INDEX. 



499 



Muircheartach, King of Aileach, slain A. D. 975, 

 221. 



Muircheartach, son of Niall, King of Aileach, 

 305. 



Muircheartach Mac Loughlin, monarch, 316. 



Muircheartach O'Brien, King of Ireland, tomb 

 of, 275. 



year of his death, ib. 



Muircheartach O'Loughlin, monarch of Ireland, 

 presents made by, to the Abbot of Derry, 2 1 3. 



Cashel at Derry erected by, 446. 



Muireadhach O'Heney, tomb of, at Banagher, 

 in the County of Londonderry, 450. 



Muireadhach, son of Domlmall, Abbot of Monas- 

 terboice, 406. 



Muiredhach, inscription at Monasterboice, bear- 

 ing the name of, 406. 



Muiredhach, son of Flann, Abbot of Monaster- 

 boice, 406. 



Muiresc, Ailell Mac Mata of, 105, 106. 



Mungret, in the County of Limerick, very an- 

 cient church of, window in, described, 182. 



Munissa, one of the three sons of Nessan, 177. 



Munster, the burial place of the men of, i. e. the 

 Dergthene, 100, 101. 



Kings of, pagan, where interred, 105, 



106. 



Mun tores, rings so called, 213. 



Miintz-Spigel, of M. Tillemann Prize, referred 

 to, 210. 



Murchadh, grandson of Flann O'Maelsechlainn, 

 king of Tara, killed in the Round Tower of 

 Kells, 371. 



Muresc, daughter ofEocho Fedhlech, buried 

 at Brugh na Boinne, 99, 100. 



Mur na Morrigna, the mound of the Morrigan, 

 a monument at Brugh na Boinne, 102, 103. 



Muscraighe Chuirc, territory of, now the ba- 

 rony of Clanwilliam, in the County of Tip- 

 perary, 284. 



Music, ancient and modern church music con- 

 trasted, 192. 



N. 



Nar See Fidhnemhna. 



Nar, the wife of Cremhtham Niadh-nar, 99, 



101. 

 Natalis S., SS. Pereginos Romanes qui comi- 



tati sunt SS. Eliam, Natalem, &c., 137- 

 Navan, near Armagh, Druidic temple stated to 



be at, 32. 

 Nechtan, one of the seven sons of the Lombard, 



and nephew of St. Patrick, 166. 

 Nectanus, S. de KiU-unche, 166. 

 Neimhedh, meaning of the word, as shown from 



ancient authorities, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64. 

 Nemanus S., SS. Peregrines Romanes qui co- 



mitati sunt SS. Eliam, Natalem, Nemanum, 



et Corcnutanum, 137. 

 Nemedians, 16, 29. 

 Nenriius, referred to, 134. 

 Nessan, the three sons of, names of, and period 



when they flourished, 177. 

 Nessan, St., said to have been the founder of 



Mungret, Co. Limerick, 182. 

 Neslug, one of the three sons of Nessan, 177. 

 New Grange, sepulchral mound at, 103. 

 Niam, interred at Rathcroghan, 104. 

 Niam, daughter of Core, inscription bearing 



her name, 283. 

 Niall of the Nine Hostages, place of his burial, 



99, 101. 



Niall O'Heruilbh, 229 See O'Heruilbh. 

 Nigel, usurpation of the archbishopric of Ar- 

 magh by, 307. 



Nigellus, Archbishop of Armagh, 330. 

 Ninian, St., life of, as quoted by Ussher, quoted, 



140. 



the apostle of the Picts, 140. 



Noraghes. See Nuraghes. 



Norax, the leader of the Iberian colony, in 



Sardinia, 72. 

 Nuada Airgiod-lamh, or Nuada of the Silver 



Hand, 27. 



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