strange story concerning, 144, 145;
death of, 144.

Mochta, Saint, birth of, 146;
founds church of Kill-mor (Cella-magna), 146;
works a miracle, 147;
founds school of Louth, 147;
St. Patrick visits, 147;
Rule of, 148;
author of a work, 148, 149;
death of, 148.

Mochoroy, Saint, favourite disciple of St. Kevin, 421.

Mocumin, Saint, under care of St. Columba of Terryglass, 400.

Moel, Druid, converted to the faith of Christ, 51.

Moinenn, Saint, the intimate friend and associate of St. Brendan, 222;
appointed by St. Brendan to rule Clonfert, 222;
things concerning him which are doubtful, 223, 224.

Molana, monastery of, founded by St. Fachtna, 491.

Moling, Saint, descent of, 426;
spends some time in monastery of Glendalough, 426;
founds a monastery, 426;
had a love of useful labour, 427;
his austerities and virtues attract a great number of disciples, 427;
becomes bishop of Ferns, 427;
procures the remission of the cow-tribute, 428;
writings ascribed to, 428, 429;
death of, 429.

Molloy, chief of Desmond, has Mahoun assassinated, 484, 485.

Monastery, Irish, general view of, 91-94;
the buildings connected with, 94-97;
discipline of, 97-102;
spirit of hospitality in, 100, 101;
daily labour of, 102-106.

Monk, the true, 91, 92;
at first, 92.

Morals of St. Gregory the Great, a famous book in the schools of Ireland, 117.

Morann, learned judge, mentioned in Senchus Mor, 11.

Morini, Bartholomew and Bonaventure, wrote Life of St. Cathaldus, 457, 458;
quoted, 459, 460.

Mor Rigan, queen and poetess, 8.

Moville, situation of, 245;
in ancient times famous for its great religious establishments, 245.

Mucknoi, bishop, receives “seven Books of the Law” from St. Patrick, 63.

Muirgheas, abbot of Mungret, death of, 511.

Munchin, Saint, descent of, 509;
builds himself a cell and oratory—Cill-Munchin, 509.

Murtough, father of St. Laurence O’Toole, 433.


Naomh Gilla-na, bishop of Glendalough, 431.

Nechan, Libeus, Saint, spends some time in Aran, 179.

Nectan, king, expels the Columbian monks from his dominions, 345.

Neidhe, poet, 9.

Nessan, abbot of Cork, 485.

Nessan of Mungret, ordained deacon by St. Patrick, 507;
his visit to St. Ailbe of Emly, 507, 508;
death of, 508.

Ninian, Saint, said to have visited St. Mochae at Noendrum, 143, 246;
founds school of Candida Casa (Rosnat), 247;
this school under, 166-168.

Noendrum (Mahee island), situation of, 141.


O’Bolcan, Nuada, abbot of Tuam, death of, 545.

O’Brien, Murtough, retires to monastery of Lismore, 470;
plunders Mungret, 511;
gives over Cashel for religious purposes, 608.

O’Brolchain Maelisa, Saint, retires to a monastic school, 353;
a teacher and scholar, 353;
said to have founded an oratory at Lismore, 354;
death of, 354.

O’Brolchain, Aedh, professor, death of, 354.

O’Brolchain, Maelbrighde, bishop of Kildare, death of, 354.

O’Brolchain, Maelcolaim, bishop of Kildare, death of, 354.

O’Brolchain, Flaithbhertach, comarb of Columcille, procures money and renovates the monastery of Derry, 355, 356;
elevated to the episcopal order—See of Derry established, 357;
his death as recorded by the Four Masters, 357.

O’Brolchain, Domhnall, appointed to the abbacy of Iona, 358;
erects a great church there, 358.

O’Brolchain, Flann, abbot of Iona, 358.

O’Cearbhail, Maelsuthain, chief, the intimate friend and counsellor of Brian Boru, 501;
a renowned professor, 502;
and the three students, 502, 503;
regarded as the author or compiler of Annals of Innisfallen, 503.

O’Cleirigh, Eoghan, bishop of Connaught, death of, 545.

O’Connor, Rory, king, grants tithes to Armagh, 121;
is stimulated to resist the attack of the Normans on Dublin, by St. Laurence O’Toole, 441;
formally gives up his claims to the kingdom of Ireland, 442;
St. Laurence O’Toole travels to England and France in the interest of, 443;
retires to abbey of Cong to die, 559, 560.

O’Connor, Cathal, founds a chapel at Clonmacnoise, 268.

O’Connor, Turlough, fleet of, despoils Desmond, 495;
Celtic Art during reign of, 547-565;
buildings erected during reign of, 557-559;
rebuilds Cathedral of Tuam, 557.

O’Curry, cited, 1, 3, 4, et seq.

O’Donnell, Cathbarr, got casket made which holds copy of St. Finnian’s Psaltery, 252;
death of, 252.

O’Donnell, Manus, wrote a life of St. Columba, 330.

O’Drugan, professor in School of Armagh, death of, 121.

O’Duffys, the, 547, 550.

O’Duffy, Cele, Bishop of Mayo, 539.

O’Duffy, Flanagan Ruadh, professor, death of, 548.

O’Duffy, Domhnall, bishop of Elphin death of, 561.

O’Duffy, Muireadhach, high bishop of Connaught, death of, 560.

O’Duffy, Catholicus, high-bishop of Connaught, death of, 549, 555.

Oena, Saint, abbot of Clonmacnoise, 270.

Oengoba, father of St. Ængus, descent of, 405.

O’Flaherty, cited, 19, 22, 23, 305, et seq.

O’Flinn, Eochaid, historic poet, poems of, 619.

Ogma, poet, invention of Ogham Alphabet attributed to, 13.

O’Gorman, Florence, professor in Armagh, death of, 121.

O’Hagan, Imar, archbishop, rebuilds church of Armagh, 121.

O’Hanlon, Canon:

—— Lives of the Irish Saints, quoted, 38.

—— Life of St. Brigid, quoted, 129.

O’Hartigan, Cinaeth, historic poet, 619.

O’Hessian, Hugh, high-bishop of Connaught, 549, 555.

O’Hoisin, Aedh, archbishop of Tuam, 545.

O’Huihair, Patrick, a poet of Innisfallen, 504.

Oisin (Ossian), Erin’s greatest poet, 10;
story of his relations with St. Patrick, 57.

O’Kelly, Diarmaid, plunders monastery of Clonfert, 243.

O’Kelly, Conor, founds a sepulchral chapel at Clonmacnoise, 268.

O’Leathain, Colman, Saint, a pupil, abbot, and bishop of Lismore, 467.

Ollamh Fodhla, king, reigns and dies at Tara, 19.

O’Lochain, Cuan, poet, quoted, 23;
descent of, 623;
slain, 624;
poems written by, 624.

Olum Ollioll, learned poet, poems written by, 10.

O’Malone (O’Maeileoin), Gillachrist, work attributed to, 279.

O’Manchan, Brehon, death of, recorded, 430.

O’Melaghlin, Donogh, prince of Meath, sentence of excommunication pronounced upon, 361.

O’Moore Moran, lector of Armagh, death of, at Mungret, 511.

O’Mordha Peter, bishop of Clonfert, building of present church of Clonfert (now in Protestant hands), attributed to, 244.

O’Muidhin, Giolla Aedha, abbot and bishop of Cork, 486, 487.

Ona, harper, 9.

Organization, Church, established by St. Patrick, 55, 56.

O’Rorke, Tiernan, plunders Clonard, 207.

O’Rorke, Art, plunders monastery of Clonfert, 243.

O’Rorke, Aedh, plunders monastery of Clonfert, 243.

O’Rorke, Fergal, builds a tower at Clonmacnoise, 268, 269.

Oswald, king of Northumbria, convenes a Synod at Whitby to establish a uniform Easter usage, 527-529.

Ottilo, Duke of Bavaria, St. Virgilius at court of, 567.

O’Toole, Laurence (Lorcan), Saint, authentic life of, 432;
descent of, 433;
given as a hostage to Dermott M‘Murrough, 433;
released, 434;
placed under the protection of bishop of Glendalough, 434;
a diligent scholar, 435;
made abbot of Glendalough, 436;
discharges the duties with complete success, 436;
consecrated archbishop of Dublin, 436;
his election inaugurates a new era, 437;
reforms the people and clergy of the city of Dublin, 437;
lives a life of rigorous austerity, 438;
spends Lent in the most secluded spots, 439;
stimulates Rory O’Connor and other native princes to unite against the Normans, 441;
his loyalty to Rory O’Connor, 442, 443, 444;
attends a General Council in Rome, and secures many privileges for the Irish Church, 443;
made Apostolic Legate, 443;
in monastery of Eu, 444;
death of, 445;
his remains enclosed in a crystal case, 445;
canonized, 446.


Paparo, Cardinal John, Papal Legate, constitutes four archbishops in Ireland for the first time, 361.

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

Paschal Controversy, diversity of practice existing, regarding the celebration of the Pasch, 233;
the Alexandrian usage—the correct one, 234;
the Irish usage, 234, 235;
the Irish clergy are admonished by the Pope for adhering to their old usage, 235;
the Synod of Magh Lene convened to discuss the subject, 236;
the Epistle of St. Cummian the Tall, regarding the celebration of the Pasch, 237-240.

Paschal Epistle of St. Cummian the Tall to the abbot of Hy, analysis of, 237-240.

Patrick, Saint, education of, 43-50;
early years of, 44;
accompanies Germanus to Britain, 48;
visits the island of Lerins, 49;
sets out for the task of converting the Irish to Christianity, 50;
lights the Paschal fire, 50;
miraculous destruction of the chief Druids of Erin at the prayer of, 51;
reforms the Brehon Laws, 52;
convokes the men of Erin to a conference at Tara, 53;
selects a Commission of Nine to purify the pagan code of laws, 55;
establishes a Church organization, 55;
establishes a friendly alliance with Arch-Poet of Erin, 56;
commences to train up a native ministry, 58;
accompanied by bishops and priests on his Irish mission, 59;
ecclesiastical legislation of, 61, 62;
organizes a peripatetic school, 62, 63;
household of, 65;
Confession of, 67-73;
motive of in writing this Confession, 69;
descent of, 70;
escapes from captivity, 71;
epistle to Coroticus, 73-75;
the Lorica of, 75-77;
specimen of hymn, translated, 76;
Sechnall’s hymn of, 77-81;
is granted a site, and founds school of Armagh, 111, 112;
meeting with St. Benignus, 114;
baptizes the two sisters of Fochlut wood, 126;
kings’ daughters come on a pilgrimage to, 126, 127.

Pelagius, of British birth, 40;
gives expression to his heretical views, 40, 41;
his meeting with Caelestius, 41.

Petroc, Saint, St. Kevin placed under care of, 415.

Pilgrimage, Irish, to Jerusalem, testimony of Dicuil the Geographer regarding, 285, 286.

Poet, historic, chief duty of, 8.

Preface to St. Jerome’s Commentaries on Jeremias, passage in, misunderstood by some Irish scholars, 39.

Prosper of Aquitaine, cited, 40.

Prudentius, on the doctrine of Predestination, 581, 582.

Psalter of Caiseal, 612-614.

Psaltery, Gallic, brought from Rome by St. Finnian of Moville, 248, 249;
copy of, furtively made by St. Columba, 250, 310;
eventful history of this copy, 250-253;
now in Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, 253;
inscription on casket which encloses it, 252, 349;
workmanship of casket, 253;
different custodians of, 252;
the casket opened in 1814, 252, 253.


Raban Maur, bishop, and the monk Gotteschalk, 580.

Rachau, See of, as mentioned in Life of St. Carthach, not determined, 462.

Rahan, monastery of, founded by St. Carthach, 449;
St. Carthach expelled from, 450.

Richards, Colonel Solomon, cited, 120.

Richenau, monastery of, 335.

“River of Trajan,” testimony regarding existence of, 285.

Riverstown (Biorra), monastery of, founded by St. Brendan the Elder, 522.

Reeves, bishop, Adamnan’s Life of Columba, quoted, 288, 291, 292.

Roscrea, monastery of, St. Carthach in, 451;
founded by St. Cronan 523.

Rosnat (Candida Casa), monastery of, place and time of its foundation, 166-168, 246, 247;
St. Enda goes to study at, 168;
is visited by several other saints, 167;
St. Finnian of Moville in, 247.

Rossa, member of Commission of Nine, 54.

Ruadhan of Lorrha, curses king of Tara and his palace, 218.

Rufinus of Aquileia (Grunnius), 39.

Rule of St. Carthach, 455-457.


Saigher, St. Carthach, at monastery of, 451.

Saints, first order of, 107;
second order of, 107, 108;
third order of, 108.

Saint Boniface, on baptism, 568;
brings four charges against St. Virgilius, 569-571.

Saltair of Tara, work, attributed to Cormac Mac Art, 23;
contents of, 23.

Sancti Venite, hymn, 80, 81.

Sayings of St. Patrick, 87;
his saying, “Deo gratias,” 112.

Schools, Christian, sketch of, 188-193;
the first, 188;
developed and enlarged in the fifth century, 190;
in the West, 190, 191;
St. Patrick did not himself establish, 192, 193.

Schools, Organization of the Gaedhlic Professional, the learned professions, 597-599;
Degrees in Poetry, in Law, in History, 600, 601.

School of Aran, St. Enda founds, 177;
saints who visited, 177-179.

School of Armagh, observations on, 110, 111;
founded by St. Patrick, 112;
other ecclesiastical buildings at Armagh, 113;
a great theological seminary, 117;
teachers of, 118-120;
burned and plundered, 120, 121;
rebuilt, 121;
the Book of Armagh, 122-124.

School of Bangor, St. Comgall of, 364-370;
founded, 367;
Saint Columba and his followers visit, 368;
the holiness and miracles of St. Comgall attract crowds to, 369;
kings give up their crowns and come to, 369, 370;
Saint Columbanus the great glory of, 370-381;
Dungal, after Columbanus, the greatest glory of, 381-393;
St. Malachy, abbot of, 393-397.

School of Clonard, founded by St. Finnian, 199, 200;
visited by all the distinguished saints of Erin, 201;
Oral Instruction in, 202;
the study of Sacred Scripture in, 202, 203;
relics of antiquity at Clonard, 205;
plundered by the Irish and Danes, 207;
refounded, 208;
St. Columba at, 295.

School of Clonenagh, St. Comgall in, 366, 402;
situation of, 398, 399;
St. Fintan of, 399-404;
founded by St. Fintan, 401;
rigorous discipline and fasting in, 366, 401, 402;
St. Ængus the most remarkable scholar of, 404-413.

School of Clonfert, founded by St. Brendan, 220, 221;
St. Moinenn and, 222-224;
St. Fintan and, 224, 225;
St. Cummian and, 228-231;
subsequent history of, 242 243;
old cathedral of, 243, 244.

School of Clonmacnoise, situation of, 258;
founded by St. Ciaran, 262;
ruined churches of, 266-269;
inscribed tombstones at, 269, 270;
grants made to, 271;
scholars of, 272-274;
the Danes and Irish plunder, 274, 275;
annalists of, 276-281;
Dicuil the Geographer likely trained at, 281;
Celtic Art at, 550-565.

School of Cork, situation of, 475, 476;
St. Finbarr of, 476-484;
founded by St. Finbarr, 480;
scholars of, 480;
exact site of, 480;
crowds of holy men come to, 483;
during the ninth century, 485, 486;
refounded by Cormac Mac Carthy, 486;
Giolla Aedh O’Muidhin, abbot and bishop of, 486, 487;
St. Colman of, 487-489.

School of Derry, St. Columcille founds, 298;
Columcille’s original church, 298;
Columcille and twelve monks set sail from, 312;
famous scholars of, 352-364.

School of Durrow, situation of, 301;
founded by St. Columcille, 301;
interesting incidents having reference to, 302;
Cormac Ua Leathain, in charge of, 303;
copy of the Gospels (Book of Durrow), written at, 304, 305;
no trace at present of any of the ancient buildings of, 305;
desolated by Hugh de Lacy, 306.

School of Emly, founded, 131.

School of Glendalough, St. Kevin of, 414-422;
founded by St. Kevin, 420;
existing ruins in Glendalough, 422-425;
St. Moling of, 425-431;
the Danes ravage, 429;
the native Irish ravage, 430;
noble ladies go on a pilgrimage to, 430;
St. Laurence O’Toole, 432-446.

School of Iniscaltra, situation of, 512, 513;
St. Columba of Terryglass established at, 514;
St. Caimin of, 517, 518;