Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

INDEX

Plunkett, Sir Oliver, 378
Plunkett, Thomas, 377–378
Plunkett, Walter, 377
Poems on the Butlers, 134
Poems on the O’Reillys, 134
Poer, David Rothe (Ruad, “the red”) le, 378
Poer, Eustace fitz Benedict le, 378
Poer, John fitz William le, 378
Poer, Nicholas fitz John le, 378
Poer, Nicholas le, 378
Poer, Richard fitz John le, 378
Poer, Simon le, 378
Poets and poetry, Irish, 191, 283–284
Acallam na Senórach, 166
bardic poetry, 383
Céitinn, Seathrún, 182–183
Cináed úa hArtacáin, 419
dán díreach meters in poetry, 134
distinction between fili and bard, 381, 382–383
Fíachnae’s influence, 170
Flann mac Lonáin, 179–180
Flann Mainistrech, 180–181
French influence on, 185
Gerald, Third Earl of Desmond, 197
Gilla-Pátraic, 198
Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe, 291
Gormlaith, 203
Hiberno-Latin, 217, 379–380
Mac Liacc, Muirchertach, 343
Máel-Ísu Ua Brolcháin, 307–308
meter of, 329
ógláchas meters in poetry, 134
post-Norman professional organization, 7
post-1200, 381–382
pre-1200, 380–381
as satirists, 417
of Sedulius Scottus, 379, 426
training and status of poets, 6–7, 381, 382
types of poetry, 382
the Ua Dálaigh, 476–476
Population, size of medieval, 383–384
Port cities, 509–511
Port settlements, Viking, 385–386
Post mill, 336
Pottery, 113
Poultry, 8
Power, balance of, 161
Power, Patrick (Canon), 376
Poynings, Edward, 176
Poyning’s Law, 102
enactment of, 102, 366
and the Irish Pale, 359
Prebendaries, 441
Precamur patrem (Columbanus), 100
Pre-Christian Ireland
burial practices, 388
deities, 388–389

feast days, 389

human sacrifice, 388

priesthoods, 387

ritual sites, 387

sacrificial deposits, 387–388

Preston, Robert, 437–438

The Pride of Life, 82, 214

Primogeniture, 432, 433

Priories, 1–2

Priscian, 205

Private armies, 433

Productivity, necessity of, 440

Promontory forts, 389–391

functions of, 390

Property, transference of through marriage, 320–321

Prophesies and vaticinal literature, 391

Prose

Acallam na Senórach, 166

Prosper of Aquitaine, 82

Psalters, 423

Pseudo-Augustine, 40

Pseudohistorical literature

Máel-Mura Othna and, 308

Ptolemy’s map of Ireland, 276

Puher (Poer), Henry, 378

Puher (Poer), Robert, 378

Purgatory, early doctrines on, 420

Puritanical cleansing, 163–164

Q

Quaestio biblica (FitzRalph), 178

“The Quarrel about the Loaf,” 75

Quay excavations (Dublin), 220

Queenship

defined, 393

powers of, 393–394

in religious life, 393–394

R

Rabbits, 8

Radiocarbon dating of fish weirs, 172

Ráith Bressail, synod of, 249, 461

Armagh and Munster predominant, 398

attendees, 397

new diocesan structure, 84–85, 397–398

Rank, and legal rights, 438

Ráth (payment), 454

Rawlinson B 502 (MS Bodleian Library, Oxford), 398–400

“Readepcion,” 260

The Red Book of Ormond, 76

The Red Book of Ossory, 380, 404

The Red Book of the Earls of Kildare, 76

Red Hugh Ua Domnaill, 477

Redshanks, 334

Reformation, 409–410

Refugees

and flight from famine, 163