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abbas (Irish ap), , on Colmán Elo, – abbot on Columba and the Picts, – controlled material assets of a church, on Columba and the Uí Néill, – derived high status from the rank of his on deaths of kings, – church, on Díarmait mac Cerbaill, extent of authority of some abbots, on early descendants of Níall, in Ireland wide sense of, on gens – relatively likely to be given a patronym in on Irish names, – the annals, – on kings of Tara, – title is associated with a church, – on magi, –, Abelenus,bishop of Geneva,kinsman of on prophecy and miracles of power, – Agrestius, presents different picture of Columba from Aberlemno churchyard,Pictish sculpture in, that in the Amra, – adoption, Achad Bó, see Aghaboe aduentus of a king, – acquired land, – Áed,bishop and subsequently anchorite of Adaloald,Lombard king, , Sleaty, –, – adbar ríg,‘material of a king’, date of Testament of, – Additamenta in the Book of Armagh, Áed Allán (Áed mac Fergaile),king of Tara, admonitio (tecosc), – , , Ado, aggressive policy towards Leinster, , Adomnán,ninth abbot of Iona, and the promulgation of the Law of Bede on, – Patrick, brings back the captives taken from Brega killed at the battle of Serethmag, to Northumbria, meets Cathal mac Finnguini at Terryglas, converted to the Roman Easter, , friend of Aldfrith,king of the victor at the battle of Áth Senaig, Northumbrians, , victories over Cenél Conaill and the Ulaid, friend of Ceolfrith,abbot of Wearmouth- Jarrow, , – Áed Bennán,early king of Munster from Law of (Cáin Adomnáin),‘the Law of the Éoganacht Locha Léin, Innocents’, see Cáin Adomnáin Áed Dub,bishop of Kildare, Adomnán,Life of St Columba,–, –, Áed Dub (Áed the Black),king of Dál nAraidi, –, killed Díarmait mac Cerbaill, , , and Wilfrid’s championship of the Rule of Áed Findlíath (Áed mac Néill),king of Tara, St Benedict, – audience of, – Áed mac Ainmirech,king of Cenél Conaill central aims of, , – and of Tara, , , , not propagandist for the Uí Néill, and the ‘conference of the kings’ at on Áed Sláne and Díarmait mac Cerbaill, Druimm Cete, –, – behind the foundation of Durrow,
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may have commissioned the Amra Choluim agriculture in Ireland,mixed, Chille, – Agrippinus,bishop of Como, , Áed mac Bricc,bishop and saint, Ahlfled,Oswiu’s daughter,married Peada, became a general Uí Néill saint, Ahlfrith,probably king of Deira Life of,on the construction ofráith a , ; married Penda’s daughter, on kings and churches, – patron of Wilfrid, – Áed mac Colgen,king of Leinster, rebelled against his father Oswiu, Áed mac Díarmata, aicme,equivalent to parentela, Áed mac Echach,king of the Connachta, Aidan (Aídán,Áedán),bishop of the Áed Oirdnide (Áed mac Néill), , , , Northumbrians, , , – – attitude of the ‘middle party’ to, , Áed Sláne,Uí Néill joint-king of Tara,, , – , Bede’s portrait of, – aggressive policy towards Leinster, cult of, see also Síl nÁeda Sláne friendship with Oswine, Áedán mac Gabráin,king of Dál Ríata,, relationship with Oswald, – names sons by same first name (Echoid), succeeded by Fínán, royal inauguration of, – translation of his relics into the church of áes dána,‘people of craft’, , Lindisfarne, áes trebtha,‘farming people’, , used royal vills, Æthelberg,Kentish princess married to Aided Echach maic Maireda maic Cairedo, Edwin,king of the Northumbrians, Aidne,district of, Æthelberht,king of Kent, –, see also Uí F·iachrach Aidne Æthelfrith,king of Bernicia and Deira,, Ail Clúaide, see Dumbarton – Ailbe,patron saint of Emly,associated with a Æthelthryth,queen,founder of church of Ely provincial cáin, enshrinement of body of, Ailbe,patron saint of Senchue (Shancough), gave Hexham to Wilfrid, Æthelwulf, De Abbatibus, – Aildobur,abbot of Roscommon,promulgates Aetius,Roman general,appeal of Britons to, Law of Commán, Ailech,seat of kingship of Cenél nÉogain, Aghaboe (Achad Bó),monastery of St (Map ) Cainnech, –, – Ailerán, sapiens (ecnae), – Agilbert,bishop of West Saxons and later of Ailill Molt,supposed king of Tara,–, Paris, , ainmne,‘patience’,recommended by Scéla Cano and Columbanian monasticism, meic Gartnáin, buried at Jouarre, Ainmuire mac Sétnai,king of Tara,, , studied in Ireland in the s, Agilulf,king of the Lombards,an Arian, Aircol,king of Dyfed, religious standpoint of,as seen by aire ard,grade of noble, , – Columbanus, aire coisring,representative of a non-noble with his queen Theudelinda,grants Bobbio kindred, , to Columbanus, , aire désa,grade of noble, , –, Agrestius,former monk of Luxeuil, aire échta,category of noble, – asked Eustasius that he be allowed to preach aire forgaill,grade of noble, –, , to pagans, aire tuísea,grade of noble, , – attacked Eustasius at the Synod of Mâcon, airecht,assembly of nobles acting as a court of law, had joined the Aquileian schism, Airgíalla,group of northern dynasties precipitated crisis for Columbanian monas- and Cenél nÉogain, – ticism, – and Patrick, role in Jonas’s Life compared with that of and the Uí Néill, , – Brunhild, – as part of Dál Cuinn, – Agricola son of Severianus,British Pelagian, associated with the northern Uí Néill, –
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military obligations of, , royal dynasties, , – originally not seen as descendants of Conn, Amand,saint,Jonas assists in his mission,, – , origin-legend of (‘The Three Collas’), – Ambrosius Aurelianus,parents of,wore the Poem on, –, purple, saw themselves as the army of the Uí Néill, Amlaíb (Óláfr),son of the king of Laithlind, – takes tribute from the Irish, airlise, , Ammianus Marcellinus,fourth-century Airmedach mac Conaill,may have been ally Roman historian, , , of Congal Cáech, Amolngid mac Conaing,killed at the battle of Airtech,Artech, , , Kells, Airther Maige, see Armoy Amolngid mac Éndai,king of Munster, Airthir,the (ind Airthir,Orientales, Amolngid mac Fíachrach,ancestor of Uí Anteriores), , , Amolngada,sons of, , , associated with Armagh, , see also Uí Amolngada aistreóir,‘doorkeeper’, Amra (Amrae) Choluim Chille (a lament for aithech,render-payer,base client,commoner, Columba), , , , –, earliest evidence for the Uí Néill, n. aithech ara-threba a deich, , , possibly commissioned by Áed mac aithechthúath,‘base-client people’, , , Ainmuirech, – and cáin, presents different picture of Columba from aitire,public surety or guarantor,and thecáin , that in Adomnán’s Life, – , – Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Germany, aitire chairdi,guarantor of a treaty, Anglo-Saxon royal centres, – Alamans,a federation of peoples,, Anmchad mac Con Cercae,king of Osraige, Alaric, attacked Leinster, –, Albanach,‘Briton’ and thus exile from overseas, Annals of Inisfallen,king-list in,–, Annegray,monastery founded by Alboin,king of the Lombards,, – Columbanus, , , rejected Catholicism in favour of Arianism, ánruth,grade of poet, Applecross,monastery of (Wester Ross), Alcuin, Aquileian schism (Three Chapters schism, Aldfrith,king of Northumbria Trecapitoline schism), attempts compromise settlement with history of, – Wilfrid, Aquileians,attitudes of,as perceived by friend of Adomnán,abbot of Iona,, Columbanus, – , , arae,‘charioteer’,the servant of the eirr sapiens, ‘chariot warrior’, sponsored in confirmation by Aldhelm, Araid, abbot of Malmesbury, Araid Clíach,‘charioteers of Clíu’,a Munster Wilfrid allowed back from exile after his people, death, archbishops Aldhelm,abbot of Malmesbury and subse- and the pallium, – quently bishop of Sherborne bishops of Armagh and Kildare claimed to on English in Ireland, , be, , – sponsored Aldfrith (later king of in Gregory the Great’s Registrum, – Northumbria) at confirmation, Justinian I and, – ale of Cúalu,as prerogative of the kingship of very rare in the West in the sixth and Leinster, seventh centuries, Alexandria,status of patriarchate of, Ard Cíannachtae, (Map ) alges, changing meaning of, , – Alhfrith,sub-king of Deira,supporter of Ard Éolarg, Wilfrid, – Ardagh,Co. Longford (Ardachad), (Map ), Allen (Almu),battle of,, , alternation in the kingship of Tara among linked with the cult of Brigit,
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used by Columba and known to where the Gospels of Mac Regol were Columbanus, – written, basilica,as used by Gregory of Tours,, where the Law of Adomnán was promul- Béccán mac Luigdech,probably author of two gated, poems on Columba, – bishops, –, –, – on Dál Ríata as ‘the land of Erc’, ‘bishop of bishops’, –, Bechbretha,a legal tract,on Congal Cáech, bishop of an overkingdom, – – bishop of a túath, Bede,Northumbrian exegete and historian chief bishop of the túath, described by the Irish as a sapiens, gifts to, Lives of Cuthbert, in the vernacular and canon laws, may have had an anachronistic notion of metropolitan, archbishops, ‘noble bishop’ (úasalepscop), on Adomnán, – their sees and dioceses, , on Aidan, – Tírechán’s account of networks of, –, on Aldfrith,king of the Northumbrians, – –, see also churches,episcopal on Columba’s mission to the Picts, The Bishops’ Synod (The First Synod of Saint – Patrick), – on the Easter question, – Bitheus (Betheus,Bite),bishop,disciple of on foreign visitors to Ireland, , Patrick,of Imblech nÓnonn, on Iona, , blaí,‘immunity from violence’,at Tailtiu,, on the Isle of Man, on Ninian of Whithorn and the southern Blaímacc,(bishop) of Tethbae, Picts, – Blathmac (also Blaímac) mac Áeda Sláne,king on Palladius, of Tara, – presented Aidan and Cuthbert,rather than blemish,physical,a disqualification for king- Wilfrid,as model bishops, ship, –, – rejected the view of Wilfrid that Aidan was blessing,as a form of royal inauguration, a heretic, – Benedict,saint, blinding,as a blemish in a king,– Columba seen as the Irish St Benedict, bóaire,category of freeman, , –, and inheritance, , Gregory the Great’s Life of, bóaire febsa, , on decani, bóaire tánaise, Benignus,heir of Patrick, bóaire tuísea, Bennchor, see Bangor Bobbio,monastery founded by Columbanus Beowulf,and paganism, abbots of, see Columbanus,Athala,Bertulf, Bernicia, – Bobolenus Bertulf,abbot of Bobbio, as defender of papal Rome in the Lombard Jonas acted as assistant to, kingdom, journey to Rome, –, continuing Irish links with, kinsman of Arnulf,bishop of Metz, granted to Columbanus by Agilulf and Bethu Brigte, Theudelinda, Binchy,D. A.,his views on the kingship of ordered by Pope Honorius I to champion Tara, –, – the cause of orthodoxy against the Arian Binén,heir of Patrick, see Benignus Lombards, – Binén,patron saint of Cell Bineóin Pope Honorius I’s privilege in favour of, (Kilbennan), relationship to Pavia, Birinus,bishop of the West Saxons, Bobolenus,abbot of Bobbio, Birr, (Map ), , Boíndrige,Munster people, involved in violence, Bóinrige, see Dál mBúain on the edge of Tír Cell (Cenél Fíachach), Boniface,Pope,Columbanus’ letter to, Boniface,saint, site of rígdál, – Book of Durrow, see manuscripts
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Book of the Angel (Liber Angeli), , Bridei, see Bruide date of, – Brigans, see also Armagh,archiepiscopal claims of Brigantes, , – Book of Armagh, see Armagh,Book of Brigantia, – Book of Cúanu,lost set of annals,– Brigit,saint, border region,around Slieve Bloom,, – and Bishop Brón mac Icni, Bosa,bishop of York, and Fothairt, bothach,category of half-free, , , , , and Leinster, – and Southern Tethbae, , Bothdomnach (Bodoney,Co. Tyrone), and Wales, – Boyle,monastery of,probably subject to Iona, as a slave, , father of,Dubthach, , Bradwell-on-Sea,former Roman fort and hagiography of,on magi, Cedd’s church, paruchia of, Bran mac Conaill,king of Leinster, see also Cogitosus, Bethu Brigte Bran mac Muiredaig (Bran Arddchenn),king Britain of Leinster, – Irish settlements in, – married to the sister of Donnchad mac Roman, – Domnaill,king of Tara, British Church Brandub mac Echach,king of Leinster,, and education, – Britons,and the conversion of the Irish,– Brecán,merchant of the Uí Néill,– lands of,used to endow Ripon, Brega, – moved away from their Roman past, attacked by Vikings, Britons of Strathclyde or Dumbarton, churches of, – involved in the conversion of the Picts, contrasted with Connachta, – earlier probably part of Leinster, , – relations with Dál Ríata, – English invasion of, , –, –, Broíchán,Pictish magus, –, ‘the head of all paganism and idolatry’ Brón mac Icni,saint and bishop,disciple of (Muirchú), Patrick,of Caisel Irrae, , – Southern, – Bructeri,constituent people of the Frankish Bregenz,Columbanus preached at, federation, Bregmaine, (Map ) Bruide mac Máelchon (Bridius filius Brendan,patron saint of Birr, Meilochon),king of the Picts,, , allied with Columba according to Adomnán, – and Columba’s mission to the Picts, Brendan,patron saint of Clonfert Bruide son of Derilei,king of the Picts allied with Columba according to guarantor of the Law of Adomnán, , Adomnán, – Brunhild,Frankish queen associated with cánai, and the marriage of her sister Galswinth to Bresal,abbot of Iona,promulgates the Law of Chilperic, Columba, , and the marriage of Ingund to Bresal mac Murchada, Hermenegild, Brétach,the, and the marriage of Theuderic II to Bretha Comaithchesa,legal tract on neighbour- Ermenberg, – hood, , – destruction of her descendants by Chlothar Bretha Nemed Toísech,Munster legal tract,and II, –, base clientship, hagiographical and historiographical and Tara, onslaught on her reputation, – Bretons, implications of her death for Jonas’ Life, Brí Éile,battle of,– – Brí Garad (Cell Garad),church of Céthech made a scapegoat by Jonas for ecclesiastical (Cethiachus,Caetiacus), –, disputes, Brí Léith (Co. Longford), made a scapegoat for the feuds of the Brían Bórama (Boru), , Frankish royal family,
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a second Jezebel according to Jonas, their dissolution, – bruth,‘ardour’,as personal quality, Cáin F·uithirbe, , Brycheiniog (kingdom in south Wales) Cainnech,patron saint of Aghaboe,–, bilingual inscriptions in, – Irish settlements in, allied with Columba according to ‘bull-ruler’ (tarbf˙laith), Adomnán, – bun,‘trunk’,a metaphor of kinship, cairde,‘alliance,treaty’, , Burgundy,Frankish kingdom in which as a mode of royal authority over sóerthúatha, Columbanus settled, ‘free peoples’, , burial practices, – Caisel, see Cashel Burrian,Knowe of, Caisel Irráe (Irroí,Irre),church of Bishop Brón, –, – Cadwallon,king of Gwynedd, , Calatruim (Galtrim), Caesarius of Arles, see Rule of Caesarius probable royal seat of a branch of the Uí Caill Húallech,church of Lonán mac Senaig Chernaig, , given by Clonmacnois to Clonard in calf of the road, exchange for two churches, , Callraige Tremaige, cáin,‘authority,edict,tribute,penalty’, Cambus (Camus),monastery of, as a mode of royal authority over Candidus,papal rector in Provence, aithechthúatha,‘base-client peoples’, , cano,grade of poet, Cano mac Gartnáin,Dál Ríatan prince, as an edict, – canon law,Irish,and the Old Testament, associated with the beginning of a reign, Canones Hibernenses, Canterbury,as a royal capital, associated with relics, – Carantocus,probably Breton,neighbouring banishment and, abbot and ally of Columbanus, debts of (féich cána), – Cardiff, forbach and, Carnutes,Gaulish tribe,annual assembly guaranteed by aitiri, among, in the annals, – Carolingian Renaissance,and Irish scholars, in Connaught, – – none associated with Leinster or Ulster, , Carrac,church of,acquired by Clones, Cashel,royal seat of kings of Munster,, of limited duration and thus re-enacted, – by ninth century known as ‘Cashel of the stewards of, – kings’, victim of Viking attacks, entry of kings into, see also law, rechtge Murchad mac Brain,king of Leinster,made Cáin Adomnáin,‘The Law of the Innocents’,, inaugural expedition against, –, , , rechtge of king of, and the term forus cáno, see also ‘Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde’ geographical scope of, (Corcu Loígde), Frithf˙olad Muman and guarantors of, ‘The Story of the Finding of Cashel’ kings of Munster in the guarantor-list of, Cassian,John,and cenobitic monasticism, – Institutes of, – operation of, – on decani and on the eight principal vices, promulgated at Birr, promulgated at a rígdál,also seen as ‘the works of,known to Columba and to Irish synod’, Cummian, re-enacted and associated with relics, Cathal mac Áeda (of Uí Chernaig), – referred to in Críth Gablach, Cathal mac Finnguini,king of Munster,, supported by Loingsech mac Óengusa, , Cáin Aicillne,legal tract on base clientship, Cathal mac Muiredaig,king of the Cáin Domnaig,‘The Law of Sunday’, Connachta, – Cáin Lánamna,legal tract on sexual unions and Cathbad,legendary druid, –
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Cenél Loairn (one of the cenéla of Dál Ríata), favourable to Cland Cholmáin between , , – and , Cenél Lóegairi (of the southern Uí Néill), for fifth and early sixth centuries, –, (Map ), –, , – associated with the church of Trim, on Coirpre mac Néill, – Cenél Maini, (Map ) on kings of Tara, – as king-makers, –, , church Cenél nÓengusa (one of the cenéla of Dál community of a church, – Ríata), – grades of the Church, –, – Cenn Fáelad mac Blathmaic,king of Tara, head of,derived high status from his church, omitted by Baile Chuinn, Ceolfrith,abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow local organisation of, – and Adomnán, , , , – churches and events of , alliances of, – and Lindisfarne, and dynasties, commissions the Codex Amiatinus, dependent, –, –, , – letter to Nechtan,king of the Picts,–, episcopal,lose episcopal rank because of , –, – political failure of their kingdoms, –, pupil of Wilfrid and monk of Ripon, , linked headships of,derived from a Cerae (Carra),district of, genealogical connection, Cerdraige,Munster people, status of, – Céthech (Cethiachus,Caetiacus),bishop, violence between,increasing in the late patron saint of Brí Garad, –, eighth century, – name probably British, – cíall,‘calculating intelligence’, Chad,saint,bishop of York and later of cíallf˙laith,‘wily ruler’, Lichfield, , Cíannacht Breg, (Map ), , , , , body of,enshrined at Lichfield, his supporters labelled ‘Quartodecimans’ by distribution of lands of, – Wilfrid’s supporters, part of their lands taken by the Uí Chagnoald,Frankish noble,bishop of Laon, Chonaing, Cíannacht Glinne Geimin, (Map ), welcomed Columbanus, (Map ), , Chalcedon,Council of, – Cíannachta,origin legend of,, –, Charles the Bald, , – Childebert I,king of the Franks,summons and the Uí Néill, – Council of Orléans in , fortúatha,said to be related to the Childebert II,king of the Franks,, Éoganachta, children, –, –, , – Cíarán of Clonmacnois,later became the protected by ‘the Law of the Innocents’, leading saint of the Connachta, Chilperic,king of the Franks, Law of, –, Chlothar I,king of the Franks,and Radegund, Cíarán of Saiger (Senchíarán), , n. – Cíarraige, arrangements for his burial, Cíarraige nAí, , –, –, Chlothar II,king of the Franks, Cíarraige nAirtig, (Map ) godfather of Merovech son of Theuderic II, Cíarraige Connacht, , , Cíarraige Lúachra, his interests served by Jonas’s Life of cimbid,‘one in bonds and liable to death- Columba, – penalty’, , , Chronicle of Ireland,xix Cináed mac Ailpín,king of Picts (and of Irish and the manner of death, – in Britain), dispassionate between and , Cináed mac Conaing,king of North Brega, does not include non-Uí Néill rulers,but rebelled against Máel Sechnaill, impartial among the Uí Néill between circuit (cúairt) and , as expression of lordship,
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circuit (cúairt) (cont.) rule of succession at, of overking and poet, Clovis,king of the Franks,– civitas,as major church,– established his cathedra regis in Paris, civitas refugii,‘city of refuge’, Cloyne (Clúain Úama),monastery (in Co. has a judge, Cork), Cland Cholmáin,branch of Uí Néill ruling ‘Conall Corc and the Corco Loígde’ written Mide, , (Map ), –, , at, alternate with Cenél nÉogain in the king- Clúain Alad Deirg,exchanged by Clonard for ship of Tara, – another church, favoured by the Chronicle of Ireland, Clúain Brónaig (Clonbroney),nunnery of, –, relationship to Granard, (Map ), genealogy of, Clúain Crema (Clonmellon), (Map ), , peaceable policy towards Leinster, rise of, Clúain Éois (Clones), supporters of the Columban federation, Clúain Ernáin (Clonarney), (Map ), , , Clann Donngaile,branch of Éoganacht Clúain F·ertae (Clonfert), (Map ), Chaisil, Clúain F·ertae Mo Lua (Clonfertmulloe), , clerics protected by ‘the Law of Innocents’, Clermont, Clúain F·ota Báetáin Aba (Clonfad), n., clí,grade of poet, (Map ) client,base,as kinsman, – cluchemag,‘playing-field’, ‘feeds’ his lord, Cnogbae, see Knowth clientship,base, , – Coeddi,bishop of Iona, n. the basis of nobility, – Cóeldub (Cóelub) mac Néill, generally endures till death of the lord,but Cogitosus, Vita S. Brigitae in Munster often longer, date of, in Munster, – on roads and the construction of a togher, of kings and peoples, – , – rests on scarcity of livestock, on the archiepiscopal status of Kildare, , clientship,free, – of kings and peoples, – Coílle Fallomuin,later representative of Cland clientship,ministerial, –, , Cholmáin Bicc, (Map ), no good evidence outside Munster for, Coímid maccu Baird, – Coindiri, see Connor Clíu,area in Munster (east Co. Limerick and Coire Brecáin,Corryvreckan,‘the cauldron of west Co. Tipperary), – Brecán’, – Clochar Macc nDaimíni (Clogher,Co. may originally have been Macdonnell’s Tyrone),royal seat of Síl nDaimíni, Race, (Map ) Coirpre mac Néill,eponymous ancestor of Cloítech (Clady?), Cenél Coirpri Clonard (Clúain Iraird), , , according to Tírechán,called ‘the enemy of community of,in skirmish with Donnchad God’ by Patrick, mac Domnaill, ‘the accursed Coirpre’ in the Tripartite Life, likely to have had a ‘bishop of bishops’ or metropolitan bishop, cursed by Patrick at Tailtiu according to Clones (Clúain Éois,Clúain Auis),acquires Tírechán, church of Carrac, – listed among kings of Tara in Baile Chuinn, Clonfert, see Clúain F·ertae – Clonmacnois (Clonmacnoise,Clúain Moccu more gently treated in the Vita Prima of Nois), (Map ), , , , , , Brigit, n. acquires Cell Thoch, Coirthech,king of Ail Chlúathe,see Coroticus claims church of Dumech, – Colcu mac Faílbi F·laind,king of Munster, contrasted with Crúachain, – Coleraine (Cúl Raithin),church of,, , involved in dynastic violence, –,
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Colla Fochríth, Law of, , Colla Mend,supposed ancestor of the Life of, see Adomnán,Life of St Columba Mugdorna, – oral traditions about, Colla Úais,supposed ancestor of Uí Maccu peregrinatio of,less far-reaching than that of Úais, – Columbanus, ‘Collas,The Three’, – portrayed by Adomnán in the tradition of collateral inheritance, – the great monastic saints, Collectio Canonum Hibernensis, –, , , relationship with contemporary monastic , leaders, – and Bible, relationship with kings, and bishops, , –, seen by Adomnán as the St Benedict of the and Bishops’ Synod, – Irish, –, and metropolitan bishops, –, sources for, – and paschal question, tried before a synod at Tailtiu, , compilers of, Columbanian monasticism on the scriptural scholar and law, different views of, – Colmán,bishop of the Northumbrians, in a stronger political position by the s, – – Colmán Elo (Colmán moccu Sailni),patron Columbanus (Colmán),common name based saint of Lynally, – on Latin columba, allied with Columba according to Columbanus,saint, , – Adomnán, – and Aquileian schism, – became a general Uí Néill saint, and Gildas, óenach of, and Irish nationality, –, – ‘the second patronus’ of Connor, and the monastic precinct, Colmán mac Feradaig,king of Osraige,– and the paschal question, Colmán of the Britons,abbot of Slane,possi- and the Roman Empire, ble author of a lost Life of Patrick, – and the Rule of St Benedict, – Cologne Prologue,and paschal chronology, appealed to Gregory the Great, – attitude of Frankish bishops to, –; indi- Colp,Co. Meath, see Inber Colptha cated by the letter of Laurence, Columba,saint,founder of Iona compares Irish and Frankish Christianity, and Cenél Conaill, , and Connachta, conception of the monastic life, – and lay people, diet in his monasteries, – and the Picts, – education of, –, and the Uí Néill, – founder of Annegray,Luxeuil and Fontaine, as prophet, – , community of,go to Tara to excommuni- influence of, – cate Áed Oirdnide, Latin style of, date of birth, a Leinsterman,leaves Ireland for Francia as education of, – a peregrinus, , encounter with a naturally good pagan, Letter I,to Gregory the Great,, , – , –, encounters with magi, – Letter II, family of, – Letter III, fosters alliance between Uí Néill and Dál Letter IV, –, – Ríata, Letter V, – founded Iona, – Life of, see Jonas of Susa funeral of, – no shrine of, grave of, possessed a file of penitential texts, inaugurated Áedán mac Gabráin as king, Regula Coenobialis of, – Regula Monachorum of, , knowledge of astronomy and the paschal relations with Theuderic II and Brunhild computus, according to Jonas, –, ,
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Columbanus,saint (cont.) Conchobar mac Donnchada,king of Tara, remembered Palladius as the first great mis- – sionary in Ireland, –, –, disrupts the óenach of Tailtiu, , royal support for, , – relative ineffectiveness of,and the Viking travelled to Burgundy via Brittany, attacks, welcomed by Chlothar II, Conchobor mac Nessa,legendary king of why exiled, – Ulster, , , , , , – wrote to Pope Boniface, , as tríath, comaithches, see neighbourhood Condmach mac Duib dá Leithe,abbot of comaithech,‘neighbour’,origin of term, Armagh, comchairde,‘joint alliance’,‘full alliance’, , Congal Cáech,Cruithnian king of Tara,, –, , Comgall,saint,founder of Bangor, Congalach mac Conaing,king of north Brega, allied with Columba according to – Adomnán, – Conmaicne Réin, (Map ) Commán,patron saint of Roscommon (Ross Conn Cétchathach, , Commáin), and his judge,Caratnia, Law of, , , as eponymous ancestor claimed by the common pasture shared by a túath, Connachta, , commoner,basis of status of,– descendants of,kindred of, compensation for killing or injury, see also Airgíalla,Dál Cuinn,Leth Cuinn Conailli Muirthemne,people and kingdom Connachta, (approx. modern Co. Louth,north of the and Columba, R. Dee), (Map ), and the Uí Néill, –, , , power of Cenél nÉogain over, – cánai frequent among, Conaire Már,legendary king of Tara,–, genealogy, , a group of dynasties claiming descent from Conall Cernach,legendary hero,, Conn Cétchathach, ‘Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde’, king of,as deputy king, written at Cloyne, king-list, – Conall Cremthainne, see Conall mac Néill kings of Tara as kings of, – Conall Cóel mac Maíle Coba,king of Tara, lands of, – not included in Baile Chuinn, – Law over, Conall Grant,of Uí Chernaig,victor in the never ruled Mide or Brega, battle of Kells, north-east boundary,for Tírechán,at Foyle, Conall Gulban (Conall mac Néill,ancestor of for Tripartite Life at Drowes, – Cenél Conaill), – origin-legends of, Conall mac Comgaill,king of Dál Ríata, see also Ailill Molt – Connor (Conderi,Condaire),episcopal church granted Iona to Columba, of, , , not involved in the battle of Móin Daire associated with Lynally and Laraghbryan, Lothair, – Conall mac Éndai mac Amolngada,ancestor by probably already the leading church of Tírechán, , among the Cruithni, – his descendants were ‘servants of Patrick’, founded by Mac Nisse, Conall mac Néill (Conall Cremthainne), an instrument of the political ambitions of ancestor of leading ruling dynasties of the Uí Chóelbad, southern Uí Néill, possessed many churches in Eilne, favoured by Tírechán, – taken by Uí Thuirtri in post-Viking period, in the Vita Prima of Brigit, n. – said to have given the land for,and marked see also Dál Sailni out,Domnach Pátraic, Constantinople,patriarch of, – Conall mac Suibni,king of Mide, Second Council of,never accepted by the killed Áed Sláne in revenge for his father, Franks, – Constantius,Life of Germanus,
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Cúl Raithin, see Coleraine Dál mBúain (Bóinrige), , – cumal,‘slavewoman’,also standard unit of Dál Cais, value, Dál Caladbuig, –, , Cumméne the Fair (White,Albus,Find), an aithechthúath, seventh abbot of Iona outlying territories of,among Corcu Mo extent of Iona’s influence in England under Druad and Uí Glainíne, him, – Dál Conchobuir, gens associated with the on Domnall Brecc, – church of Ardbraccan, on the inauguration of Áedán mac subsumed within Déisi Breg, Gabráin, – Dál Cuinn and the Airgíalla, – wrote Book on the Miracles of Power of Columba, Dál nEchdach,ruling gens of the Fothairt, – Cumméne of the Mugdornai, Dál Fíatach,ruling gens of the Ulaid, , Cumméne the Tall,asapiens , genealogy, – probably identical with Cummian,author Dál Mennat, – of a penitential and perhaps with the Dál Ríata,ruling gens and kingdom in NE Co. Cummian who wrote the Letter on the Antrim and in Argyll, , , Paschal Question, and ‘the land of Erc’, Cummian (author of Letter on the Paschal Armoy the principal church within the Irish Question), , , –, – section of, anticipated the attack on the Celtic Easter artistic links of, – mounted by Wilfrid, constituent cenéla of, – argued that the Irish and the Britons were relationship of Iona to, isolated on the Easter question, settlement in Scotland, described Patrick as papa noster, , Dál Sailni, gens exegesis of New Testament by, – associated with the church of Connor, , on abbots consulted about the paschal ques- – tion, associated with the churches of Lynally and supporter of Victorius of Aquitaine, –, Laraghbryan, regarded as an aithechthúath, Curragh,and the kingship of Leinster, retains separate identity, – battle of, Dalkey Island,a possible emporium, cursive script in the Late Roman Empire Dallán Forgaill, , (‘New Roman Cursive’), – see also Amra Choluim Chille Cuthbert,saint,bishop of Lindisfarne dám,‘company’, among those removed from Ripon to make damnae ríg,‘material of a king’,– way for Wilfrid, Daniel,bishop of Winchester,on how to argue consecration of, with pagans, context of the translation and enshrinement Dar Í,law of, n. of, – Dark Age,as term for the late Iron Age in cult in relation to that of Aidan, Ireland, – opposed Ecgfrith’s attack on Brega, daughters’ rights of inheritance, shrine pre-eminent at Lindisfarne, decani, , n. Deer Park Farms, , , Dado, déis,‘retinue’, –, , Dagán,bishop, Déiss Deiscirt (Southern Déiss), , (Map Dagobert I,king of the Franks,, , ) Daig,patron saint of Inis Caín Dega, Déiss Thúaiscirt (Northern Déiss), (Map Daiminis (Devenish),island monastery of, ) Dairinis,church on the Blackwater in Déisi, see Déssi Munster, Delbnae Assail, (Map ), , dairying,possibly not practised in Iron-Age and Armagh, , Ireland, Delbnae Bethra, (Map ), , , Dál nAraidi,ruling gens among the Cruithni, Demetae, see Dyfed –, –, , deochain,‘deacon’,
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deputy kings, see king Co. Down), , derbf˙ine, –, Domnach Mór Maige Echnach, Derry,monastery of the Columban federa- Domnach Mór Maige Ítha (Donaghmore,Co. tion, Donegal), date of foundation, , Domnach Mór Maige Lúadat (Donaghmore, descent and febas,‘excellence’, – Co. Kildare), n., Desiderius,bishop of Cahors, Domnach Mór Maige Seólai, (Map ), Desiderius,bishop of Vienne,expulsion of, Domnach Mór Maige Tóchuir (Donagh, Carndonagh,Co. Donegal), Déssi (Déisi) Breg, Domnach Mór Roigni (Donaghmore,Co. Déssi Muman, , (Map ) Kilkenny), (Map ), – Dessmumu,South Munster (Desmond), Domnach Mór ‘super siluam Fochluth’, –, church of Mucnoe, (Map ), , – Díarmait (alias Mo Dímmóc),patron saint of Domnach Pátraic (Donaghpatrick,Co. Killeshin (Glenn Uissen), Meath), , (Map ) Díarmait mac Áeda Sláne,king of Tara, apparently not episcopal, ally of Domnall mac Áeda at the battle of Domnach Sechnaill (Dunshaughlin,Co. Mag Roth, Meath), , Díarmait mac Cerbaill,king of Tara,, apparently not episcopal, –, , , Domnall,bishop, killing of, , Domnall Brecc,king of Dál Ríata,–, Díarmait mac Domnaill, ally of Congal Cáech in , – díberg,and Patrick’s Letter to the Soldiers of Domnall mac Áeda,king of Tara Coroticus, Adomnán on, – díbergach,‘reaver’, , , , – defeated and killed Congal Cáech, Díchu mac Trichim, – included by Baile Chuinn, – a naturally good pagan, Domnall mac Maic Ercae,king of Tara, see also Uí Díchon –, Dícuil,Irish geographer,on the northern isles, Domnall mac Murchada,king of Tara, Iceland and the Vikings, – – diet, cáin of a saint becomes common during his Dímma Camchoss (Dímma mac Áeda Croin), reign, a king of Fothairt, – peaceable policy towards Leinster, , , dinds˙enchas,‘place-name learning’, Dinllaen,place in Gwynedd,origin of the succession struggle at the end of the reign name, of, diocese victor at the battle of Serethmag, in Late-Roman sense, Donatus,bishop of Besançon,godson of divorce, see parting Columbanus, , Do Biu (Do Bí),patron saint of Inis Causcraid Rule of, (Inch), Donnchad mac Domnaill,king of Tara, Do Bonnae maccu Baird, –, doctores, aggressive policy towards Munster inherited doíre, by Máel Sechnaill I, – Dom Liacc (Duleek), attacks ‘the North’, associated with Cíannacht Breg, defeats Síl nÁeda Sláne, – had bishops and scribae, disrupts the óenach of Tailtiu, domnach, –, , – favours the familia of Columba, Domnach Mór Maige X, generally peaceable policy towards Leinster, Domnach Combair (Muckamore,Co. , – Antrim), in dynastic struggle in last years of his Domnach Maigen (Donaghmoyne,Co. father’s reign, Monaghan), (Map ), insults the Staff of Jesus and the relics of Domnach Mór (near Navan,Co. Meath), Patrick, Domnach Mór Maige Coba (Donaghmore, occupies Ráith Ailinne, –
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Donnchad mac Domnaill,king of Tara,(cont.) Dumae Achir,battle of,– promulgates the Law of Columba, , Dumbarton (Ail Clúade), – role in undermining the peace on the fron- Dumech,church of tier with Munster, – allied with Tamnach, – sister,Eithne,married to Bran mac claimed by Clonmacnois, Muiredaig,king of Leinster, dún,‘fort’, –, – murdered,with her husband, Dún mBile,battle of, summons synods of Uí Néill and Dún Cúair, , , Leinstermen to Tara, , Dún nEochaille (Donohill),royal seat of Cenél Donus,bishop of Messina,received the Fergusa Scandail, , , , pallium from Gregory the Great, Dún nGúaire, – dos,grade of poet, Dún Lethglaise, see Downpatrick Downpatrick (Dún Lethglaise),royal seat and Dún Sebuirgi (Dún Sobairche,Dunseverick), later church, , – , , and Nendrum, Rock of Patrick at, attacked by Vikings, dúnad,‘encampment’, Druim Lethglaise may have been the origi- disruption of, nal church, – Dunadd,royal fort in Dál Ríata,excavations Dún Lethglaise,the royal fort,may have at, – been ‘the Mount’, Dúngal Raithlind,king of Éoganacht Dowth, Raithlind, drisiuc,grade of poet, Durham Liber Vitae, Drowes,river,for Tripartite Life the north- Durrow (Dairmag,Daurmag),and Cenél eastern boundary of Connaught, Fíachach, druids date of foundation, , as magi, – a dependent house of Iona, different views of, – in or close to Mag Léne, lost power and status after conversion to involved in violence, , – Christianity, – patronised by the kings of Mide in the said to have been confronted by Patrick, , eighth century, , , – Dyfed (kingdom in south-west Wales) said to reverence a well, Irish origin claimed for the dynasty of, – Druimm Bó (Drumbo,Co. Down), Irish settlements in, , – Druimm Cete,‘conference of the kings’ at, dynastic prophecy, – –, dynasties,failing, Druimm Clíab (Drumcliff), Druimm Derg,battle of, Eadberht,bishop of Lindisfarne, Druimm Inasclainn (Dromiskin,Co. Louth), Eadfrith,bishop of Lindisfarne,scribe of the , Lindisfarne Gospels, Druimm Snechtai (Drumsnat), , – Eadhæd,bishop of Lindsey, Druimm Túama (Drumhome),monastery Eanfled,Oswiu’s queen,observed Roman subject to Iona, , Easter, Drumanagh,a possible emporium, Eanfrith,king of Bernicia, , Dub dá Lethe,abbot of Armagh,and the pro- Easter,date of,how determined, – mulgation of the Law of Patrick, , Alexandrian or Dionysiac, –; adopted – in Rome between and , – dubf˙ine, and the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Dublin,Viking longphort (and earlier a church), Bread, –, – , – Celtic,exegetical basis of,– Dublittir,anchorite and leader of theCéli Dé, Cummian’s exegesis, – Dubthach macc Lugair, fili, –, Cycles, – dugu«,body of English noblemen of mature First Council of Nicaea on, age, in the New Testament, – Dulane (Tuilén,Tuilián),monastery of, see also paschal controversy Dul Óchéni (valley of R. Faughan,Co. Eata,abbot of Lindisfarne,later bishop of Londonderry), Lindisfarne and Hexham
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consecrated to Lindisfarne and Hexham by English invasion of Ireland in , Archbishop Theodore, , occasion for a rechtge, – position of, entry by a king into his seat of kingship, removed from Ripon to make way for Eochaid mac Domnaill,king of Tara,–, Wilfrid, East Anglia, , Eochu mac Coirpri, – ecclesia,meaning when used by Gregory of Éogan mac Ailella (Éogan Már),eponymous Tours, , ancestor of the Éoganachta, –, ecclesiastical families, – – ecclesiastical titles,plurality of, Éogan mac Cléirig,bishop of the Connachta, Ecgberht,king of Kent, Ecgberht of Ráith Máelsigi and Iona, , Éogan mac Crundmaíl,of Uí ·Fidgenti, –, , Éogan mac Néill,eponymous ancestor of and Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, – Cenél nÉogain, and n. Ecgfrith,king of the Northumbrians, Patrick’s ‘faithful friend’, his army invaded Brega, , , – Éoganacht Áine (when excluded either Cenél killed at the battle of Nechtanesmere, , nAngsae or Uí Éndai),around Emly,Co. Limerick, (Map ), role in first expulsion of Wilfrid, , excluded and named Cenél nAngsae in ecnae, , see also sapiens,scholar ‘Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde’, Echainech,church of, genealogy, education, – part of the ‘inner circle’ in Frithf˙olad Muman, Edwin,king of the Northumbrians, – translation of body to Whitby, Éoganacht Airthir Chlíach,on borders of Co. Eilne (Mag nEilni),kingdom between Bann Limerick and Co. Tipperary, (Map ) and Bush, , , (Map ), and Cenél Fergusa Scandail, – conquered by a branch of the Uí Chóelbad Éoganacht Chaisil, (Map ), (Dál nAraidi), attitude of genealogical poem to, – Einhard,Life of Charlemagne, genealogy, eirr, see errid part of the inner circle, – Eithne daughter of Mac Naue,mother of Éoganacht Glendamnach,around Glanworth, Columba, – Co. Cork, (Map ) Elen,island monastery of,dependent on Iona, favoured by Cloyne,as in ‘Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde’, Éli,people in north-east Munster, (Map gave the land for the foundation of Cloyne, ), , – Eligius,bishop,founder of Solignac, genealogy of, Elmet,British kingdom conquered by Edwin part of the ‘inner circle’ of the Éoganachta, of Northumbria, – Élodach mac Dúnlainge,king of Dessmumu, Éoganacht Locha Léin,around Killarney,, (Map ) élud,‘desertion’,‘evasion of obligation’, excluded by Frithf˙olad Muman, – Emain Machae (Navan Fort,Co. Armagh),, genealogy of, , , –, see also Íarlúachair,Íarmumu Óengus the Culdee on, Éoganacht Raithlind, (Map ) saga’s explanation of the meaning of the ‘Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde’ hostile name, – to, emporia,‘gateway communities’, excluded by Frithf˙olad Muman, – Emly (Imlech nIbair),monastery of,, owe military service, Éndae mac Néill (eponymous ancestor of Éoganachta (ruling dynasties of Munster), Cenél nÉndai), – Emly the principal church of, English in Ireland, establish their power in Munster in the sixth monks in Ireland receive free maintenance, century with Uí Néill help, – genealogies of, – students in Ireland receive free teaching and inclusive view of,presented in the poem of maintenance, Luccreth moccu Chíara, –
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Éoganachta,( cont.) eponymous ancestor of Coílle Fallomuin, inner circle of, –, – origin-legends of, –, – False Judgements of Caratnia (Gúbretha Caratniad), peripheral (not of inner circle),treated as legal tract, free clients by Frithf˙olad Muman, –, fame, familia,monastic, – political divisions among, – Fanat, Erc mac Dego,patron saint of Slane,– Faremoutiers-en-Brie,nunnery of, relics taken on circuit, Rule followed at, érlam,patron saint, patronus, , , Faroes, Ermenberg,Visigothic princess,betrothed to Faustus of Riez, , Theuderic II, febas,‘personal excellence’,and claims to ernaidm,‘bethrothal,vicarious binding’,and office, –, royal inauguration, Fedelm the prophetess, – errid,‘chariot-warriors’,as a term for nobles, Fedilmid (Feidilmid,Fedlimid),abbot of Kilmoone and máer of Brega for Patrick, Erris, see Irrus Domnann Ess Rúad (Assaroe), Fedilmid mac Crimthainn (Fedlimid), , , Essex, Etech of Mo Cháe of Nendrum (staff of Mo in early ninth century,southern Uí Néill suf- Cháe,a relic), fered much more from him than from the Eterscél mac Maíle hUmai,king of Munster, Vikings, , reasons for his aggression against monaster- Eustasius,abbot of Luxeuil, ies, missionary work among the Bavarians, successes of,reversed by Máel Sechnaill, probably Gallo-Roman, – refused Agrestius’ request that he be Fedlimid mac Tigernaig,early king of allowed to preach to pagans, Munster said to have been commanded by said not to have entered Cashel, Columbanus to seek the patronage of Felartus (Felarte),patron saint of Domnach Chlothar II, Mór Maige Seólai, see also Agrestius,Synod of Mâcon Felix,bishop of East Anglia excelsus princeps, collaborated with Fursa and had high exile,as penalty for infringement ofcáin a , regard for Aidan, exile,status of, likely to have had a Columbanian back- exorcistid,‘exorcist’, ground, – ‘Expulsion of the Déissi’,early Irish origin- Felle, (Map ), legend, – Femen (district close to Tara; another Femen was between Cashel and Clonmel) face battle of, – and honour, – Féni,originally a term for a confederation of value of, peoples, Fáelán mac Colmáin,king of Leinster,, as the dominant people of all Ireland, Fáelán mac Dímma,king of Uí· idgenti,F as a term for one cenél,‘race’,in Ireland, – Fénius Farrsaid, – Fáelgus mac Nad Froích,king of Éoganacht fer fothlai,‘man of withdrawal’, Chaisil, – fer midboth,‘man of middle huts’,– Faílbe,eighth abbot of Iona, Feradach Find Fechtnach,legendary king, Faílbe Flann,king of Munster,– Fergal mac Maíle Dúin,king of Tara,, Failge Berraide,eponymous ancestor of the Uí aggressive policy towards Leinster, , , F·ailgi, – – fair, see óenach kills Conall Grant in , faithche, – Fergus mac Léti,legendary king of Ulster, Fallomon mac Con Congalt,king of Mide, –, , – and Dorn,
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Fergus mac Roíg,legendary hero,– and Baile Chuinn, Fergus Scandal,early Munster king, and Tírechán, – Fernmag (kingdom of Uí Nad Slúaig), Finten son of Telchán, see Munnu (Map ), Fir Airde Cíannachtae, feud, Fir Bile,people in Mide, among the Uí Néill, – Fir Chell, and cáin, Fir Cherai,people in Connaught, and sanctuary, Fir Cul mBreg (Fir Chúl), (Map ), Fíacc,supposed first bishop of the see also Cúla Breg Leinstermen, Fir Lí, see Lee,kingdom of Fíachna Cassán,ancestor of the Airthir, Fir Maige Féne,Munster people around – Fermoy, (Map ), , Fíachna mac Báetáin,possible king of Tara, Fir Roiss,previously part of the Mugdorna, –, defeated the Cíannacht Breg, , Fir Thelach,people in Mide, victor in the Battle of Slíab Cua, , Flaithbertach mac Loingsig,king of Tara,, Fíachrae mac Cíaráin,‘one of the two founders of Derry’, Flann Febla,both abbot and bishop of Fíachu mac Néill (eponymous ancestor of Armagh,and suí, Cenél Fíachach), – Flann mac Áeda,of Síl nDlúthaig, and the conquest of Mide, –, Flann mac Cellaig,abbot of Finglas,scriba and fían,‘warband’, , – anchorite and bishop, and the early conquests of the sons of Níall, Flann Mainistrech,verse king-list ofRíg ( – Themra tóebaige íar tain), Fib (Fife), Flann Sinna,king of Tara fidchell,a board game, Marianus Scottus’ king-list derives from one fief of base clientship, – drawn up during his reign (–), as ‘forepurchase’ of annual renders, – fili,‘learned poet’,‘seer’, , , –, , Flavian,patriarch of Constantinople, –, flescach,category of minor, and the tecosc, – Florianus,bishop of Arles, origin of the term, Fochart (Faughart,Co. Louth) see also Dubthach maccu Lugair, Uraicecht na battle of, Ríar church of, Fínán,bishop of the Northumbrians,– Fochlae (ind F·ochlae,‘the North’), , Findbarr (Finnio,Vinniauus),bishop and increasingly separated from Mide and patron saint of Mag mBili, Brega, connection with Dál Fíatach, fochloc,grade of poet, possibly author of the Penitential of Fochloth (Fochluth,Voclut),Wood of, , Vinnian, probably Columba’s principal teacher, see also Domnach Mór ‘super siluam – Fochluth’ Findchad (Finchad,Finchath) mac Garrchon, Fogartach mac Néill, early Leinster king, –, Fomorians, Findglas (Finglas),monastery of, Fontaine,monastery on the slopes of the associated with Gailenga Becca, Vosges founded by Columbanus, , had bishops and scribae, food-renders, Findmag, force,use of,discouraged in kings,– Findubair Abae (Fennor), Fordruim (church in Delbnae Assail), , fine,‘kindred’, Forgnaide, Finnian (Finnio maccu Thelduib),patron saint Forgus mac Maic Ercae,king of Tara,–, of Clonard, relics of,taken on circuit, forsluinti,‘external kindreds’, Fíns˙nechtae Fledach,king of Tara,, , fort, see dún Forth Mountain,
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Kelleher,J. V,on the Uí Néill and the kingship Lann Léire (Dunleer),episcopal church, of Tara, Lastingham,monastery of, Kells, , Latharnae (people and kingdom around patronised by the kings of Mide, Larne), (Map ) Kenfig,Glamorgan,bilingual inscription from, uncertain whether they belonged to Dál – nAraidi, Kildare, , (Map ) Lathrach Briúin (Laraghbryan,Co. Kildare), and the Fothairt, , (Map ) archiepiscopal claims of, , –, – Latin in the addition to the Book of the Angel, as a spoken language in post-Roman Britain, – threatens independence of Sleaty, – loanwords in Irish, Killare, see Cell Áir Laurence,metropolitan bishop of Canterbury, kindred of poets, letter to the Irish Church, king law,Irish accessibility of, – and natural goodness, advice directed at, – as prophecy, and cánai, on the kingship of Tara, – and judge, , – ‘law of the face’, deputy, –, law of nature and Irish law, designation of royal heir to be distinguished Law,a (lex, cáin, recht, rechtge), , , – from inauguration, see also Brendan of Clonfert,Cíarán, dún of, , – Columba,Commán,Dar Í,Patrick, grades of, –, – Súanach,descendant of hospitality to, – lawyers, inauguration of, , – Lebor Gabála Érenn,‘The Book of the Taking of of a province, Ireland’, – of a túath, Lee,kingdom of (Fir Lí), (Map ), perceived as one kind of lord, flaith, Leinster,province of, (Map ), (Map truth/justice of, ) see also seats of kingship, rí,Tara abandons Celtic Easter king of Leth Cuinn, and conversion, – king of Uí Néill and Roman imports, in the poem on the Airgíalla also styled lord and the Uí Néill in the eighth century, – of Tailtiu, early kings of,ruled Tara,– kingship genealogies, , – physical blemish a disqualification for, – involved in Irish settlements in Britain, Kinnity,monastery of,on the edge of Tír Cell, king of,and the Loígsi,; may attend an óenach in Mide, , kinship, – king-lists, – ancestor-focus and ego-focus in, larger in the fourth and fifth centuries, , and alliance, – – artificial,constructed by conversion,– no provincial cáin attested for, , , kinship of inheritance patrilineal, – overlordship over,claimed by Munster, maternal,and kingship, – Patrician claims to churches in, terms, – seventh-century kings of,came from three Knowth (Cnogbae), , (Map ), dynasties, warfare on borders of, – Laidcenn mac Bairceda,early poet, Leinstermen,distinguished from Féni and Laigin Desgabair (southern Leinstermen), Ulaid, attacked by the king of Leinster at the óenach Leo the Great,pope,, of Colmán, links with Prosper, –, Laisrén,third abbot of Iona, on the missionary role of Rome, –, lánamnas comthinchuir,‘sexual union of joint- Leontius,metropolitan bishop of Bordeaux, contribution’, –
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Lérins,monastery of, may not have been a son of Níall, les,‘enclosure’,‘enclosed farmhouse and build- portrayed as accompanied by druids,but ings’,‘ringfort’, , , defeated by St Patrick, – see also ringfort portrayed by Muirchú as the emperor of the Leth Cam,battle of, barbarians, Leth Cuinn, portrayed by Muirchú as the extent of, Nebuchadnezzar of pagan Ireland, , Law imposed on, political order of,indicated byScéla Éogain supposed authority as king of Tara, , – Cormaic, Loígse Réta, Leth Moga, Loígsi (Laíchsi), (Map ), líachtreóir,‘lector’, Loingsech mac Óengussa,king of Tara, Líath Mancháin (Lemanaghan,Co. Offaly), collaborates with Adomnán in the promul- monastery of, (Map ), , gation of ‘The Law of the Innocents’ Liber Anatolii, , (Cáin Adomnáin), Librán,monk of Columba, – Lombards,invasion of Italy, – Librán,monk of Columbanus, Lommainech,king of the Maugdornai, Life (Liffey),plain of,see Mag Lifi,river (= Lommán,patron saint of Trim,, Ruirthech), (Map ) Lonán mac Senaig, Life of a saint,concept of,– Lorcán mac Cathail,king of Mide, Lind Dúachaill (Annagassan),church and, lord, – later,Viking longphort, (Map ), , required to judge justly, –, , see also clientship,noble Lindisfarne (Medcoit), (Map ), Lothian,date of Northumbrian conquest of, and Wilfrid, , , remained loyal to the memory of Aidan, Lúachair,battle of, n., – Luccreth moccu Chíara,poem on the Lindisfarne Gospels, see manuscripts Éoganachta attributed to, – literacy,beginnings of, – Lug,pagan god, literature,early Irish,intended audience of, Lugaid mac Lóegairi,supposed early king of Tara, livestock,part of the basis of a commoner’s Lugmad (Louth),monastery of, (Map ) status, Columban monastery close to, Lleyn (Llyˆn peninsula),origin of the name, Lugnae Fer Trí, see Luigne Fer Trí Loch Awe,Columban monastery at, Lugnasad (originally the feast of the god Lug, Loch Cúan (Strangford Lough), (Map ) at the beginning of August), Loch nEchach (Lough Neagh), (Map ) óenach of Tailtiu probably held at, , Loch nGabor (Lagore), (Map ), , Luigne Fer Trí,legendary fosterer of Cormac Loch Loíg (Belfast Lough), (Map ) mac Airt, – Loch Rudraige (Dundrum Bay),monster of, Luigni, (Map ), (Map ), –, , – Lusk (Lusca),monastery of, (Map ), Loch nÚaithne (Lough Ooney),crannóg of, and a branch of Cíannacht Breg, royal seat of Uí Nad Slúaig, (Map ), had bishops and scribes, n. shrine of the patron saint of,insulted at Lochéne Menn,both sapiens and scriba, óenach Tailten, Lóegaire mac Néill,king of Tara,, Luxeuil,monastery founded by Columbanus, ancestor of a minor royal dynasty (Cenél , Lóegairi), , abbots of, see Columbanus,Eustasius, as judge of a succession dispute among the Waldebert sons of Amolngid, , , , made its peace with Chlothar II, daughters of, – nursery of bishops, edict of, probable royal involvement in its founda- gives fosterage-fee on behalf of his brother tion, Éndae, site of, improbably early date of, – Lynally (Lann Elo,Lann Ela),monastery of, in the laws, links with Connor, (Map ),
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site of an óenach, Mag nEchnach, , within Tír Cell (Cenél Fíachach), Mag nEchredd, Lyons,bishop of, – Mag nEilni, see Eilne described as patriarch, , Mag nÉo na Saxan (Mayo of the English), subscribed first at ‘national’ councils, monastery of, (Map ), , see also Aridius,Nicetius,Treticus Mag nÉolairg, , (Map ) Mag nInis,territory of the Ulaid, Mac Caírthinn mac Cóelbad,possible early Vikings defeated in, king of Leinster, – Mag nÍtho (nÍtha) divergent identifications of his father, – in the north-west, Mac(c) Con mac Luigdech,legendary king of in the south-east,Mag nÍtha Fothart, Tara, , , , – Mag Latrain, (Map ) Macc Cuilinn,patron saint of Lusk,shrine of, Mag Léne,Synod of,, Mag Lifi, – Macc Dregin, Mag Line,leading kingdom of the Cruithni Macc Ercae mac Maic Dregin,patron saint of and Dál nAraidi, , (Map ), –, Cell Róe Móre, – , , , Macc Nisse,patron saint of Connor,– and royal forts, Macc Óige of Applecross,abbot of Bangor, see also Dál nAraidi,Ráith Becc,Ráith Mór, maccóem, Uí Chóelbad macf˙uirmid,grade of poet, Mag Lunge (Columban monastery on Tiree), Machae (goddess), , , macrad,‘group of boys’, – Mag Mucrama,site of legendary battle, Macs˙lechta,‘Categories of Child’,legal tract, Mag Muirthemne, , Mag Rath, see Mag Roth Máel Coba mac Áeda,king of Tara, Mag Roigni,in Osraige,– Máel Dúin mac Áeda Bennáin,king of Mag Roth (Mag Rath,Moira,Co. Down) Munster, site of, (Map ) Máel Finnián húa Óenaig,heir of Feichíne and battle of (AD ), , –, bishop of the peoples of the Luigni, Mag Sereth, Máel Gúala,king of Munster, Mag Singite, – Máel Póil mac Ailella, suí and bishop of Síl Mag Taidcni, nÁeda Sláne, Mag Teloch, Máel Rúain,abbot of Tallaght,a leader of the associated with St Brigit, Céli Dé, , , – served by eighteen churches, Máel Sechnaill mac Maíle Rúanaid (Máel see also Fir Thelach Sechnaill I), , Mag Tóchuir, , (Map ) used rígdál, Mag Tuired (Moytirra,Moytura), plundered Dublin, magi victorious over Vikings, confronted by Columba, – máer, equated with druids, mag (campus), Maglocunus (Maelgwn), Mag nAí, , , Maicc Eirc (branch of Uí Ailella), Mag nAssail, Maigen,church lost by heirs of Patrick to the Mag mBile,kingdom in Mide, community of Columba, see also Fir Bile Maine,bishop,of Echainech,protects Maicc Mag mBili (Movilla),monastery of, (Map ), Eirc from Patrick, Maine mac Néill (eponymous ancestor of attacked by Vikings, Cenél Maini), – founded by Bishop Findbarr,who was later as king-maker, – claimed by the Uí Díchon of Saul, Maine mac Néill,of Uí Chernaig, Mag Cerai, Mainistir Buíti (Monasterboyce), (Map ) Mag Cobo, (Map ), an episcopal church, see also Uí Echach Maige Cobo Maistiu,seat of kingship of the Uí Dúnlainge Mag nDomnann (nDomnon), and later the Uí Muiredaig, see also Irrus Domnann some Fothairt settled nearby, n.
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Malach the Briton, only child of Theuderic II to escape death manach,‘monk’,‘ecclesiastical tenant’, –, in , , possibly became monk at Bobbio, n. Manannán mac Lir,pagan god of the sea, Merovingian kings,genealogical tree of, Manchán,founder and patron saint of Líath sexual unions of, Mancháin (Lemanaghan), succession to, – manchuine,service provided by client,, Míads˙lechta,legal tract on status,, – manuscripts Mide (Meath), , – Bangor Antiphonary, , contrasted with Connachta, Bodleian Library,Oxford,Hatton MS , growing military pressure in the ninth – century on, , Book of Durrow, , , – ‘of Mide’ as an epithet of kings, – Book of Kells, ‘Middle Irish king-list’, –, – Canterbury Codex Aureus, migration,usually dishonourable for a layman, Codex Amiatinus, – Corpus Christi College,Cambridge,MS Miliucc maccu Búain (Mílchú maccu Bóin), , Patrick’s supposed master, , , , Durham Gospels, milk and milk-products, – Lichfield Gospels, , , n. ministerial clientship, see clientship,ministerial Lindisfarne Gospels, , , –, – miracles,of prophecy and power,– Mac Regol’s Gospels, Mo Cháe,patron saint of Nendrum,– (lost) Ripon Gospels, , Mochta,bishop of the Uí Néill andsacart of Stonyhurst Gospel of St John, Armagh, mobility of, – moccu (mocu, maccu), quires consisting of quaternions or quin- Móenach mac Fíngin,king of Munster, ions, –, Móenech (Moínech,Móenach) mac see also Insular script,half-uncial,uncial Muiredaig,early Leinster king,– , see Mac Móin Daire Lothair,battle of,– Caírthinn mac Cóelbad Mo Lua moccu Óchae,patron saint of Marcian,Roman emperor, Clonfertmulloe, n., – Marianus Scottus,king-list of,– Monasterboyce, see Mainister Buíti market, monastery,community of, – Maroveus,bishop of Poitiers in peregrinatione, refuses to install the relic of the True Cross rule of succession in, – in Poitiers, monastic rules, – marriage, – monasticism,and Patrick, – across the boundaries of a túath, – Mongán mac Fíachnai,father said to be demonstration of rank, Manannán, Martin,saint, Monoth, shrine of, moralities,heroic and prudential,– Mathona,nun,co-founder of Tamnach, , Movilla, see Mag mBili Matudán mac Muiredaig,king of the Ulaid, Moy (Múad),river, see also Uí F·íachrach Múaide Mayo, see Mag nÉo na Saxan mruigf˙er,‘land-man’,‘strong farmer’,rank of Medard,saint,bishop of Noyon,shrine of, freeman, , –, Mucnoe,patron saint of Domnach Mór ‘super Medcoit,British name for Lindisfarne, siluam Fochluth’, –, – Mél,saint and bishop of Ardagh, Mugdorn Dub,legendary ancestor of the Mellbretha,‘Judgements on Games’,a legal Mugdorna, – tract, Mugdorna (Maugdorne,Mugdornai), (Map Melrose,monastery of, (Map ), ), –, Mennet Chruithnech,supposed ancestress of Mugdorna Breg, , the Mugdorna, – Mugdorna Maigen, Merovech,son of Theuderic II and godson of see also Fir Roiss Chlothar II, muinter,‘household’, –,
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Muirchertach mac Muiredaig (Mac Ercae), additional name (forainm/cognomentum), , – active in Munster, borrowed,from British, ; from Latin, – see also Cenél Maic Ercae nicknames, Muirchú,Life of Patrick by,, , patronymics, date of, – pet-names of monks,used by Irish and on Dubthach maccu Lugair, – Britons, on Patrick’s confrontation with the druids of Nath Í,supposed early king,father of Ailill Lóegaire, – Molt, , on Saul and Downpatrick, – Nath Í mac Garrchon, Muiredach mac Murchada,his ancestors Nechtan son of Derilei,king of Picts, through women, – Nechtanesmere,battle of, , Muiredach mac Rúadrach,king of Leinster, neighbourhood (comaithches), – and kinship, Muirgus mac Tommaltaig,king of created by an exchange of ‘forepledges’, Connachta,promulgates Law of Cíarán, nemed,‘sacred’,used of freemen, , – Nendrum (Nóendruim) promulgates Law of Commán, Crónán,bishop of, Mull,isle of, peppercorn rent demanded by the heirs of Mungret (Mungairit),monastery of, Patrick from, –, Munis,bishop,of Forgnaide, principal episcopal church of the Ulaid, Munnu (alias Finten mac Telcháin) site of, (Map ) patron saint of Taghmon, Tírechán’s Patrick avoids, and his manaig, Newgrange, , as foster-father, – Níall Caille (Níall mac Áeda),king of Tara, Munster,province of, – and the Vikings, – abandoned Celtic Easter, victor in the battle of Leth Cam, and the Uí Néill in the sixth century, – Níall Frossach,king of Tara,, , claimed overlordship over Leinster, Níall mac Conaill Graint, – king of, – Níall Noígíallach,‘Níall of the Nine major monasteries in, Hostages’,ancestor of the Uí Néill, northern frontier of,a zone of great date of, churches, – Nicetius,bishop of Lyons, origin-legends of, Nicetius,bishop of Triers Murchad mac Brain,king of Leinster wrote letter to Chlodosuintha, made inaugural expedition against Cashel, wrote letter to Justinian I, , Ninian (Nynias),saint of Whithorn,and the Murchad mac Díarmata (Murchad Midi),as southern Picts, – ‘king of the Uí Néill’, , nobles, – Murchad mac Maíle Dúin,king of Cenél were the intended audience of most early nÉogain, , Irish literature, Múscraige (Munster people scattered among Nóendruim, see Nendrum different kingdoms), (Map ), Noínden Ulad,saga, and rights of wreck, – Northumbria,expansionism of, have the right to provide an ollam in Cashel, visited by Ségéne,abbot of Iona, see also Æthelfrith,Bernicia,Deira,Edwin, high rank of their king, – Oswald,Oswiu Múscraige mBreoguin, , (Map ) Northumbrian Church divisions in,after the Synod of Whitby,– Naas (Nás),royal seat,, (Map ) Synod of Whitby gives Oswiu control over, Nad Froích,ancestor of the ‘inner circle’ within the Éoganachta, – Notulae,in the Book of Armagh,– Nainnid mac Duach, Núadu,abbot of Armagh, , names of kindreds, and the promulgation of the Law of Patrick names of persons in Irish, – in Connaught,
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oblaire,grade of poet, Man, ócaire,‘young freeman’,rank of commoner, Osraige (Ossory), (Map ), – , , and a possible alliance between the Uí Néill ‘O’Donoghue Lives’, and the Éoganachta, – óenach (‘fair’,‘assembly’), –, , , , connected with Corcu Loígde, , – in Frithf˙olad Muman, –, – and cáin, –, – in alienated to Leth Cuinn by the king and the company of a king, of Munster, , and the maintenance of roads, Osric,king of Deira, and the rígdál, – Oswald,king of the Northumbrians,– disturbance at, –, – body translated to Bardney, of Colmán, converted in exile,probably in Dál Ríata, see also Tailtiu Óengus,(bishop) of the Ulstermen, Oswine,king of Deira, – Óengus mac Amolngada, –, Oswiu,king of the Northumbrians Óengus mac Colmáin,king of the Uí Néill, and the letter of Pope Vitalian, – – campaigned against the Picts, possible king of Tara, – converted in exile,probably in Dál Ríata, Óengus mac Nad Froích ancestor of Éoganacht Chaisil and made Dál Ríata pay tribute, Éoganacht Glendamnach, – possible intentions for Iona, Óengus mac Tipraiti, n. Óengus the Culdee (Óengus mac Óengobann) Pachomius,monastic founder, on oppressive kings, pagan,if naturally good, – on Tara, – pagan past,a problem for the missionary, Óentrab (Áentrab,Antrim Town),monastery – of, (Map ) pagans,in the Bishops’ Synod, ogam alphabet, , – Palladius, , and Latin grammarians, and Patrician hagiography, –, origin of, chronological relationship with Patrick, ogam inscriptions,distribution of, – Olcán,bishop and patron saint of Armoy,, concerned with Pelagianism, , – location of his mission in Leinster, – Olcán,priest of Cell Óchtair Múaide, mission recalled by Columbanus, , , Ólchobor mac Cináeda,king of Munster,vic- torious against Vikings, paschal cycle of, ollam filed,‘chief poet’, , , persuades Pope Celestine to commission ollam mórchathrach,‘head of a great monastery’, Germanus of Auxerre, , sent to Ireland by Pope Celestine, , – ollamnas Caisil,‘office of chief poet at Cashel’, seventh-century texts on, – claimed by Múscraige, , significance of his mission as perceived in Ondemmone (also Móin Daire Lothair),battle the s and s, – of, – pallium, –, , – Óno,heirs of,and the church of Imblech parentela, – nÓnonn, parentelic, described by Tírechán as ‘the Kindred of Paris, Dogshit’, parochia open field, , contrasted with civitas, Orléans, in the Bishops’ Synod, as recognised place for national church in Britain, – councils, in Frankish Gaul, , Council of (),summoned by Childebert parting (scarad), , I to respond to the condemnation of the paruchia Three Chapters, conceived as a federation of daughter- Orosius,fifth-century historian,on the Isle of monasteries,
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contrasted with the familia, said to have made circuit of northern half of Patrick, of Ireland, spelling of parochia, said to have triumphed over druids, , , see also parochia , paschal controversy supposed artificial kindred of, and authority in the Church, – trial of, – and definition of a day and a month, – see also,Armagh,Muirchú,Tírechán and exegesis, – patronus, see érlam and paschal cycles, – patronymics and churchmen, – and Pelagian heresy, Peada,king of the Middle Angles, and Synod of Mâcon, – Pehthelm,bishop of Whithorn,likely source and synods, – for Bede on Ninian, four phases in, – Pelagians in Britain, , – importance of, , – Pelagius, , in England, – and the salvation of people before Christ, issues in, –, – – role of Columbanus in, – Penda,king of Mercia, , , – see also Easter peregrinatio, , pastoral care peregrinus,renounces kindred and homeland, the range of those who benefited, – paternity,natural and presumed,– Péronne, n., patriarchs,very rare in the West, see also Fursa Patrick,saint, , , personal identity and names, – and annals, –, personality,perception of, – and conversion of slaves, , Pictish sculpture, –, – and kings, – Picts, – and law, – allies of the Scotti in the s, and monasticism, – and Cáin Adomnáin, , and Palladius, , –, and Ninian (Nynias), –, – and rusticity of style, – ‘apostate’, biblical style of, – as ‘the peoples of the Tay’, Bréifnech of, campaigns of Oswiu and Ecgfrith against, career of, – chronological position of, – converted by Columba, – community (familia/muinter) of, divided between northern and southern Confessio of, , – Picts, – described by Cummian as papa noster, , place-name evidence for their conversion, – described in the Book of the Angel as ‘apos- pilgrimage, see peregrinatio tolic teacher’ and ‘supreme pontiff ’, plague, – – plebs development of hagiography of, – equivalent to Irish túath, education of, – in the Bishops’ Synod, – evidence of his writings on the Ireland of Poem on the Airgíalla,on Tailtiu and its ruler, his day, – family of, poets, – had an eschatological perception of his own and ‘the law of the face’, mission, – have a circuit, later Latin Lives of, not tied to a túath, Law of, , – see also filid Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus of, , , Poitiers,monastic life at, shrine of St Hilary at, , on kings and judges, – pollen data,and the Iron Age, paruchia of, polygyny, remembered as the apostle of the Irish, – Posidonius,
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praepositi, , scene of the killing of Díarmait mac prayers for the dead, Cerbaill, , , ‘primitive churches’, Ráith Bó (Raphoe), (Map ) prímríg,‘chief kings’, Ráith Cholpthai (Raholp), (Map ) princeps (airchinnech) Ráith Chungai (Racoon), (Map ) derived high status from the rank of his claimed by communities of Columba and of church, Ardstraw, in the Bishops’ Synod, – Ráith Imgáin,royal fort of Uí· ailgiF and seat overlaps with abbot, of kingship, (Map ), principatus, Ráith Inbir, , (Map ) privacy, – Ráith Mór Maige Line,royal seat of Mag Procopius,on the blinding of a Sassanian Line, (Map ), , prince, rape, prophecy and miracles of power, – Rathen (Rahan),monastery of, (Map ), , Prosper of Aquitaine, career of, , – rechtaire, Chronicle of, , , rechtge,in Críth Gablach, – Contra Collatorem of, –, , Rechrann (Rathlin Island), (Map ) De Uocatione Omnium Gentium of, –, Rechru (Rechrann,Lambay Island),island – monastery of, protector,applied to Voteporix, relics,associated with acáin , – title used in Later Roman Empire, corporeal,Irish slow to show an interest in, province (cóiced), – – major and lesser, – non-corporeal relics venerated by the Irish, Ptolemy,ancient geographer,account of Ireland, , , of Peter,Paul,Lawrence and Stephen at public domain, – Armagh, , ; share of,given to public versus private business, Armoy, , , ; share of,given to Baislec, –, Quartodecimans, , , –, taken on circuit, –, quaternions, – see also shrines quinions, Remigius,bishop of Reims, , representation of dead father by son or sons, Radegund,saint,Frankish queen, – Rado, requisition,compulsory (errach), – Rahan, see Rathen resharing of inherited land, – Rahugh, see Ráith Áeda maic Bricc retinue of a lord, – ráith, – rhetor, see also ringfort rhetoric,education in, –, – Ráith Áeda maic Bricc (Rahugh), (Map ), Rhydderch Hael,king of Dumbarton and of , the Britons of Strathclyde, Ráith Ailinne (Ráith Alinne,Dún Ailinne, a friend of Columba, Knockaulin,Co. Kildare), –, rí,‘king’ (Map ) rí buiden, – occupied by Donnchad mac Domnaill, , rí cóicid, rí ruirech, – Ráith Airthir (Oristown,Co. Meath), (Map rí túaithe, – ), see also king seat of kingship of Fir Chúl (Síl nDlúthaig), Ríagail Phátraic (the Rule of Patrick), n. , on bishops, – seat of kingship of Síl nÁeda Sláne, , , rígdál,‘royal meeting’,‘meeting of kings’, – where Donnchad mac Domnaill ‘dishon- rígdamnae,‘royal material’, oured the Staff of Jesus’, , ringfort (les, ráith, dún), –, Ráith Becc, (Map ), , in Co. Down,
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secnap,‘second abbot,prior’, Skye,Isle of, ‘The Second Battle of Mag Tuired’,mytho- Slán,holy well, logical tale, Sláne (Slane),monastery of, (Map ) Secundinus (Sechnall),bishop, –, , , had bishops and sapientes, relationship to Armagh, – Ségéne,fifth abbot of Iona Hill of, collected oral traditions about Columba, slave, –, , , founded Rechru (Lambay Island), from overseas more valuable, sent mission to Northumbria, non-combatant, visited Northumbria, , slavery, –, Seimne (Island Magee), (Map ) slave-trade,between Roman Empire and Senach Rón,monk of St Cainnech Ireland, – Senán,patron saint of Inis Scathaig (Scattery in the Viking period, Island), slavewomen, – Senán,patron saint of Lathrach Briúin see also cumal (Laraghbryan,Co. Kildare), , , Sleaty (Sletty,Sléibte),monastery in Co. Senchas Már,Introduction to, , Carlow, , (Map ), – senchléithe, –, Slébéne,abbot of Iona,promulgates Law of Senchue (Shancough),church of,, (Map ) Columba, sexual division of labour, – Slemain of Mide,battle of,, – Shannon,river,as boundary between Uí Néill Slíab Cúa,battle of,, and Connachta, Slíab Mis (Slemish,Co. Antrim), peace on, Slige nAssail, Shelmaliure Commons, sochraite, ships and Irish domination of the Irish Sea, sóerthúath,‘free people’,and cáin, , Soissons,shrine of St Medard at,– shrines and saints’ cults, – Solignac,monastery of, no shrine of Columba in Adomnán’s time, sons,undutiful,can be ‘proclaimed’, ‘soul-friend’ (anmcharae), síd,‘fairy mound’, South Munster, see Dessmumu,Éoganacht Sigeberht,king of East Saxons,converted, Raithlind Sigibert I,king of the Franks Southern Déis, see Déiss Deiscirt and Radegund, Springmount Bog tablets, , Columbanus’ arrival in Francia falsely status ascribed to his reign by Jonas, close to honour, Síl nÁeda Sláne (branch of Uí Néill,rulers of ecclesiastical, Brega), – hierarchies of, – decline in the power of, – incommensurable, – favoured by Baile Chuinn, –, –, inheritance of, – –, language of, favoured by Tírechán, of churches, genealogy of, – of institutions, see also Síl nDlúthaig,Uí Chernaig,Uí of the young, Chonaing ways to sustain, Síl nDaimíni (branch of Uí Chremthainn and Stephen,Life of Wilfrid of Airgíalla), (Map ) on Britons, Síl nDlúthaig (rulers of Fir Chúl / Cúla Breg), on dedication of the church of Ripon, , , – Síl Fergusa Cáecháin,kindred in possession of on Picts, – Cell Scíre, – on Quartodecimans, excluded from kingship, ‘Story of the Finding of Cashel’, relationship to Uí Néill, Strathcarron,battle of (AD ), Síl Máeluidir,a branch of Uí Chennselaig, Súanach,descendant of,promulgates cáin, Sinell (Sinilis),teacher of Columbanus, subdeochain,‘subdeacon’, –, suí, , ,
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suí litre, , Tallaght,monastery of, –, (Map ) Suibne mac Colmáin Móir community of,prevents the holding of the killed by Áed Sláne and avenged by his son óenach of Tailtiu, , Conall, – taman,grade of poet, regarded by some as king of Tara, Tamnach,church of, (Map ), , , Suibne Menn mac Fíachnai,king of Tara, – –, Tara (Temair), (Map ), , , Suibne moccu F·ir Thrí (Urthri),sixth abbot of contrasted with Armagh, Iona, Feast of, Sulpicius Severus,source of the ‘Celtic’ king-lists of, –, – –year paschal cycle, – kingship of, ‘supreme noble bishop’, and rights of wreck in Munster, – suretyship, – claimed by kings who were not of the Uí Sutton Hoo, Néill, –, – Syagrius,bishop of Autun,received the D. A. Binchy’s views on, pallium from Gregory the Great, in Bretha Nemed Toísech, synod in the laws, – and óenach, – J. V.Kelleher’s views on, and paschal controversy, succession to, – geographical scope of, – variable power of, – members included bishops,abbots of not regularly inhabited by kings of Tara, leading churches, scribae and sapientes, portrayed by Muirchú as the Babylon of – pagan Ireland, , – role of, synods of Uí Néill and Leinstermen at, , Synod of Chalon-sur-Saône, , , Synod of Mâcon, –, Tech mBaíthín (Tibohine), (Map ) and the Rule of St Benedict, Tech Munnu,Taghmon,Co. Wexford, , may have induced Luxeuil to frame the (Map ) story of Columbanus refusing to bless the Taughmon,Co. Westmeath, sons of Theuderic II, see also Munnu probable occasion when Luxeuil abandoned tecosc,‘advice’,genre of literature, – the Celtic Easter, – Tecosca Cormaic,‘The Instructions of Cormac’, Synod of Mag Léne, Synod of Tailtiu, , –, tellach,entry by claimant onto land claimed,as Synod of Uí Néill, model for inauguration, Synod of Whitby, , , , , , Terryglas (Tír dá Glas),monastery,rígdál at, , (Map ), Tacitus, Tethbae, , Tadg mac Céin,eponymous ancestor of the bishop of, Cíannachta, contrasted with Connachta, and the Battle of Crinna, , Northern Tethbae (around Granard,Co. Taghmon, see Tech Munnu Longford), (Map ), , ; part of Tailtiu (Teltown), (Map ), , Patrick’s kinship network, and Coirpre mac Néill, , – Southern Tethbae (around Ardagh,Co. battle of, –, Longford), (Map ), , ; Brigitine lord of, connections of, rout of Cathal by Domnall in, ‘the two Tethbai’, site of church, theft, site of royal assemblies, –, , , Theodore,archbishop of Britain, –, –, and the Letter of Pope Vitalian, – site of synod, , , –, authority of,as seen by Stephen’s Life of situation of, Wilfrid, Táin Bó Cúailnge (‘The Cattle-Raid of Cooley’), date when he became archbishop, – – dedicated the church of Lindisfarne to St taking of arms as a rite of passage, Peter,
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Theodore,archbishop of Britain,( cont.) togher (tochar,road across bogland), had Irish pupils, Toledo,bishops of, , implications of Roman judgement for, Torbach,heir of Patrick,Book of Armagh role in the first expulsion of Wilfrid, – written for, stance on the paschal question, , Tours, – Theodosius,father of the Emperor shrine of St Martin at, , Theodosius, trade between Roman Empire and Ireland, Theudebert II,king of the Austrasian Franks, – terms of trade, – attacked Theuderic II in , Trallwng,Brycheiniog,bilingual inscription defeated and killed by Theuderic II in , from, transhumance, granted Bregenz to Columbanus, , translation of relics,in England, received Columbanus, trebar,‘prudent’,‘good farmer’, Theudelinda,Lombard queen Trecastle,Brycheiniog,bilingual inscription belonged to Frankish noble family,the from, Agilolfings, Treticus,bishop of Lyons,presides at Synod of supported the Aquileian schism, Mâcon, , with Agilulf granted Bobbio to Trevet (Treóit),monastery of, (Map ) Columbanus, associated with Uí Chernaig, Theuderic II,king of Burgundy,– episcopal and with scribae, probable support for Columbanus, – tríath, – weakness after Theudebert’s attack in ‘tribe’,for the túath, – may have led to expulsion of ‘tribal polity’, Columbanus, Trim (Áth Truim),principal church of Cenél Three Chapters Lóegairi, (Map ), , Frankish reaction to the condemnation of, had scribae, see also Lommán see also Aquileian schism Tripartite Life of Patrick, –, –, Tigernach mac Fócartai,king of Loch túath, –, –, – nGabor,victorious against Vikings,– and ecclesiastical organisation, –, Tilbury,Cedd’s church, (Map ), and high church offices, Tipraite mac Taidg,king of the Connachta, as the public domain, – promulgates the Law of Patrick, , comparison between the king and the – bishop of, Tír nAmolngada (Tirawley), –, contrasted as ‘the laity’ with the Church, Tír Cell (Land of Churches), , Tír Conaill, Túatha Dé Danann (earlier Túath Dé), , Tírechán,bishop Túathal Máelgarb,king of Tara,, account of St Patrick, , , –, victor over Cíannacht Breg in the battle of and Fíns˙nechtae Fledach, – Lúachair, date of his Collectanea, Tuda,perhaps bishop of York, descended from Conall mac Éndai maic Tuilén, see Dulane Amolngada, Latin style of, Úarán Garad (Oran),well of,– on Connachta and the king of Tara, see also Brí Garad on ‘free churches’, – Uí Ailella,Connaught dynasty, (Map ), on monks and nuns, – –, , , on status of churches, Uí Amolngada (Uí Amolngid),royal dynasty purpose in writing, – of NW Connaught, –, , (Map ), structure of his Collectanea, , –, – treats southern Uí Néill as the Uí Néill, ‘old kindreds’ among,and the making of use of the term genus, kings, Tlachtga (Hill of Ward), (Map ), – Uí Bairrche,Leinster dynasty,, , Togail Bruidne Da Derga,Old Irish saga,, (Map ),
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and Columba’s mother, and the conquest of Mide, – early members of,said to have ruled Tara, includes Túath Dá Maige, – Uí F·íachrach,Ailill Molt and Nath Í belonged Uí Bairrche Tíre,and Sleaty, to, – Uí Briúin,group of Connaught dynasties, declined in the eighth century, – – Uí F·íachrach Aidne,Connaught dynasty, Uí Briúin Aí, (Map ), – (Map ), – Uí Briúin Seólai, (Map ), Uí F·íachrach Arda Sratha,dynasty of the Uí Briúin in Thúaiscirt,dynasty of the Airgíalla, (Map ) Airgíalla, (Map ) Uí F·íachrach Múaide,Connaught dynasty, Uí Chathbad,branch of the Éoganachta close (Map ), –, to Cullen, Uí F·íachrach Muirsce,Connaught dynasty, Uí Chennselaig,group of dynasties in central (Map ), – and southern Leinster, , (Map ), Uí F·idgente,Munster dynasty and kingdom, – n., , (Map ) genealogy, excluded by Frithf˙olad Muman, –, – see also Síl Máeluidir Uí Garrchon,Leinster dynasty,–, Uí Chernaig,branch of Síl nÁeda Sláne,, (Map ) , –, – kings of,described as kings of the Fortúatha forced to give hostages, Laigen, Uí Chóelbad,ruling dynasty of Mag Line, Uí Líatháin,royal dynasty of south-east Co. –, –, , Cork, (Map ) see also Mag Line,Ráith Becc,Ráith Mór and the foundation of Cloyne, Uí Chonaing,branch of Síl nÁeda Sláne,, branch of,settled in Britain, – in Frithf˙olad Muman, adopt Knowth as a seat of kingship, Uí Maccu Úais (Uí Maccuais,Uí Macc Cuais, take lands of Cíannacht Breg, – Uí Moccu Úais), –, Uí Chremthainn,pair of dynasties of the Uí Maccu Úais Breg, (Map ), , Airgíalla, (Map ), , –, Uí Maccu Úais Midi, (Map ), defeated at the battle of Leth Cam, Uí Maic Caírthinn,dynasty of the Airgíalla, see also Síl nDaimíni,Uí Nad Slúaig, Fernmag,Clochar Macc nDaimíni,Loch Uí Máil,Leinster dynasty,, (Map ), , nÚaithne Uí Chúlduib,kindred of the Fothairt,settled genealogy, at Kildare, Uí Maini,Connaught dynasty,, (Map ) Uí Dega,Leinster dynasty, (Map ), – Uí Meic Caille (Imokilly,Co. Cork),branch of Uí Dercu Chéin,of the Cruithni, (Map ), Uí Líatháin, Uí Méith,dynasty of the Airgíalla, (Map ), Uí Díchon,ecclesiastical kindred of Saul,and (Map ) perhaps later of Downpatrick, – Uí Muiredaig,one of three royal branches of Uí Dúnlainge,Leinster dynasty,, , , Uí Dúnlainge, , (Map ) (Map ), Uí Nad Slúaig,dynasty of the Airgíalla, genealogy, (Map ), n. location of their oldest lands, see also Uí Chremthainn supposed early kings of Leinster from, Uí Néill, –, , – – and the Connachta, –, , supposed references to,in fifth-century and the legend of Cormac mac Airt, , annals, – Uí Echach Arda,an Ulster dynasty, (Map ) date of the name, Uí Echach Maige Cobo,ruling dynasty of decay of the political order established by, Mag Cobo (W. Co. Down), , , – see also Mag Cobo early allies of, – Uí Enechglais, (Map ), – feuds among, – Uí F·ailgi (dynasty of NW Leinster), (Map identified by Tírechán with the southern Uí ) Néill, ,
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Uí Néill,(cont.) first appearance of, in hagiography, – in the s and s, – kingdoms of the Southern Uí Néill, – long-term effects of, – kings of,as deputy kings of the Southern Uí stages in the development of their attacks, Néill, –, – – of Brega, violence,attitudes to, – the subject of Book I of Tírechán’s Virgno,fourth abbot of Iona,– Collectanea, Vitalian,pope Uí S·egáin of Fir Rois, and the authority of Theodore, , , Uí Théig,branch of Uí Máil, (Map ), – Uí Thuirtri,a dynasty of the Airgíalla, and ‘islands’, (Map ), (Map ), saw the northern Irish and the Britons as take territory from Dál nAraidi, heretics and schismatics, – Uisnech, (Map ), , –, Voclut,Wood of, see Fochloth Ulaid (Ulstermen), (Map ), Voteporix (Vortiporius),tyrant of the and Congal Cáech, , – Demetae, – bishop of, Cruithni claim to be ‘the true Ulaid’, Waldebert,abbot of Luxeuil, , , defeated at the battle of Leth Cam, Waldelenus,Burgundian nobleman,supporter in Ptolemy, , of Columbanus, , king-list, warband (fían), may have been leaders of the Atacotti, – warfare,pattern of, – Ulfila,bishop of the Goths, Warnachar,mayor of the Burgundian palace, Ulster,province of, – lay supporter of Agrestius, , , larger Ulster of the fifth century, – wax tablets,from Springmount Bog, no provincial cáin atttested for, , , weapons and armour, Ultán moccu Chonchobair,bishop of Dál may be given by lords to clients, Conchobair,of Ardbraccan, –, Wearmouth-Jarrow,joint-monastery of, Ultán the scribe, (Map ) uncial script, –, – and Roman influence in Insular art, – Uraicecht Becc,legal tract on status,, – see also Bede,Ceolfrith Uraicecht na Ríar,legal tract on the status of wells,holy, – poets, , – West Munster, see Éoganacht Locha Léin, urban characteristics of major monasteries, Íarmumu – West Munster Synod, and the role of kings of Tara and Cashel in Valentinian I,Roman emperor, inaugurating client kings, – values,of a commoner, West Saxons, Venantius Fortunatus, , – Whitby,monastery of, (Map ), Venerandus,abbot of Alta Ripa,– Whitby,Synod of, , , , , Verdun, Whithorn,church of St Ninian,, (Map vernacular literature, ) Verturiones,constituent people among the Wilfrid,saint Pictish federation, alienated the monks of Lindisfarne in see also Fortriu –, , Victorius of Aquitaine,paschal computus of, and Archbishop Theodore, – – and church architecture, adopted by the Frankish Church at the and the paschal controversy, – council of Orléans (AD ), – and the Rule of St Benedict, known to Columbanus, and uncial script, , Vigilius,pope,and the Three Chapters,– appealed to Rome, as seen by the Aquileians, as champion of all things Roman, , Vikings as metropolitan bishop of York, – divided into Dark Heathens and White (or at Lyons and Rome, Fair) Foreigners, attempted settlement with Aldfrith,
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attitude of Bede to, , Willibrord his monk at Ripon, Ceolfrith,abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow,his see also Hexham,Ripon,Stephen,Life of pupil, Wilfrid characteristics of his party, Willibrord,archbishop of Utrecht, claimed episcopal authority throughout Winioc,father of Bobolenus,abbot of Bobbio, northern Britain and northern Ireland, –, , – Winnoch the Breton, claimed to have got rid of ‘the poisonous ‘woman who cuts’, weeds planted by the Irish’, women first expulsion of, –, as non-combatants, his gospel-book, , protected by ‘the Law of the Innocents’ Irish contacts of, (Cáin Adomnáin), may have wanted York to replace Iona, type of,admired by men, Wulfolaic,pillar-saint of Carignan, patronised by Alhfrith,sub-king of Deira, York, (Map ), – huge size of Wilfrid’s diocese of, – returned from exile after Aldfrith’s death, perceived as a metropolitan see, – see also Bosa,Chad,Tuda,Wilfrid
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