INDEX.

ABERCROMBIE.

ABERCROMBIE, SIR RALPH, in Ireland, 135.
Adamnan, St., mission of, to Northumbria, 19.
Adrian, Pope, bull of, to Henry II., confirmed
by Alexander III., 42.

Aengus, the first Christian king of Munster, 16.
Affane, battle at, 78.

Alinhain, battle of, 20.

Anne, queen of England, 124.

American war and the Irish actors therein, 126,
127, 130.

Ard Righ, the, 9; election of 14, 15.
Ard-Righ-go-Fresalra, 32.
Ardscull, English defeat at, 56.
Assemblies, general, 15.

Assembly, general, of 1642, first meeting of, 99.
Athboy, battle of, 32.

Ath-Luain (Athlone), bridge and castle of,
built, 48.

BALLAGHMOON, battle of, 25.

Balliol, John, claims the crown of Scotland, 55.
Barry, Gerald, the famous Cambrensis, 45.
Beasts, the three kinds of, designated for extir-
pation, 110.

Bede, the venerable, describes the pestilence of
656, 19.

Ballinasloe, the battle at, 121, 122.
Ballymore castle surrendered, 121.
Bellingham, Sir Edward, captain-general
Ireland, 74.

Benningham, Lord John, 57.

Berkeley, Lord, viceroy in Ireland, 112.
Black Death, the, in Ireland, 59.

Blathmac, King, 18.

CAIRBRÉ, attempt of, on the life of St. Patrick, 12.
Raida leads a colony to Scotland, 16.
Camden, Lord, viceroy of Ireland, 134.
Capel, Lord, viceroy of Ireland, 123.
Carew, Sir George, president of Munster, 90.
Sir Philip, returns to Ireland, 81.
Carlow, the attack on, 136.
Carragh, Cathal, expels Cathal Crooderg, 46.
Carrickfergus taken, 47; taken by Sir Henry
Sidney, 82.

Carte, opinion of, on the popish plot, 112.
Cashel, the chief town of Munster, 10; synod
held at, 40.

Castlehaven, Lord, describes the cruelties of
the English troops, 98.

Catholicism recognized in Ireland by Queen
Mary, 75.

Caven, James II. defeated at, 118.

in Cavendish, Lord Frederick, murdered in Pho-
nix Park, Dublin, 157.

Borooa, or tribute, exacted from Leinster, 10;
re-enacted by St. Patrick, 14.

Boulter, Dr. Hugh, archbishop of Armagh, 125.
Boyne, the, battle of, 119, 120.
Brehon code of laws, 14.

Brereton, Sir William, 74.

Brian and Malachy II., rivalry of, 28; Brian
attains the supreme power, 29.
Brown, Dr., in Ireland, 71, 72; reply to the
king, 73.

Bruce, Edward, offered the kingdom of Ireland,
56; death of, 57.

Robert, claims the crown of Scotland,
55; in Ireland, 56.

Burgo, see De Burgo.

Burkes, the, of Connaught declare themselves
independent of the English crown, 58.
Burke, Edmund, drowns another Edmund
Burke, in Lough Musk, 59.

Cecil, the English minister, and his scheme for
bebasing the coin in Ireland, 83.

Cenn Fuait settled by Sitric, 26.

Charles I. of England, 95, 96; proclamation of,
against the Irish rebels, 99; death of, 103.
II. of England in Ireland, 106; king
de facto, 111.
Charlemont, earl of, 131, 132.
Chichester, Sir Arthur, and his English reward,
94.

Christianity established as the chief law in
Ireland, 14.

Church, influence of, in the seventh century, 18.
of England established in Ireland by
law, 75.

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condition of, 79, 80.

Church of Christ," a, established, 108.

-, State, in Ireland, 148, 149, 150; dis-
established, 149.

Cinel-Connail and Cinel-Owen, 28.
Clonmacnois plundered, 46.
Clontarf, battle of, 31, 32.
Coercion bill passed, 157.