INDEX. 



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Penitentiaries, Irish name of, 119, 120. 



Pennant, Mr., 72. 



Pennies, or deniers of the middle ages, Saxon 



and others, 225. 



old English, 225. 



the real pennies of Ireland, 225. 



Penning, or pinginn, seems of Teutonic origin, 



225 See Pinginn. 

 Saxon and Irish, difference between, 



225. 

 or penny of the middle ages. See 



Penny. 

 Penny, the Irish word screpall, the designation 



of the denarius, denier, penning, or penny, 



current in Europe in the middle ages, 216. 

 or penning, a coin among the Saxons, 



221, 222. 



origin of the name penning!, 228, 229. 



Persia, Guebre Towers in, 79, 80. 



Persian fire-worshippers, 70. 



Magi or Gaiirs, 33. 



Round Towers attributed to, by 



Vallancey, 23. 



Persians, origin of the Round Towers attri- 

 buted to, 13, 68. 



Peter, abbey church of SS. Paul and Peter 

 at Armagh, 153. See Regies Poil agus 

 Pedair. 



Petit-Radel, Mr. L. C. F., his Notice sur les 

 Nuraghes de la Sardaigne, &c., quoted, 75 , 76. 



Petrus Galesinius, quoted by Harris, 110. 



Petty, Sir William, erroneous statement of, re- 

 specting the state of art, trade, learning, &c., 

 in Ireland, before the English invasion, 1 22. 



Phalli, or Priapeia Templa, theory of the Round 

 Towers having been, ad verted to, 108. 



Phoeni, a tribe of the Pelasgi, according to Val- 

 lancey, 16. 



Phoenician, or Indo-Scythian origin of the 

 Round Towers, theory of, examined and re- 

 futed, 14, 15, 16. 



navigators, 72. , 



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Phoenician, theory of the Phoenician or Eastern 

 origin of the Round Towers stated, 13. 



Phoenicians, 69, 70. 



and Carthaginians, 32. 



Picts, kings of the, stated to have been buried 

 within the Tower of Abernethy, 92, 93. 



Pictures, in the ancient church ofKildare, 196, 

 197. 



Piers, Sir Henry, his description of the door- 

 way of the church of Fore, in his Chorogra- 

 phical Description of the County of West- 

 meath, 174. 



Pilasters, flat rectangular projections or pilas- 

 ters at the angles of ancient Irish churches, 

 188, 189. 



Pilgrimages in Ireland, account of, 117, 118, 

 119. 



Pillar-stone at the grave of Fothadh Airg- 

 theach, 108. 



red, over the grave of Dathi, at Rath- 



croghan, 106, 107. 



Pillar-stones, upright, graves of the founders 

 of ancient oratories marked by, 132, 133; 

 inscriptions on, 133-135; example of Ogham 

 inscription on, 135. 



obeliscal, shewn to be Irish, not 



Danish, 10. 



Pillar-temples, 68, 69. 



Pinginn, explanation of the word, 221 ; seems 

 of Teutonic origin, 225. 



or penning, a coin in use among the 

 ancient Irish treated of, weight and value 

 shewn, &c., 215, 217-222. 



Pinginns, or bracteates, probably of greater an- 

 tiquity in Ireland than the screpalls, 228. 



or pennies, in Ireland, early allusion 



to, 350-353. 



Pinkerton, John, his Essay on Medals, quoted 

 or referred to, 210, 222, 223. 



his account of the ancient monu- 

 ments of the British Scots, from his Inquiry 

 into the History of Scotland, 123. 



