INDEX
Sitriuc Silkenbeard, 46, 92, 429
Skuldelev 2 Viking warship, 112
Slaine, battle of, 14–15
Slavery, 430–431
Sligo, town of, 386
Society, Anglo-Norman, 431–434, 436–438
Society, Gaelic, 434–436
artisans and, 440
the Church and grades in, 440
elaboration of grades in legal texts, 439
movement between classes in, 440
poets and their grades in, 439–440
and the productive use of wealth or skills, 440
secular grades in early medieval period, 438
women and children in, 439
worthy behavior and, 440–441
Sóer chéilsine (free clientship), 91
Sogain, 117
“Song of Cerball’s Sword,” 75
Song of Dermot and the Earl, 168, 256, 277
Song poems, 329
Souterrain, 25, 412
Spanish boats in west Cork (1572), 450
Splintered estates, 433
Stair na Lombardach [The History of the Lombards], 280
Stamford Schism, 178
Stanyhurst, Richard, 108, 208
Statutes of Kilkenny, 191
causes of, 183
status of, 366
Stone carving, 112–113
Story of Tuán mac Cairill, 234
Stories, French-influenced, 185
The Stowe Missal, 124
St. Canice’s Cathedral, 250
St. Columb’s Stone, 12
St. John, Elizabeth, 176
St. Patrick’s Bell, 327
St. Patrick’s cathedral, 364, 441–442
elevation to collegiate status of, 119
St. Paul, John de, 81
St. Stephen, 324
Strongbow (Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare), 77, 87, 303
and arrival of FitzGeralds, 173
Henry II and, 211, 458
and Kildare, 249
life of, 442–443
marriage to Aífe, 11, 442
Succession, dynastic, in right of one’s wife, 11
Summa de Quaestionibus Armenorum (FitzRalph), 178
Surnames, introduction of, 374
Swords, 511–513
Synthetic historians, 181
synods, 63
Synodus Episcoporum (First Synod of Saint Patrick), 370T
Tadhg Dall Ua hUiginn, 381
Tadhg Ua Ruairc, 483
Tail make, 437
Táin bó Cúailgne [The Cattle-Raid of Cooley], 6, 132, 133,
381, 494
Táin Bó Fraích, 133
Talbot, Gilbert, 305
Tallaght, center of Celi Dé movement, 71
Tánaiste (tanist), 445
Tanderagee idol, 388
Taoiseach (leader), 456
Tapestries. See Wall paintings
Tara, 445–446
archaeological remains of animals, 387
battle of, 14–15, 446–447
promotion of, by Cúán úa Lothcháin, 118
Taranis, 387
Teach Molaisse, 408
Tecosca Cormaic, 517
Temair Breg, baile na fían [Tara of Brega, Homestead of the
Champions], 118
Templars, 330–331
Tenant society, 438
Termon, burning of, 164
Textiles, 113–114
Theodore of Mopsuestia, 39
Theological literature, Hiberno-Latin, 216–217
Threefold death
festivals and, 389
origin and significance, 10–11
Thurneysen, Rudolf, 132
Tide mills, 335
Tigernán Ua Ruairc (d. 1172), 482–483
split with Diarmait mac Murchada, 482
Tigernán Mór Ua Ruairc, 483
Tírechán, 447–448
Tnúthgal mac Donngail, 164
To c hmarc Étaíne [The Wooing of Étaíne], 87, 133
Todd, J. H., 245
To gáil Bruidne Da Derga [The Destruction of Da Derga’s
Hostel], 10
To gáil na Tébe, 89
To gáil Troí (Dares Phrygius), 89
Topographia Hibernie [Topography of Ireland] (Giraldus
Cambrensis), 199
on Brigit, 49
illustrations of dress, 94
Toponymic scholarship, 376
Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne, 166
Tower houses, 68–69, 448–449
Towns
administration of, 497–499
Anglo-Norman, 509
Gaelic, 509
monastic, 508
Scandinavian, 508–509
walled, 508–509