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INDEX. 



Malachy O'Morgair, Archbishop of Armagh, 

 usurpation of the archbishop in opposition 

 to, 307. 



Manchan, St., 137. 



Manchine, abbot of Cork, 440. 



Manius, Bishop, disciple of St. Patrick, church 

 of, 179; where placed by St. Patrick, ib. ; 

 holy well bearing his name, ib. 



Manuscript, Syriac, of the Gospels, 230, 237. 



Manuscripts, ancient Irish, ornaments common 

 in, 227, 256, 257, 258. 



ornamental crosses found in, 260, 



261. 



splendour of, 191. 



illuminated ecclesiastical, ornaments 



used in, 321, 323. 



Marcellinus, chronicle of, 47; quoted, 48. 



Marian Gorman, Calendar of, quoted, as trans- 

 lated by Colgan, 166, 353. 



Scholiast of, quoted, 353. 



Marianus Scotus, inclusorium at Fulda, peni- 

 tential prison of, 50, 73. 



Marriages, ancient Irish, 40. 



" Marstein, Erin's King," 259. 



Martin, Dr., his description of the Western Is- 

 lands of Scotland quoted, 39, 40. 



MartraMuntiriFinntainn, a pagan cemetery, 98. 



Marty rology of Donegal quoted, or referred to, 

 166, 353. 



Martyrology of Marian Gorman. See Marian 

 Gorman. 



Martyrology of Tallaght quoted, 352, 353. 



Mason-head in West Connaught, 189, 190. 



Masonry of the Round Towers identical with 

 that of the ancient churches erected before 

 the twelfth century, 36. 



style of, in primitive Irish churches, 



186, 187, 188, 189. 



Masons, names of St. Patrick's three stone- 

 masons, 141. 



Mata, a monster, the Glen of the, 103 See 

 Glenn in Matae. 



Mayo, daimhliag of, built by the Saxons, 143. 

 - fell, ib. 



rebuilt, ib. 



derthech of, burned, 120. 



church of, must not be confounded 



with the great abbey church of Mayo, erected 

 about the middle of the seventh century, 143. 



Meath, " Aed-Kii-Midin," on coin, 224. 



County of, topographical account of, 



written in 1682-3, referred to, 142. 



the people of, buried at Brugh na Boinne, 



in pagan times, 105. 

 . king of, 305. 



Medhbh, daughter of Eocho Fedhlech, 99, 100, 

 101. 



buried at Rathcroghan, 105, 106. 



province of Connaught given to, 99, 



101. 



Melbourne, in Derbyshire, church of, 438. 



Mellifont, in the County of Louth, chapel and 

 baptistery of, style of masonry of, 187; brick 

 used in, ibid. 



Menevia, St. David, archbishop of, 194. 



Messingham's Florilegium quoted, 349, 393. 



Midhe the Druid, 29. 



Midir. See Rout sula Midir. 



Midsgir See Misgir. 



Milesian Race. See Scotic Race. 



Military architecture in Ireland, Author's Essay 

 on, referred to, 44. 



Mill-building, payment for, 343, 344. 



Mills of stone, erected by the ancient Irish ec- 

 clesiastics, 450. 



Milner, Dr., 291, 295; an advocate for the 

 theory, that the Round Towers were erected 

 for the use of anchorites, 109, HI, 113. 



his assertion concerning the use of 



the Round Towers, 115, 116. 



his opinion concerning the age of the 



cathedral of Cashel, and Cormac's chapel, 286. 

 his letters quoted, 286. 



Minarets, Mahometan, 31. 



