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INDEX. 



Triquetra, an ancient ornament, treated of, 

 with examples; supposed to be a mystical 

 type of the Trinity, 320-322. 



Truaghan, Dr. O'Conor's mistake of, for Tur- 

 aghan, and his explanation of the latter, 51 ; 

 Mr. O'Eeilly's observations on the same, 51, 

 52 ; Mr. O'Donovan's observations on the 

 same, 52; Dr. O'Conor's mistake in deci- 

 phering of, accounted for by Author, 53 ; ex- 

 planation of the word, ib. 



Trummery, County of Antrim, Round Tower 

 of, age of, 392. 



Trumpet, a kind of, dug up in the neighbour- 

 hood of some of the Towers, 70. 



Tuaim Greine, cloictheach or Round Tower of, 

 renewed, 274 See Tomgraney, 377. 



Tuam, archbishop of, letter of, and his suffra- 

 gans, written about the year 1214, 170; 

 quoted, 171. 



archiepiscopal crozier of, 311, 312, 313. 



cathedral of, rebuilt, 269 ; treated of, 



311-315; age of considered, 311-314; cha- 

 racteristic features of the chancel of, de- 

 scribed, 314, 315; great stone cross at, 312, 

 313, 314; inscriptions on the base of, 312, 

 313 , Irish inscriptions formerly in the 

 choir of the present church of Tuam, 311, 

 312. 



stone cross at, age of, purpose of erection 



of, &c., 269- 



Tuathal, abbot of Clonmacnoise, 112. 



Tuatha De Dananns, 16. 



Tuatha De Dananns, the nobles of the, buried 

 at Brugh, 99, 101, 105, 106; seven of, in- 

 terred at Tailtenn, 105, 106. 



otherwise called Siabhras, said by 



some to have killed King Cormac, 98. 



sepulchral monuments of, 102, 103, 



104. 



original country of, 1 26 ; character 



of buildings of, 126, 128. 

 race, characterictics of, 384. 



Tuirbi Traghmar, the father of the Goban Saer, 



legend concerning, 382-384 ; probable race 

 of, 382, 383. 



Tulach in bhiail, near Turvy, County of Dublin. 

 282, 283. 



Tullaherin, County of Kilkenny, Round Tower 

 of, compared with the great Tower of Clon- 

 macnoise, 409, 410; upper apertures of, 410. 



Tullamaine, County of Kilkenny See Telach- 



n-ionmainne. 



Tur, or tor, a tower, not derived from the 

 Latin, but from a common source, 116. 



Turaghan, 71- 



Turaghan Angcoire, erroneously explained 

 " Fire-tower of the Anchorite," 72. 



Turas, explanation of the word, 1 1 7, 118, 119- 



Turkish mosques, turrets in the neighbourhood 

 of, 70. 



Turlough, King of Connaught. See Toirdhel- 

 bhach. 



Turris, the Latin word, never applied by 

 the Irish to a tour, or penance, in the 

 Irish language, nor ever adopted by the 

 Irish into their own language, 116. 



Turvey, in the County of Dublin See Traigh 



Tuirbi. 



Tyre, temple of, two columns at, dedicated to 

 the wind and to fire, 70. 



U. 



Ua Briain, Conchobhar, King of Munster, 305. 



Ua Ceallaigh Diarmaid, abbot of Rathain, 

 243. 



Saerbhrethach, abbot of Rathain, 



243. 



Ua Conchobhair, Toirdhelbbach, King of Con- 

 naught, 305. 



Ua Focarta, 270, 271. 



Ua Maelsechlainn, Murcath, King of Meath, 

 305. 



Uamnach, airchinneach of Lemdruim, 337. 



Ua Ruaidhne, Flannchadh. See Flannchadh. 



Ua Suanaigh, St. Fidhairle, abbot of Rathain, 



