INDEX. 



519 



historical notices of, &c., 242, 243 ; successors 

 of, 243 ; new establishment at Rathain found- 

 ed by, ib. 



Ua Suanaigh's Cross at Rathain, 243. 



Ui Amhalgaidh, annual meeting of, 107. 



Ui Briuin, poet of, 305. 



Ui Drona, lord of, 283, 284, 337. 



Ui Eachdach. See Iveagh. 



Ui Fiachrach Aidhne, 377 See Aidhne. 



Ui Focertaidh, plundered Clonmacnoise, 270. 



Ui Neill, northern, 224 ; southern, do. ib. 



Ui Neill race, southern, cemetery of, 327. 



Ui Neill, southern, chief steward of, 406. 



Ui Niallain, familia de, a quo, 157. 



Ui Riagain, 43. 



Uisneach, palace of, noticed by Comerford, 40. 



convocation of, fires lighted at, 41. 



Mons, 158; stones of, cursed by SS. 



Patrick and Secundinus, 159- 



Uladh, king of, 305. 



Ulidia, devastated, 201, 202. 



king of, 150, 151. 



Ulster, the chiefs of, buried at Tailtenn, 99, 

 101, 105, 106. 



Unga, or ounce, 219. 



Universal History referred to, 47. 



Urn pagan, found within the Tower of Tirna- 

 hoe, stated by Sir William Betham to have 

 contained cremated bones, 82 ; comments 

 on this statement, 414, 416. 



with human bones stated to have been 



found in the Tower of Abernethy, 89; 

 comments on this statement, 92, 93. 



Urns, cinerary, dug out of old pagan cairns and 

 tumuli, 73. 



or jars, pieces of, and sundry other arti- 

 cles, stated by Mr. Black to have been found 

 within the Tower of Brechin, 95. 

 . sepulchral, 102. 



Ussher, archbishop, his Primordia quoted, 125, 



195. 

 his Report on the Diocese of Meath, 



quoted, 265. 



Ussher, MS. of the Registry of Clonmacnoise 

 in the possession of, 265. 



- his Sylloge quoted, 214, 215. 



Utensils, belonging to the altar, skill of the 

 ancient Irish ecclesiastics in the art of ma- 

 nufacturing, 200, 201. 



V. 



Valentia, Lord, Round Towers discovered by, 



in India, 31. See Bhaugulpore. 

 Vallancey, General, the originator of the theory 



of the pagan uses of the Round Towers, 14. 

 his Essay on the Antiquity of the 



Irish Language quoted, 14, 15. 

 his conjecture as to the Phoenician or 



Indo-Scythian origin of the Round Towers, 

 and their uses as fire-temples, and for various 

 other purposes, stated and refuted, 14-32. 

 his fanciful derivations of Irish words 



and names, 14-29, 449- 



his translation of fid neimead, 61. 



his Collectanea quoted, 133, 134. 



the first writer who attributed to the 



Round Towers any other than a Christian, 

 or at least, a medieval origin, 356. 



Vedrafiord, or Vedra's Ford, a name of Water- 

 ford, 259. 



Veils, used in ancient churches, 196, 197. 



linen, which screened the sanctuary of 



Kildare, 203, 204 ; such veils suspended in 

 all the ancient churches, 204. 



Virgin, Blessed, none of the ancient Irish 

 churches dedicated to, previously to the 

 twelfth century, 172. 



Vossius, opinion of, 198. 



W. 



Wall, broad, of stones, surrounded the ancient 

 monastic establishments, 127 See Cashel. 



Walsh, Peter, author of the Prospect of Ire- 

 land, his assertion as to the origin and uses 



