INDEX. 



459 



Bead ornament, Windcle, 73. 



Bealach forchedail [eccl. vel mon.j, 1 37. 



Bealach Mughna, battle of, 286. 



Bealahamire, near Cork, 80. 



Beallanrannig, in the County of Kerry, 80. 



Bearnan, explanation of the term, 336. 



Beauford, Mr., his opinions as to the origin 

 and use of the Round Towers, 32, 33 ; refu- 

 tation of, 33. 



his reading and translation of the 



inscription of Freshford, 284 n., 285, n. 



Beaufort, Miss, her arguments in support of the 

 hypothesis of the Round Towers having been 

 used as fire-temples, stated and refuted, 

 37-43. 



Bede, Venerable, referred to, 352, 438, 439, 

 440. 



quoted, 140. 



his abstract of Adamnan's Work 



" De Situ Terrs Sanctee," quoted, 419, 436, 

 437, 446. 



his Chronicle referred to, 47. 



. his Hist. Eccl. quoted, 125. 



his Life of St. Cuthbert quoted, or re- 



ferred to, 127, 128, 443. 

 Beds, giants.' See Graves. 

 Bel, or Baal, an idol, fires of, 39; Beul, the 



deity, 40. 

 Belfries, opinion of the author of Cambrensis 



Eversus, as to the use of the Round Towers 



as such, 7. 



of the early Christians, 31. 



theory of the use of the Round Towers 



exclusively as, rejected, 120; and in conjunc- 

 tion with other uses, advocated, 1 20, et seq. 



classified with other ecclesiastical build- 



ings, 159. 

 treated of as a class of Irish eccle- 



siastical buildings, 355, et seq See Round 

 Towers. 



Campanilia, or detached belfries, used 



in Ireland from a very early period, 359. 



Belfries, existence of, in Ireland in St. Colum- 

 ba's time, 386. 



Round Towers still used as such in 



many places, 360. 



Round Towers acknowledged by Val- 



lancey to have been used as, 18, 19. 



fallacious statement of Beauford as to 



the conversion of the Round Towers into, 

 about the twelfth century, 33. 



round turret, placed on churches, 392, 



393. 



Belfry, theory, 65-67. 

 ancient Irish, called Cloictheach, proved 



to be a distinct building, 361-363. 

 Belfry, square, ancient example of, in Ireland, 



360. 



Belfry-building, 344. 

 Belgians, intercourse of the ancient Irish with, 



212. 

 Bell of the Round Tower of Rattoo, in the 



County of Kerry, tradition connected with, 



397. 

 of the Cloictheach ofSlane mentioned, 49, 



57. 

 Bells, ancient, 151, 191, 335, 336. 



use of, in ancient Ireland, 33, 386. 



"y e STEEPLE WITH y e BELLS," 149. 



fabricated by St. Dageus, 201. 



Author's Essay on ancient Irish, referred 



to, 220. 



ancient consecrated, treated of, 249. 



of a size much too large for altar bells, 



distributed by St. Patrick in Ireland, 380. 



carried from a cloictheach, 390. 



Bel-theine, 41. 



Bel-theine, supposed to be the sacred fires of 

 Baal, 38. 



Beltaine, explanation of, from an an- 

 cient MS., 39. 



Belltaine, explained by Cormac M'Cul- 



lenan, 39- 

 Benchor. See Bangor. 



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