INDEX
Irish Chronicles, 20–22
Áedán mac Gabráin’s miliary activity described in, 5–6
Irish customs
adoption of by Anglo-Normans, 183
Irish dynasties
pacification of, 174
Irish hermit monks as missionaries, 129
Irish influence on Norse, 419
Irish language, 261–263
Welsh loan words to, 261
Irish Life of Cóemgen, 163
Irish martyrological tradition in hagiography, 209
Irish pirates, 451
Irish Placenames Commission, 376
Irish royalty
and undermining of nobility, 161
Iron, 326
Invasion myth
Cath Crinna, 235
Historia Brittonum, 234
Lebor Gabala Érenn [The Book of the Taking of Ireland],
233
other legends, 234–235
Story of Tuán mac Cairill, 234
Israel Scottus, 205
Íte
and monastery of Killeedy, 235–236
Itinerarium Symonis Semeonis ab Hybernia ad Terram
Sanctam, 218
Ívarr, dynasty of, 503
J
Jewelry, 93–94, 327
Jews, in Ireland, 239–240
John
lordship of Ireland, 16, 18
King of England, 240–242, 255, 256, 277, 282–283
John of Salisbury, 210
John XXII, Pope, 283, 361
Jonas of Bobbio, 89, 100
Jones, Henry, 247
Justiciar, 72, 77
appointment of, 77–78
duties and powers of, 78–79
origin of office of, 77
K
Karlsruhe calendar, 209
Keating, Geoffrey, 397
Kells, Book of, 25, 39, 141
controversy over date, place, and origin, 423
decorations, 245–246
diversity of approaches within, 317
history of, 246–247
Kells, synod of, 85, 247–249
attendance, 248
Kerne, 190
Kildare
Cogitosus’s account of, 96
feud with Ormond, 176
origin and early history of, 249
Kildare Ascendancy
height of, 175
Kildare Geraldines
familial characteristics of, 175
Kildare marches
defense of, 174
Kildare Poems (MS Harley 913), 213
Kilkenny, 249–250
Killeedy, monastery of
and Íte, 235–236
Kilmolappogue, battle of, 127
Kings and kingship, Irish
development of dynastic, 252–253
duties of, 252
early concept of, 165
first explicit references to, 422
historical roots, 251–252
overkingships, 253
sacral, 252
succession, 252
Kinsale, port of, 386
kinship, 43
Knighthood, 437
Knight’s fee, 331–332
Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights
Hospitallers), 73, 330, 331
Knights Templar, 330, 331L
Lacy, Hugh de, 77, 177, 241–242, 255, 256–257, 502, 496
dealings with Áed Méith Ua Néill, 478–479
and fortification of Drogheda, 385
granted Meath, 18
Lacy, Margery de, 502
Lacy, Walter de, 109, 177
Laigin, 257
Lake dwellings. See Crannogs
The Lake Dwellings of Ireland (Wood-Martin),
Lambart, Charles, 247
Land
arrangement of, 433
redistribution of, 316
Landnámabók, 74
Land of Cockayne, 50, 213, 214
Land ownership, 9
headship of noble kindred, 252
records of, 76
rent and fee farm, 498
transference of, through marriage, 320–321
Land tenures
and manorialism, 314–316
substitution of, 168
Languages, 202–203, 261–263