INDEX. 



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Round Towers, use of, as belfries, acknowledged 



by Dr. O'Conor, 360, 361. 

 payment for the erection of, 361, 



362, 363. 



. rule for determining the height of, 



362. 



evidences of the use of, as ecclesias- 

 tical keeps, 364-375. 



compared with the ancient military 



towers or castles of England and Wales, 364, 



365. 



double doors of, 365-368. 



their Irish name " cloictheach," ap- 



plied by Irish writers to a tower of defence, 

 369. 

 the term " castle" applied to, by 



Duald Mac Firbis, 370. 

 evidences from the Irish annals of 



the use of, for the purpose of safety and de- 

 fence, 370-373. 

 opinions of modern distinguished 



writers on the use of, as places of safety and 

 defence, 373-375. 



- arguments in favour of the theory of 



the probable use of, as beacons and watch- 

 towers, 375-377- 

 probable eras of the erection of, ex- 



amined, 377-417. 

 first notice of, in the Irish annals, 



377. 



earliest authentic record of the erec- 

 tion of, 377. 



used as sanctuaries, 378, 379, 401. 



probably in existence in the time of 



St. Patrick, 380, 381. 

 account of the fall of a monk from 



a building identified with one of, 384-386. 



attached to churches, 392. 



belfries, placed on the churches, 392, 



393. 



characteristic examples of the va- 

 rious styles of, 394414. 

 division of, into stories sometimes 



marked externally by set-offs, 397, 398 ; and 

 in one instance by bands or belts, 398 ; cor- 

 nice beneath the roof of Devenish Round 

 Tower, 397, 398. 



Round Towers.doorways of, treated of, 398- 

 410. 



usual position of the doorways of, 



35, 36. 



second doorways of, 399, 400, 410, 



413. 



413. 



upper apertures of, treated of, 410- 



the windows of the, do not always 



face the cardinal points, 35. 



Etruscan character of the masonry 



found in many of the, 411. 

 observations on the recent search for 



interments in the, 414416. 

 Comments on the statements of Sir 



"William Betham, as to the discovery of hu- 

 man bones in that of Timahoe, and as to the 

 uses of the Round Towers, 414-417. 



Rout sula Midir, at Brugh na Boinne, 103. 



Ruaidhri, King of Connaught, 143; year of 

 his death, 144. 



Rubble, interior of walls of ancient Irish 

 churches, filled up with, and grouting, 

 162. 



Ruiden, the son of Lainnen, chief of Ui Drona, 

 337. 



Rule of St. Mochuda, of Rathain, an ancient 

 Irish poem, quoted, 425. 



Rule of St. Patrick's Refectory, referred to by 

 Colgan, 425. 



Rumann, the poet, called the Virgil of Ireland, 

 account of a poem composed by, 350, 351, 

 352 ; goes on a pilgrimage to Rahen, 350, 

 351; death of, 350; burial of, 351, 352; 

 tradition preserved at Rahen concerning, 

 352. 



Ryland, his History of Waterford, noticed by 

 Windele, 72. 



