INDEX. 



479 



Earlsbarton, in Northamptonshire, church of, 

 237. 



Earth, moist, church built of, 125. 



Easbog. See Epscop. 



East, the, conformity between many of the 

 Round Towers in, noticed by travellers, and 

 the Irish Kound Towers, acknowledged, 32. 



Eastern anchorites, pillars of, supposed agree- 

 ment between, and the Irish Towers, ex- 

 amined, 109-112. 



East Meon, near Winchester, marble font in 

 cathedral of, 291. 



Eclais, origin and application of the word, 



142, 144, 145, 152. 



Ecclesia, application of, by Irish writers, 1 42, 



143, 144, 146, 150, 152, 156. 

 Ecclesia filii Laithphi, in Bregia, 141. 

 Ecclesiastica Turris, Round Tower of Kildare 



so called by Cambrensis, 206, 207. 

 Ecclesiasticse turres, translated " religious" 



Towers, by Mr. D' Alton, 44, 45. 

 Ecclesiastical Buildings, ancient Irish, general 



characteristics of the, 159, etseq. 

 Ecclesiastical Remains, Irish, antiquity of, 124, 



et seq. 

 Edda, 26. 

 Egbert, chief monarch, pennies of, found near 



Rahen, 353. 

 Egyptian ecclesiastics in Ireland, 136. 



monasteries, 419, 422. 



Egyptios, SS. septe Monachos Aegyptios, qui 



iacet in Disert Vlidh, 137. 

 Ehenach, ancient church of, founded by St. Pa- 

 trick, 179- See Aghannagh. 

 Ele, daughter of Eocho Fedhlech, 99, 100. 

 Elians, the, plundered Clonmacnoise, 270. 

 Elias S., SS. Peregrines Romanes qui comitati 



sunt SS. Eliam, Natalem, &c., 137- 

 Emly, called in Irish, Imleach lubhair, 



comharbas, or successors of St. Ailbhe at, 



309- 

 burned, 426. 



Enda, filius Nielli, 158. 



English, i. e. Saxon, ecclesiastics in Ireland, 



136, 137. 

 English, influx of, into Ireland, in ancient 



times, 200. 

 English, i. e. Anglo-Norman, pennies, old, 



225. 

 Eochaidh Airgthech See Fothaidh Airg- 



theach. 



Eochaidh Balldearg, prince of Thomond, 138. 

 Eochaidh Eolach O'Ceirin, an ancient writer, 



106. 



Eocho Airemh, 99, 100. 

 Eocho Fedlech, 99, 100. 

 Eogan mor, who bore the cognomen of Mogh 



Nuadhat, death of, 27. 

 Eoganacht Ninais, 378. 

 Eoganachts, king of, 309. 

 Epiphanius, referred to, 419, 424. 

 Epscop, origin and meaning of the word, 307- 

 Erdam, or aurdam, applied in the Book of 



Ballymote to the porticoes of the Royal 



Palace of Priam at Troy, 63. 

 Erdam, translated domum altum by Dr. O'Conor, 



and believed by him to be synonymous with 



cloic-teach (campanile), 49, 54 ; true expla- 

 nation of, 54, 55. 



of Kells, 426. 



of St. Kieran, at Clonmacnoise, 435. 



Erdamh, classified with other ecclesiastical 



buildings, 159- 

 treated of, as a class of Irish ecclesias- 



tical buildings, 434-440. 

 meaning of this word, as explained by 



Cormac in his Glossary, 434. 



various spellings of the word, ib. 



derivation of, ib. 



similar ancient compound explained by 



O'Clery, ib. 



difficulty of forming an accurate idea 



of the kind of building designated by the 

 term erdamh, 435, 436, 439. 



