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INDEX. 



the sepulchral monuments of, and names of 



persons interred at, 104-107. 

 Relecs, or church-yards, many consecrated by 



Malachy O'Morgair, 154, 155. 

 Relics of saints, 201. 

 Relics, travelling See Minister. 

 " Researches among the Round Towers," 80 



See South Munster Society of Antiquaries. 

 Resti tutus, the Lombard, wife of, 166. 

 no where stated that he was ever in 



Ireland, 167. See Lombard. 

 Richardson, Dean of Belturbet, originator of 



theory that the Towers were erected for the 



use of anchorites, 109- 

 his Folly of Pilgrimages in Ireland 



referred to and quoted, 118. 

 Rickman, Mr., his opinions, 187. 

 Rieguil Proinntige Patric, the Rule of St. 



Patrick's Refectory, referred to, 425. 

 Rigair, SS. Saxones i. e. Anglos de, 137. 

 Righ, or Righ mna Nuadat, the Righ of the 



wife of Nuada, an ancient name of the river 



Boyne, 213. 

 Rings of gold and silver used for money by the 



ancient Irish, 212, 213. 



Riochus, S., socios S. Riochi transmarinos, 137. 

 Roboreti Campus See Durrow. 

 Roman architecture, debased, 230, 237. 

 churches, earliest, doorways of, 167, 



168. 



ecclesiastics in Ireland, 136, 137. 



manner, " more Romano," doorways of 



churches erected after the, 176-178; expla- 

 nation of term, 176. 

 Romanesque architecture, 237. 

 Romans, houses of the, characteristics of, 131. 

 monumental stone of, inscribed " un 



Romcmi," on the Great Island of Aran, 138. 



or ecclesiastics in Ireland, 191. 



Ronan, St., son of Berach, relics and shrine of, 



202. 

 Roofs, stone, of churches, 240, 253. 



Roofs, materials, mode, and style of construc- 

 tion, of the roofs of the primitive Irish 

 churches, 185, 186; churches with roofs of 

 stone, 185, 188, 189; churches with roofs 

 of wood, covered with reeds, straw, and oak 

 shingles, 185, 186. 



Rosa Failge, the son of Cathair More, spoken 

 of by Miss Beaufort, 38. 



Author's refutation of assertion that 



he built the Tower of Rosenallis, 41, 42. 



Ros-analluis, Eccl., 43. 



Roscrea Tower, examined at the request of the 

 South Munster Antiquaries, 89- 



sculptures on one of the upper aper- 

 tures of, 322. 



doorway of, described, 366, 367, 404. 



Round Tower or cloictheach of, roof of 



struck off, 390. 



large aperture over doorway of, 412, 



413. 



Ros-darbreach, the ancient name of Balla, 449. 

 Rosenallis, Tower of, noticed by Miss Beaufort, 



38. 

 refutation of assertion that it was 



built by Rosa Failgee, the son of Cathair 



More, in the second century, 41, 42. 

 church of, dedicated to St. Bridget, 



43. 

 Rosfinnglass, in Hyriegain, meaning of name, 



43. 



Ros na Righ, burial of Cormac at, 98-100. 

 Rossachi, three daughters and seven brothers 



of, interred at Rathcroghan, 104. 

 Rosscarbery, Round Tower of, compared with 



Brunless Castle, in Brecknockshire, 364, 365, 



395. 



ROUND TOWERS, difficulties in the way of for- 

 mer investigators of their origin and uses 



stated, 3, 4. 

 condition prescribed by the Royal 



Irish Academy, in the investigation of the 



origin and uses of, 4. 



