Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

INDEX

of Iona, 99
instrument depictions on, 347
and beginning of Irish sculpture, 424
High kingship
illusory, 253
revival, 189
Hinterland, Dublin
Fine Gall, 170
Historia Brittonum, 234
Historians
feudalism, perspectives on, 167
Historical tales, 381
of battles with foreign invaders, 221–222
Cath Almaine [The Battle of Allen], 221
Cath Maige Rath, 221
Fled Dúin na nGéd [The feast of Dún na nGed], 221
post-Norman period, 222
History
Céitinn’s compilation of, 181–183
poetic, 180–181
twelfth century chronicle, 186
History of the Kings of Britain, (Geoffrey of Monmouth),
222
Hoards, 96–97, 222–223
Hogan, Edmund, 376
Hogback tomb, 419
Holy Trinity (Augustinian priory), 441–442
Holy Trinity cathedral (Dublin). See Christ Church
cathedral
Honeybees, 8
Honor price, 43, 63, 252, 438, 439–440, 455
of children, 79
Horn blower, 347
Horns, 347
Horses, 8
Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers), 73,
330–331
Houses
archaeological and historical evidence, 224
early medieval rectangular (800–1000 A.D.), 224
early medieval round (500–800 A.D.), 224
in Hiberno-Norse Dublin and Waterford (c. 950–1200
A.D.), 225–226
in late medieval Ireland (1200–1500 A.D.), 226
social and symbolic organization of early medieval
houses, 225
Howth, Book of, 108
H.2.15A (MS Trinity College, Dublin), 287
Hugh de Lacy, 241–242
Hugh dePayens, 331
Hulk, 428
Humanist revival, 184
Human sacrifice, 388
Hundred Years’ War, 168, 258
Hunger. See Famine
Hurling, 192

I

Iar-Chonnacht. See Uí Briúin Seóla

Iconography, 227–228

and The Crucifixion, 228

and fifteenth- and sixteenth-century tombs, 228

Irish characteristics of, 227

Illuminated manuscripts, 316–318

Imbole, 389

Immrama, 228–230

and ocean voyages, 229

the “otherworld” and, 229

voyages, 228

Imraim Brain [Voyage of Bran], 102

Inaugural ceremonies

at Grianán Ailech, 12

Inauguration

mounds as sites for, 230–231

and ogam and roman alphabets, 231

rites of, 165

sites, 230–231

use of the word leac in place-names of sites for, 230

In Cath Catharda, 89

Incest, 65

In Dagda, 388

Inis Pádraig, synod of, 85

In Lebor Gerr, 181

Innocent II, 85, 247

Innocent III, 120, 242

Inscriptions

among earliest written records, 232

burial, 54

from medieval Ireland, 231

ogam, 231–232

roman-alphabet, 232

Instruction, monastic, 338–339

Instruciones (Columbanus), 100

Intermarriage, Irish-English, 191–192

Iona

founding of, 99

Ireland

becomes kingdom, 17

conquest of, 302

the English monarchy and, 258–259

influenced by Scotland, 422

Italian portulan maps of, 451

law in, 351

national identity of, 351–352

Irish administrative rolls, 400–401

Charter, 401

Close, 401–402

Issue, 401

Memoranda, 401

Patent, 401–402

Pipe, 401

Receipt, 401

surviving, 401–402