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INDEX. 



s. 



Saboeism, or star- worship, 71. 



Sabhall, church of. See Daimhliag an t-Sabh- 



aill. 



Sab ildanach, 382, 383. 

 Sacristy, in ancient Irish churches, 1 62. 

 Saingel, now Singland, near Limerick, 138. 

 St. Bridget, church of, at Armagh, 150. See 



Regies Brighde. 

 St. Doulagh's church, near Dublin, roof of, 



185. 



St. Gall, original monastery of, 420. 

 St. Manchanus [qui iacet] inLethmor, 137. 



St. Mullin's See Tigh Moling. 



Saliduic, SS. Gallos de, 137. 



Gauls or Franks of, 165. 



Salvator, a name inscribed by St. Patrick on 



pillar-stone, 134, 135. 

 Sanctuary. See Chancel. 

 Sandstone, red, churches built with, 168. 

 Sardinia, " an island once colonized from Ibe- 

 ria and Phoenicia," 72. 



, Nuraghes of. See Nuraghes. 



Sari, fire temples at, 71. 



Sashes, no provision for the reception of, in 



the windows of ancient Irish churches, 182. 

 Saviour, St., Priory of, church of the monas- 

 tery at Glendalough, so called by Archdall, 



&c., 253 See Glendalough. 

 Saxon Chronicle referred to, 324. 

 Saxon churches in England, baluster columns 



of, 237 See Churches. 



Saxon doorways, doorways of Irish churches 



resembling, 176-178. 

 Saxon ecclesiastics in Ireland, 136, 137. 

 Saxon pennies found near Eahen, 353. 

 Saxons, indications that they were established 



in the neighbourhood of Eahen, at an early 



period, 353. 



ancient churches of, 126, 194. 



intercourse of the ancient Irish with, 



212. 



Saxons, Ireland infested by, at a very early 

 period, 352. 



of Mayo, 143. 



Scaliger, Joseph, 48. 



Scandinavians, Odin the legislator of, 69- 



Scanlan Mac Eoghan, a poet, 105, 106. 



Scattery island, anchorite habitations stated 

 by Windele to exist on, 73. 



Schoepflin, M., Histoire de 1' Academic, &c., 

 quoted, 210, 211, 228, 229. 



Scotic race, ancient, peculiar characteristic of, 

 in building houses and churches, 124, 125; 

 houses and churches of wood erected by, 126. 



character of the sepulchral monu- 

 ments of the pagan kings of, 104-108. 



characteristics of, as distinguished 



from the Tuatha De Dananns, 384. 

 Rath- builders, 126. 



Scots, British, Pinkerton's account of the an- 

 cient monuments of, 123. 



Scott, Sir Walter, his observations on the seven 

 churches at Glendalough, 170; his admiration 

 of the doorway of Our Lady's Church at, ib. 



opinions of, quoted from his Review 



of Ritson's Annals, 374. 



Screpall, sigal or siclus, a coin in use among 

 the ancient Irish, treated of, weight and va- 

 lue shown, &c., 214-218, 220, 221 ; sigal, a 

 term synonymous with screpall, 215, 216. 



Serin Colaim Cille, 98, 100. 



Sculpture, art of, known to the Irish in the 

 tenth century, 269- 



Scythians, 26. 



Seanchus beag, a tract of Brehon laws, quoted, 

 379, 380. 



Seanchus na Relec, or history of the cemeteries, 

 in the Leabhar na h-Uidhre, quoted, with 

 translations, 98-101, 104, 105, 106. 



Sechnall, or Secundinus, one of the seven sons 

 of the Lombard, and nephew of St. Pa- 

 trick, 166. 



Sechnasach, inscribed tombstone of, at Clon- 

 macnoise, 339. 



