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INDEX. 



Caoinechair, Lector of Slane, burned in the 



Round Tower, 49, 57, 370, 371. 

 Captive's Stone, on Inis Mhic Dara, 189. 

 Caradoc of Llancarven, referred to, 324. 

 Carbreus filius Neill, 160. 

 Carcar Leith Machae, the Prison of Liath 



Macha, a monument at Brugh na Boinne, so 



called, 103. 



Carcar at Armagh, 106. 

 Carl us, the sword of, 213. 

 Carn, the stone earn, monumental character of, 



102. 

 the ulaidh or earn of Fothadh Airg- 



theach, 108. 

 Carn ail Cuinn Cet-cathaigh, the stone canl 



of Conn of the Hundred Battles, a sepul- 

 chral monument at Brugh na Boinne, 102, 



103. 

 Carn Amhalgaidh, a sepulchral monument, un- 



de nom., 107. 

 Carn of the Three Crosses at Clonmacnoise, 



435. 

 Carthach, St., or Mochuda, Eathain founded by, 



242 ; expelled from Eathain, founds Lismore, 



&c., 242, 419, 444 ; number of monks under, 



at Eathain, 424. 



Carthen Finn, prince of Thomond, 138. 

 Cases (ancient leather) or covers of sacred books, 



shrines, &c., treated of, 329, 330, 332-337 ; 



ancient Irish names of, 333-337. 

 Cases, ancient silver, for books See Cum- 



dachs. 

 Cashel, archbishop of, 249. 



cathedral of, 302. 



burned in 1495; 84. 



Cormac's chapel at See Cormac's, &c. 



king of, 288. 



Tower of, examination of, by the South 



Munster Society of Antiquaries [Author's 



examination of the result], 81, 84, 85, 88, 89. 



apertures in Tower of, 411, 412. 



stone cross at, 269, 303. 



Cashel, or enclosure around the church of 

 Armagh, 156. 



Cashel, or Caisel, a circular stone wall sur- 

 rounding the ancient Irish monasteries, 418. 



around the monastery of High Island, 



422, 423, 443. 



Cashels, classified with other ecclesiastical 

 buildings, 159- 



treated of, as a class of Irish ecclesiasti- 

 cal buildings, 442-448. 



were but imitations of the pagan for- 

 tresses, 442. 



materials of, 442. 



various Irish names of, 442, 444, 445, 



446. 



those of earth have rarely escaped de- 

 struction, 442. 

 examples of, now remaining, 443, 444, 



446, 447. 

 measurement adopted by St. Patrick 



in all such works, 443. 

 object of erecting such enclosures, 



443, 444, 446. 



in very many instances the religious 



houses were built within the pagan for- 

 tresses given up to the clergy by the Irish 

 princes, 444. 

 circular and concentric walls round 



the Church of the Eesurrection at Jerusa- 

 lem, 446. 



Cassanus, disciple of St. Patrick, placed at Do- 

 naghmore, 408 ; relics of, 408. 



Cathair, or circular enclosure of stone around 

 the cemetery at Rathcroghan, 106. 



Cathair Cruachna, the royal cemetery at Rath- 

 croghan, so called, 105 See Eathcroghan. 



Cathjir [Mor] buried at Oenach Ailbhe, 99, 

 101. 



Cathairs See Cashels. 



Cathal, the son of Conor, king of Connaught, 

 273; year of his death, 273. 



Cathal Maguire. See Maguire. 



