INDEX. 



477 



the fortified enclosure of the house of Conall, 



brother of king Laoghaire, 444. 

 Domhnach Eesen [eccl. vel mon.], 137. 

 Domhnall, son of Donnchadh, about the year 



922, 224. 

 Domhnall, son of Maol na m-bo, king of Lein- 



ster, 283, 284. 

 " Domu de Orcu," a name for the Nuraggis of 



Sardinia, 72. 

 Donaghmore, Co. Meath, anciently called, 



Domhnach mor Muighe Echnach, meaning 



of the name, 408. 

 original church of, ascribed to St. 



Patrick, 408. 



Round Tower of, age of, 406 ; door- 



way of, described, 407. 

 crucifixion carved on the doorway 



of, Windele's remarks on, 73. 

 Donaghpatrick, near Tailteann See Doinh- 



nach mor. 



Donald, an Irish king, coins of, 223. 

 Donald O'Neill, A. D. 956, coins of, 223. 

 Donegal, Martyrology of. See Martyrology. 

 Donnchadh, son of Flann, King of Ireland, 



332. 

 Donnell More O'Brien, erection of the church 



of Killaloe attributed to, 274. 

 Doors, in ancient church of Kildare, 196, 197, 



198, 199, 206. 

 Doorway, situation of, in primitive Irish 



churches, 161 ; description of, 161, 178. 

 ornamented, of the Round Tower of 



Kildare. See Kildare. 

 in the church of Kildare in the 



time of Cogitosus, 196, 197, 198. 



Doorways, examples of, in primitive Irish 

 churches, 162-180. 



of the oldest Greek and Etruscan build- 

 ings, 167. 



of the earliest Roman churches, 167, 



168. 



of Cashels, 447, 448. 



Doorways, examples of semicircularly-arched, 

 176-179. 



. , examples of quadrangular, having the 



weight on the lintel taken off by a semicircu- 

 lar arch, 179, 180, 252. 



angular or triangular-headed, 1 80. 



ornamented, treated of, 206-237, 244, 



245, 272. 



of Round Towers, treated of, 398-410. 



second doorways of, 399, 400, 



410,413. 



Dorban, a poet of Connaught, 105, 106. 



Dorbau, a poet of West Connaught, poem 

 ascribed to, quoted, 104, 105. 



Dormitory, Declan's. See Declan. 



Dorus Urdoim, gateway at Kells so called, 449. 



Dowth. See Dubhad. 



Drebriu, daughter of Eocho Fedhlech, 99, 100. 



Drogheda, sepulchral mound at, 103. 



Drucht, interred at Rathcroghan, 104. 



Druidical festivals, theory of the use of the 

 Round Towers as places from which to pro- 

 claim the druidical festivals, 18, 19- 



Druidism, Babylonia the cradle of, 72. 



Druids, Dr. O'Conor's opinion as to their me- 

 thod of defining the equinoxes and solstices, 

 50. 



fires stated by Irish history to have 



been lighted by, on the tops of mountains 

 and hills, not in towers, 27. 



used to drive the cattle between the 



fires called Belltaine, as an antidote against 

 disease, 39- 



Druids' altars of speculative antiquaries, 102. 



Druim Ceat, council of, 319. 



Druim Dubhain, near Clogher, County of Ty- 

 rone, S. Derbhfraich of, 345. 



Druim Inasclaiun, now Drumiskin, abbot of, 

 425. 



refectory of, 425. 



Druim Saileach, Dorsum Salicis, 157. 



Drumbo, in the County of Down, Round Tower 



