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INDEX. 



Church, quadrangular, of moist earth, 125. 

 of smooth timber, built by S. Mo- 



nenna, 125. 

 of Kildare, erroneously supposed to 



have been a wooden structure, 199- 

 of the two Sinchells at Glendalough, 



432, 433 See Glendalough. 



CHURCHES, ancient Irish, built of stone and 

 lime cement, 136, et seq.; characteristic fea- 

 tures of the existing remains of, 160, et seq. 



features, &c., of primitive churches 



examined, 160-195. 



great antiquity of the character of, 



160. 

 almost invariably of small size, 160. 



in their general form preserve very 



nearly that of the Eoman Basilica, 161. 



walls of, always perpendicular, and 



generally formed of very large polygonal 

 stones, 161. 

 none of the ancient Irish, seem to 



have been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, 

 or any of the foreign saints, previously to 

 the twelfth century, 172. 



style of masonry in the primitive 



Irish, 186-189. 

 examples of general appearance of 



the primitive Irish, when of inferior size, 

 187, 188. 



. previously to the 12th century, the 



Irish never appear to have named churches 

 after any but their own saints, who were in 

 most instances the original founders, 193. 

 observations on the unadorned sim- 

 plicity and contracted dimensions of the 

 earliest Irish, 190-195. 



model of primitive, introduced by 



St. Patrick into Ireland, 192. 

 dimensions of the more important, 



prescribed by St. Patrick, 192. 

 size of the first Christian, erected 



in Britain, 194, 195. 



Churches, classified with other ecclesiastical 

 buildings, 159 ; Irish, compared with 

 Saxon churches, 437. 



earliest Christian on the Continent, 



character of, 191. 



oldest, still remaining in Greece, 



character of, 191. 

 the early cathedral and abbey, 



always built of stone, 142-158 ; length 

 of, 194. 

 said to have been placed by the early 



Christian clergy on the site of the Druid 

 fanes, 72. 

 stone, the first builders of, in Ire- 



land, 141. 

 use of stone in the building of, 



known to the ancient Irish. See Stone, 

 and Daimhliags. 

 that those at Armagh were stone 



buildings, with lime cement, in the ninth 

 century, quite certain, 153-155. 

 . that there is every reason to believe 



that the stone churches, existing at Armagh 

 in the ninth century, were the very churches 

 erected in St. Patrick's time, or shortly after, 

 shewn, 155-158. 

 conclusion that much of the orna- 



mental ecclesiastical architecture remain- 

 ing in Ireland, is of an age anterior to the 

 Norman Conquest of England, and, probably, 

 in some instances, even to the Danish irrup- 

 tions in Ireland, 317. 

 abbey and cathedral, throughout 



Ireland, generally, if not always, of stone, 158. 

 Etruscan character of the masonry 



found in many of the, adverted to, 411. 

 in which ornament has been used, 



features of, treated of, 196, et seq. 



of wattles, 123. 



of oak timber and wattles, 124. 



at Lindisfarne built of sawn wood, 



covered with reeds, 125. 



