Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

PRE-CHRISTIAN IRELAND and spear fitments of La Tène style was discovered at Lisnacrogher, County Antrim. Although now a bog, the ...

PROMONTORY FORTS Various placenames seem to commemorate these deities; for instance, Lugmad (Lugmoth? =Lug’s penis (?) = Louth), ...

PROMONTORY FORTS engagement with the sea and maritime activity for their occupants. Many of them incorporate the Irish word dún( ...

The remarkably late use of promontory forts can also be seen on a sixteenth-century map-picture of Portrush, County Antrim made ...

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Q QUEENS Just as there were several different levels of kingship in early Ireland, so are there instances where the title “queen ...

QUEENS the old. It has been suggested that in these cases the queen was seen to symbolize the sovereignty of the land and that m ...

R RACIAL AND CULTURAL CONFLICT Racial and cultural conflict in medieval Ireland is most famously described in a document written ...

RACIAL AND CULTURAL CONFLICT for instance, charged the other with treachery. Giraldus was adamant that the Irish were “constant ...

RÁITH BRESSAIL, SYNOD OF See alsoAnglo-Norman Invasion; Bruce, Edward; Gaelicization; Lordship of Ireland; National Identity; Vi ...

Clonard (both in Meath); and Clonfert, Tuam, Cong, Killala, and Ardcarn or Ardagh (all five in Connacht). Those chosen for the s ...

RAWLINSON B 502 with introduction and indexes, was published by Kuno Meyer. The manuscript is described in great detail by Brian ...

mostly on historical topics, either directly or indirectly inspired by the Old Testament. Within this biblico- historical unit i ...

RECORDS, ADMINISTRATIVE this general model from some time in the thirteenth century but to have produced and kept only two main ...

Irish chancery rolls to survive were a Patent Roll for 1302 −1303 and a Close Roll for 1308−1309. The Irish Record Commission se ...

RECORDS, ECCLESIASTICAL The major sets of annals, monastic in origin and compiled and r-combined from various sources, were cont ...

RECORDS, ECCLESIASTICAL to the holding of benefices on the grounds of illegiti- macy, provisions to benefices or disputes over t ...

RELIGIOUS ORDERS Flanagan, M-Th. “The Context and Uses of the Latin Charter in Twelfth-century Ireland. H. Pryce (ed.), In Liter ...

RELIGIOUS ORDERS Clairvaux, then at the height of its influence. Leaving a number of his entourage to be trained as monks he pro ...

RELIGIOUS ORDERS Anglo-Irish religious for hunting and killing the Gaelic population without compunction. Separatist tendencies ...