of, 157.

Ildelfonsus, cited, 35.

Illumination, art of, in monastic schools of Kildare, 139.

Imar, king of Danes of Limerick, defeated by Brian Boru, 494.

Inchiquin, island, monastery in, 219.

Inisboffin, monastery of, founded, 530;
situation of, 531;
memorials of St. Colman in, 531, 532;
disagreement between the Irish and English monks of, 533.

Iniscaltra, island, situation of, 512, 513;
ruined monuments still remaining at, 519, 520.

Inis-da-druim (Coney Island), St. Brendan founds a monastery on, 216.

Inisgloria (Inis-gluair), island, St. Brendan founds an oratory in, 219;
at present, 220.

Innisfallen, island, description of, 505.

Instruction, course of, pursued by Druids, Bards and Brehons, 12.

Instruction, oral, communicated by St. Patrick to his disciples, 62, 63.

Iona (Hy), island, description of, 315, 316;
no trace of the original buildings of Columba at present in, 317;
churches of a later date in, 317, 318;
becomes a celebrated place of pilgrimage, 346;
pillaged and plundered, 346.

Iserninus, bishop, accompanies St. Patrick to Ireland, 59, 80;
founds a church, 60;
present at first Synod held in Ireland, 60.

Isidore of Seville, scholar, cited, 35.

Ita, Saint, the “Brigid of Munster,” 127;
founds her convent, 211;
St. Brendan placed under fosterage of, 211.


Jarlath, Saint, founds college of Cluainfois, 160, 542;
descent of, 541, 542;
builds a church at Tuam da ghuallan, 544;
date of his death 544;
relics of, 545.

John of Tritenheim, Benedictine monk, cited, 30.

Judges, ecclesiastical, taught their duties by St. Patrick, 61.

Justus of Fuerty, deacon, St. Patrick gives his own book of ritual to, 63;
baptizes St. Ciaran, 259.


Kathleen, genuine story of St. Kevin and, 416.

Keating, historian, cited, 20-24.

Keller, Dr., recovers most authentic copy of Adamnan’s Life of St. Columba, 334, 335.

Kells, memorials of St. Columba at, 308, 309.

Kevin (Coemghen), Saint, descent of, 414;
birth of, 415;
placed under care of St. Petroc, 415;
transferred to the guidance of his uncle, St. Eugenius, 416;
flies to the recesses of Glendalough, 416;
reasons which induced him to fly from his native district, 416;
ordained priest, 417;
his bed in Glendalough, 418;
life at Glendalough, 418, 419;
leaves his cave in Lugduff, 419;
founds monastery of Glendalough, 420;
meets Saints Columba, Comgall and Canice on hill of Usney in Westmeath, 421;
death of, 421.

Kilbannon, monastery of, established by St. Benignus, 159, 542.

Kilcommin, old ruin at, 231.

Kilcooney, monastery of, founded, 466.

Kildare, church of, description of, 133;
ancient buildings of, 138.

Killeany, monastery of, founded, 177;
existing remains in townland of, 181, 182.

Killossy, church of, 60;
etymology of the word, 60.

Kil-mac-nenain (Kilmacrenan), St. Columba spends the years of his youth at, 293.

Kilmore, church of, 146.

Kilnamanagh, monastery of St. Kevin in, 416.

Kings, taught their duties by St. Patrick, 61, 62.

Kinnity, monastery of, founded by St. Finan Cam, 498.


Labour, daily, in monastery, 102;
religious exercises, 103;
study, 103, 104;
manual, 104.

Laeghaire, king, and his Druids overcome by St. Patrick, 50, 51;
member of Commission of Nine, 54.

Laisren, abbot of Iona, 333.

Laurence, bishop of Canterbury, Millitus of London, and Justus of Rochester admonish the Irish on their errors in reference to Easter, 235.

Leabhar Breac, quoted, 135.

Leabhar-na-h-Uidhre, work, history and contents of, 280, 281.

Learning, in Ireland, in the time of St. Patrick, 42, 43.

Legislation, ecclesiastical, exercised by St. Patrick, 61, 62.

Liber de Mensura Poenitentiarum, work, 240;
contents of, 241.

Liberius, poem attributed to, 38.

Life Tripartite, of St. Patrick, description of, 83, 89;
date and probable author of, 89, 90.

Life of St. Ailbe of Emly, 151, 152;
its authenticity refuted, 155.

Life of St. Abban, quoted, 157.

Lives, six, of St. Brigid, reference to, 133-137.

Lives of St. Columba, 330, 331.

Llancarvan, school of, St. Finnian in, 196;
Irishmen in, 197.

Lochru, chief Druid, miraculously destroyed at prayer of St. Patrick, 50, 51.

Loman, Saint, converts St. Fortchern, 184;
descent of, 194.

Lomman, king, and St. Patrick, 506, 507.

Lonan Kerr, Saint, spends some time in Aran, 179.

Lorica, of St. Patrick, reason of its composition, 75, 76;
the Book of Armagh on, 77.

Lothaire, crowned emperor by the Pope, 385;
appoints a conference at Paris, 388;
his letter to the Pope, 389.

Lua, founder of Clonfert-Mulloe, at Bangor, 369.

Luchat the Bald, miraculously destroyed, 50, 51.

Lupait, sister of St. Patrick, 66.

Luxeuil, monastery of, established, 374;
St. Columbanus and his monks expelled from, 375, 376.


Macaille, bishop, gives the religious veil to St. Brigid, 129.

Mac Art, Cormac, character of, 16;
early training of, 17;
his narrow escape from Lughaidh MacCon, 17;
avenges wanton massacre of his attendants by Dunlaing, 18;
organizes a standing army, “Fenian Militia,” 18;
literary history of, 19-25;
convenes regular meetings of national parliament—Feis of Tara, 20;
erects a parliament house, 20, 21;
literary works of, 23-25;
death and burial of, 26, 27;
seems to transmit his talents to his daughters, 27, 28.

Mac Awley, Amergin, poet, author of the Dinnsenchus, 615.

Mac Cairthinn, bishop, champion in Saint Patrick’s household, 65;
St. Patrick founds a church for, 130.

Mac Carthy, Cormac, refounds monastery of Cork, 486;
becomes King of Cashel, 607;
builds a chapel at Cashel, 608;
made bishop, 608.

Mac Cerbhaill, Diarmaid, and his palace at Tara, cursed by Saints Ruadhan and Brendan, 218, 307;
slain, 218, 307;
and St. Ciaran’s prophecy, 262;
and copy of St. Finnian’s Psaltery, 250;
descent of, 306;
grants Kells to Saint Columbkille, 307;
and battle of Cuil-Dreimhne, 310, 311.

Mac Coise, Errard, chief poet, 624, 625.

Mac Con, Lughaidh, defeats King Art in battle, 17;
attempts to seize Cormac Mac Art, 17;
killed, 17.

Mac Concumba, learned scribe, 271.

Mac Cosse, lector of Ross, geographical poem of, 494, 495.

Mac Creiche, Saint, spends some time in Aran, 179.

Mac Crimthann, Felim, holds a conference with Niall at Clonfert, 242;
plunders Clonmacnoise, 275;
retires to a hermitage before his death, 275;
death of, 276.

Mac Cullinan, Cormac, his bequest to Glendalough, 429;
bequest to Mungret, 510;
birth of, 604;
called to the throne of Cashel, 605-608;
acquires his learning at monastery of Disert-Diarmada, 605, 606;
bishop of Cashel, 610;
stirring events of his reign, 609, 610;
greatest fault of, 610;
slain at battle of Ballaghmoon, 611;
writings of, 612-614.

Mac Cumhaill, Finn, poet and warrior, 10;
is general of Fenian Militia, 19.

Mac Duagh, Colman, founds two churches, 185.

Mac Firbis, Duald, scribe, 278, 279.

Mac Gorman, Finn, copies Book of Leinster, 140.

Mac Lenin Colman, Saint, induced St. Brendan to give up his worldly life, 212.

Mac Liag, Brian Boru’s secretary, work of, 620, 621.

Mac Lonan, Flann, historical poet, poems written by, 618.

Mac Murrough, Diarmaid, forcibly carries away the Abbess of Kildare, 138;
plunders and burns Clonard, 207;
death of, 208;
his treatment of young St. Laurence O’Toole 433;
attack on Dublin, 440.

Mac Nadfraich, Aenghus, king, baptized by St. Patrick, 54.

Mac Nessa, Conor, becomes a benefactor of the poets, 10.

Mac Nisse, abbot of Clonmacnoise, 270.

Mac O’Cluasaigh, Colman, Saint, the tutor of St. Cummian the Tall, 230;
his elegy on death of St. Cummian, 241;
death of, 242.

Mac Robartaigh (now M‘Groarty), family of, appointed custodians of casket which holds copy of St. Finnian’s Psaltery, 252;
members of, who met their death in defence of this sacred charge, 252;
Marianus Scotus, a member of, 349.

Mac Ua Lugair, Dubthach, exhibits judgments and laws of Erin to St. Patrick, 53;
his alliance with Patrick, 56, 57;
his conversion, 82;
their meeting some years later, 82, 83.

Mac Ui Clusaigh, Colman, Saint, nothing known of his personal history, 487;
a professor in Cork, 487;
hymn composed by, 488, 489.

Maelbrighde, successor of St. Patrick, 120.

Maelcaisil, abbot of Mungret, death of, 511.

Maelgenn, chief of the Druids, shows his magical power, 26.

Maelmuire, Primate of Armagh, had Brian Boru and his son interred at Armagh, 113.

Maelmuire, scribe, work compiled by, 280.

Maelmura, of Fathan, poems attributed to, 617, 618.

Maelruan, Saint, abbot of Tallaght, discovers the identity of St. Ængus, 408;
and St. Ængus jointly writes the Martyrology of Tallaght, 408, 409.

Maeve, rath of, at Tara, 22;
credited with being the author of a poem, 27.

Magh Enna, plain, an angel appears to St. Brendan on, 213;
performs a miracle there, 213.

Magh Mucruimhe (near Athenry), great battle fought at, 17.

Magh Slecht, St. Patrick overturns the idols of, 51.

Mahoun, brother of Brian Boru, assassinated, 484;
Brian avenges the murder of, 485.

Malachy, Saint, birth and parentage of, 393;
ordained a priest, 393;
at the College of Lismore, 393;
appointed to the abbacy of Bangor, 394;
builds an oratory once again at Bangor, 394;
made bishop of Connor, 394;
founds a monastery at Cashel, 395;
transferred to the Primatial See of Armagh, 395;
expels the usurpers of the See of Armagh, 396;
appointed Papal Legate for all Ireland, 396;
death of, at Clairvaux, 397.

Manchan, Saint, shrine of, history and description of, 564, 565.

Mangan, Clarence, poet, cited, 28, 29.

Martin, Saint, supposed relationship with St. Patrick, 44;
joins the imperial army, 45;
life of at Marmoutier, 45, 46;
is made bishop, 45;
the father of monasticism in Gaul, 93.

Mathona, sister of St. Benignus, receives the veil from Saint Patrick, 126;
founds a church and convent, 126.

Maur, Raban, bishop, 580.

Mayo, See of, annexed to Tuam, 540, 541.

Mercartor, Marius, cited, 40.

Michael the Stammerer, Greek Emperor, his letter to Lothaire, 388.

Missal, Bobbio, 380.

Mobhi Clarainech, Saint, of Glasnevin, 296.

Mochae, Saint, Patrick converts, baptizes and tonsures, 141;
descent of, 142;
founds monastery of Noendrum, 142;
St. Colman placed under the training of, 143;