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Volume 1

DE BURGO (Edmond)
130
Inscription on the tomb of
130
DELVINS (The)
406 to 408
Situation of
406 to 408
Dealbhna Cuile Fabhair (called also Dealbhna Tire Da Locha) and Dealbhna Feanmuighe
407
Dealbhna Feadha, coextensive with Moycullen Barony
407
DONAGHPATRICK PARISH
146 to 160
357
Situation and name
146
Old Church
146 to 147
356
Account of its erection from Colgan-s Life of Saint Fulartus
148 to 157
Magh Suil Plain (Country of the Hy-Briuin) - extent of
147
159
Extracts from Life of Saint Fulartus of Disert-Fulartaich in Hy Failghe
152
And from Ogygia
155 to 156
Colossi or Pillar Stones inscribed by Saint Patrick with the name of Christ in three languages
155 to 157
160
Lough Hackett, Loch Sealga and Loch Cime
157
159
Enach-Duin
158
Temple of Saint Brigid
158
Abbey ruins in Abbeytown
160
Hy-Briuin Seola, supposed to have been located near Elphin
160
Cill na Manach (now Kilnamanach)
357
Beitheach (now Behagh-Beg and More)
357
DRUMACOO PARISH
301 to 302
Situation and name
301
Saint Sornach, the Patroness
301
Her bed, bush and well in Drumacoo
301
Old Church
301
Cillin Arann old Church (site of)
302
Old Church (site of) occupied by the Protestant Church
302
DRUMTEMPLE PARISH
68
Situation and name
68
Old Church (site of)
68
DUMHA SEALGA - See Magh Aoi
DUNAMON PARISH
77
Situation
77
Dunamon Castle, the residence of O'Feenaghty
77
DUNMORE PARISH
18 to 25
82 to 85
Situation
18 to 19
Dunmore Castle erected by Haiste, a distinguished Chieftain of the English conquest, and son of Membric, a famous warrior of the Welsh nation
19
Hostys, his descendants, now numerous in this part of the Country
19
Cormac O'Coman the Poet
19
84 to 85
Annals of Connaught the best authority for the history of the Castles of Connaught
19
Dunmore Castle in latter times called Dun Mor Mhic Fheorais
19
Tradition relative to preserved by old Treacy from the poet O'Coman
20
Hosty driven out by Bermingham
20
His descendants having assumed the name of Mac Orish, kept possession till expelled by Colonel Hoath in the Wars of Ireland
21
Situation and description of the Castle
21
Was an ancient Irish Military Station before the arrival of the Anglo Norman and Welsh families
21 to 22
Notices from Annals of Four Masters
22 to 23
Erroneously made the Domhnach-Padraig of the Tripartite by Archdall
23
Abbey erected by Walter De Birmingham, Lord Baron of Athenry (1425)
23 to 24
Its ruins described by the French Artists in 1779
24
Tobar na Croiche Naomhtha (well dedicated to the Holy Cross of Christ) in Cappagh
24
Original Parish Church
24
St. Patrick's Stone
24
Cill tSuibhne old Church and graveyard, called after Saint Suibhne
25
Sepulchral carn of the ante-diluvian Ceasair, stated by Giraldus to have been pointed out in Connaught in his own time
25
Cnoc Mhanannain
82
Rath Coll
82
Mac Feorish and Burke having surrendered at the storming of Dunmore Castle, forfeited their estates
82
Attyflin and Flaskagh (Burke's property) given to a family named Purcell
83
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Volume 2

DONANAUGHTA PARISH
61 to 62
Name
61
Eyrecourt Town and Demeene
61 to 62
Old Church
61
Windows in west gable
61
Church at the Demesne gate
62
Stone with Latin inscription in south side wall
62
Remains of old Castle at Eyrecourt House
62
DOORUS PARISH
See Kinvarradoorus
DUNIRY PARISH
490 to 494
Situation and name
490
Doon (the) from which the Parish is named on Knockadoon
490
Old Church
490 to 492
Toberbreeda holy well in Lackabaun
492
Garryvreeda (Bridgid's Garden) a field so called in which there is a tree remarkable for its age
492
Bran's holy well in Lime Hill
493
Templebsnaha (Blessed Church) ruins of
493
Knock-a-Cashlaun, site of old Castle on, in Cloonacastle alias Cloonacashlan
493 to 494
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Volume 3

DAMH-ROS POINT
14
DAMNONII
442 to 444
A Belgic tribe so called
442 to 444
DARCEY
4
Of Clifden, called by the Irish Seághan O'Dorchadha
4
DERMOT & GRANIA'S BED (Leaba Dhiarmada a's Ghraine)
268 to 269
Why Cromleachs are so called
268 to 269
DUBH-CHATHAIR (Doocaher)
242 to 251
Name
242 to 247
Situation
247
habitations
245
Ground plan
249
Cloghauns in the interior described - Cyclopean remains near Kilronan and at Kilmurry
250 to 251
DUN AENGUS
197 to 220
Name and situation of
197
Roderick O'Flaherty's description of
197 to 199
Situation and modern state of described by John T. O'Flaherty
200 to 201
Tuatha de Danann and Firbolg Colonies arrived in Ireland previous to the introduction of the orders of architecture into Greece
202 to 203
Mr. O'Donovan's description of the Dun
204 to 221
Ground plan
206
Sketch of part of the inner wall
209
Ledwich's description
214 to 217
Sketch published by him
219
Description of a Church built by Saint Cuthbert in England
214
Aengus Mac Umore from whom the Dun is named - His bronze fishing hook found on the island, and sketch
220 to 221
DUN CONCHOBHAIR
252 to 258
Name
252
O'Flaherty's derivation of
253 to 255
Situation
255
Description
255 to 257
Ground plan
258
Cloghauns
259 to 261
DUN EOCHLA
230 to 240
Name
230 to 233
Situation and description
234 to 239
Ground plan
240
DUN EOGANACHT
222 to 229
Situation and name
222 to 224
Description
224 to 225
Ground plan
225
Eoganachts, notice of families so called
222 to 224
Aran (Great Island of) consisted of three Townlands: Trian Muimhneach (the Momonian Ternal Division), Trian Connachtach (the Connacian Third) and Trian Eoganacht (the Eugenian Third)
223
Cloghauns, stone houses described
228 to 229
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