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INDEX. 



Fire of Tlachtga, noticed by Comerford, 40. 

 sacred, stated by Mr. D' Alton to have been 



preserved in the Round Towers, 43; this 



statement refuted, ib. 

 sacred, supposed by Dr. 0' Conor to hav e 



been preserved in the Eound Towers, 49. 

 two columns dedicated to the wind and 



fire at the temple of Tyre, 70. 



. lighted by the Magi at Louth, as stated by 



Windele, from the Life of Mocteus, 73. 



Fires, stated in Irish history to have been 

 lighted by the Druids on the tops of moun- 

 tains and hills, not in towers, 27. 



annual, lighted in Ireland, 29, 30. 



of Baal, supposed to be the Baal-Theine, 



38. 



May-fires of modern times, perhaps a 



modified form of the ancient Belltaine, 39. 

 . called Bell- tinne, custom of driving cattle 



between, as an antidote against disease, 41. 



Fire- temples, theories of the use of the Round 

 Towers as, examined and refuted, 14, 15, 

 23-53, 67-74. 



Persian and Hindoo, supposed simi- 

 larity between, and the Irish Round Towers, 

 30, 68, 69. 



of the Persians, 34. 



or Pyreia, 71. 



Fire-worship, 68, 69. 



Fire-worshippers, Greek and Persian, 70. 



Flahertach Mac Inmuinen, the successor of Cor- 

 mac Mac Cullenan, 309- 



Flahertach O'Neill, historic notices of, 220, 22 1 . 



Flaithcius, a poet of Connaught, 105, 106. 



Flann, i. e. Flann of Bute, 106. 



Flann of the Monastery, poem written by, 1 40 ; 

 quoted from the Book of Lecan, 141, 165, 

 381. 



referred to, 201, 220. 



Flann, the son of Conaing, territory of, plun- 

 dered by the Danes, 103, 104. 



Flann the son of Flann, poem attributed to, in 



the Book of Fenagh, referred to and quoted, 

 444, 445. 



Flann, son of Maoilsechlainn, monarch of Ire- 

 land, cathedral of Clonmacnoise built by, 

 268 ; death of, ib. ; name of, engraved on 

 stone cross at Clonmacnoise, 269> 270. 



Flannan, St., the successor of St. Molua, church 

 ascribed to, 276, 278. 



Flannan's, St., house at Killaloe. See Killaloe. 



Flannchadh, inscribed tombstone of, at Clon- 

 macnoise, 324. 



Flannchadh Ua Ruaidhne, comharba ofCiaran, 

 i. e. Abbot of Clonmacnoise, death of, 324. 



Fleming, his Collectanea Sacra, quoted, 393. 



Florence of Worcester, referred to, 324, 325. 



Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum See Messing- 

 ham. 



Fodhla Feibe, a tract of Brehon Laws, so en- 

 titled, quoted, 216. 



Foirrgea, filiorum Amolngid, i. e. of the sons of 

 Awley, 125. 



Fomorians. See African. 



" Font," the, at Cashel. See Cormac Mac 

 Carthy, tomb of. 



Forann, the bed of the daughter of. See Long 

 ingine Foraind. 



Forbadh, meaning of the Irish word, 389. 



Fore, Co. Westmeath, church of St. Fechin at, 

 173; doorway of, described, 173, 174. 



derthech of, burned, 342. 



St. Fechin's church at, cross over the 



doorway of, noticed, 401. 

 mill of, erected by St. Mochua, 450. 



Foreign ecclesiastics in Ireland, 1 36, et seq, 

 saints, none of the ancient Irish churches 



dedicated to, previously to the 12th century, 



172. 



Fortuatha, regio de, 171. 

 Forts of the Firbolg and Tuatha De Danann 



tribes, character of, 126, 128. 

 Forts, and mounts of Ireland, called Danish by 



Dr. Molyneux, 8. 



