INDEX. 



485 



Glendalough, probable age of ruins at, 245. 



the small chapel or oratory at, po- 

 pularly called the Priests' House, or Priests' 

 Church, fragments of ornamented architec- 

 ture of, examined, 245-250, 263. 



origin of name of, 245 ; age of 



church, 249, 250. 

 a duirtheach or oratory, po- 



pularly so called, dimensions of, 348. 

 ruins of the church of the two Sin- 



chells at, 443. 

 ruins of St. Kieran's church at, 



lately existing, 433. 

 no traces of the houses or cells of 



the monks at, 418. 



sacristy at, 440. 



monumental stone cross at, ornament 



on, 323. 



263. 



sepulchral cross at, described, 262, 



coins found at, according to Ware, in 



1639 ; 228. 

 plundered and devastated by the 



Danes, 228. 

 montana de Glindelachan, 207. 



Glenloire, filius Mainani de, 137- 



Glenn in Matae, the Glen of the Mata, at 



Brugh na Boinne, 103. 

 Glossary of Cormac Mac Cullenan. See Cor- 



mac's Glossary. 

 Glossary, ancient Irish, on vellum, quoted, 221, 



338. 



in a MS. in the Library of Trinity Col- 

 lege Dublin, H. 2, 16, quoted, 59, 64. 

 Glossaries, ancient, in the Library of Trinity 



College, Dublin, quoted, 141, 333. 

 Gluniarn, Armagh plundered by, 1 45. 

 Gno, territory of, in the west of Connaught, 



105, 106. 



Gnomon, 14, 58. See Observatories. 

 Gnomons, astronomical See O'Conor, Dr., and 



Round Towers. 



Goban, St., or Goban Saer, the artificer, duir- 

 theach built by, 345. 



Goban Saer, church ascribed to, 402. 



a celebrated architect, erection of 



Eound Towers ascribed to, 382. 



districts in which he is said never to 



have been employed, 382 ; probable place of 

 the birth of, 382, 383; father of, ib. 

 erection of Round Tower of Antrim 



ascribed to, 401. 

 erection of Round Tower of Kilmac- 



duagh ascribed to, 402. 



Gobhan, the cave of the wife of, 103, 104. 



Gobnet, St., her oratory on Aran, dimensions 

 of, 348. 



Godfrid, son of Sitric, King of Dublin, 223. 



Goffredus nepos Imari, Armagh plundered by, 

 146, 147. 



Gorman, comharba ofMochta of Louth, death 

 of, 267. 



Gorman Marian. See Marian. 



Gorman, Maurice, his copy of the Annals of the 

 Four Masters, noticed, 53. 



Gormflaith, daughter of Flann, Queen of Niall 

 Glundubh, death of, 117. 



Gormgall, St., eremetical life of, on High Is- 

 land, 423, 424. 



Gospels, given by St. Patrick to St. Cianan 

 [Kienan], 142; copy of, preserved in the 

 neighbourhood of Duleek, in 1682-3, pro- 

 bably one of those venerable monuments of 

 the Scriptures at present in the Library of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, ib. 



manuscript copy of, in the British Mu- 

 seum, written in Ireland, date of, 305 ; en- 

 tries in, quoted, ib. 



oldest manuscript copies of, ornament 



used in, 321. 



Gothic architecture, examples of, referred to, 

 317. 



Grseco-Roman, or Byzantine character, inscrip- 

 tion in, 133. 



