Holywell Friary, Oxford, 681.
Holywood, Co. Down, seat of one of the
first nonconforming congregations in
Id., 869.

Homicides, excommund. by Abp. Fitz
Ralph, are absolved by the friars, 1110.
Homilies of the Church of England,
their mode of quoting the apocryphal
books of Scripture in some instances
noticed, 366.

Honorius I. See Pope.

Honorius of Autun, qd., 967.
Honorius, abp. Canterbury, his respect
for St. Aidan, 175.

Horseboys, benefices managed by, 815.
Hospitallers, knights, establishments
founded for, in Id. by the Anglo-
Norman invaders, 569, 570; their im-
munity from payment of the papal
tenths, 1160 n., 1163.

Hothome, John de, bp. of Ely, employed
by the Irish nobles to lay their com-
plaints before the king of England,
1132; in vain, ib.

Hoveden, Roger de, notice of, 482 n. ; his
Annals, ib., 503 n., &c.

Howel ap Grono, murdered by the Nor-
mans, 1030.

Hugh na Gavelock. See O'Neill.
Hy, monastery of. See Iona.
Hymn, St. Patrick's Irish, 40-42.
Hymns, use of, in the religious services
of the old Irish, 94, 101.
Iar-Connaught, or West Connaught,
1172 n., 1185; its extent, 1173.
Ibar, said to have preached in Id. before
S. Patrick, 35.

Ibas, condemned in the Fifth General
Council, 938.

Ibrach, (supposed to be Iveragh, Co.
Kerry,) 464.

Iccian Sea, 1193.

Iceland, visited by ancient Irish mission-
aries, 404, '5.

Icolmkille, I, or Hy, the same as Iona,
which see.

Idolatry, Abp. Browne's efforts to crush,
699, 716; encouraged by Abp. Cur-
wen, 741; who at length however
helps to suppress it, 750-2.
Iltutus, Welsh saint, account of, 121.
See also 124.

Images, their use in religion discounte
nanced by Sedulius, 393; favoured by
Dungal, 396, 582; esteemed in Id.
much, in the 12th cent., 585, miracu-
lous image of Christ in Christ Church,
Dublin, 587; Abp. Comyn's scanda-
lous use of, 613; Abp. Browne
preaches against the worship of them,
696, 699; removed from the Dublin
churches, 716; their removal a pre-
text for sacrilege, 719. See Idolatry,

sup.

Imar, (O'Haodhagain.) tutor to S. Ma-
lachy at Armagh, 457.

Inch, (or Inniscourcy,) monastery of,
founded, in the Co. Down, 568; sup-
plied with monks from England, 574.
Incendiaries, excommd. by Abp. Fitz
Ralph, are absolved by the friars,
1110.

Incest, charged on the ancient Irish, by
P. Alexander, 1088.

Incontinence, of the Irish of the 17th

cent. noticed by Sir F. Bacon, 870;
and by Bp. Downham, 905, 6; 140
clergymen, charged with, are sent by
L. O'Toole to Rome for absolution,
595; note on this proceeding of his,
1052 n. Vid. q. 814.

Independence of the early Irish Church
(see Irish bishops, Irish people, Supre-
macy, &c.) involved with that of the
British Ch. in the Paschal question,
201; origin of the circumstances lead-
ing to its overthrow, 418 seqq.
Indulgences, plenary, and remission of
sins, for all abettors of Rome's rebel-
lions in Id., 791, 794, 827, 837, 1264,
'74, 1392; a reward of forty days' in-
dulgence offered by a primate of ld.

to all who had should commit out-
rages on the Dean and Chapter of
Raphoe, 663; do. by his successor to
all contributors to the repairs of S.
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1111.
Infallibility of the Church of Rome, S.
Patrick's views of, 53; St. Cummian's
158, 165, 169, &c.; S. Columbanus's,
308 seqq; not held by the Irish of the
8th cent., 366.

Infant baptism, performed without
chrism, by the old Irish, 424.
Infant communion, the question con-
cerning, 426.

Iniscarra, St. Senan's school at, 73,

323.

Inniscatthy, the see of, 995 seqq.; St.

Senan's monastic foundation there, 73;
vid. q. 563.

Inisdamle, monastery of, ravaged by the
Danes or Nortmans, 381, 382.
Innisboffin, (Co. Mayo,) S. Colman's
monastery there, 186.

Innocent's (Pope) valor, 1146. See
Pope.

Inquisition, the, extends its influence to
Id., 650, 652, 656.

Institution of a Christian Man, its au-
thorship, &c., 1195; its views con.
cerning the power of nomination to
episcopal appointments, 1196.
Instructions, the, of S. Columbanus, 288
seqq., 968-981.

Interdict, nature and effects of an, 593;
laid on Dublin by John Cumin, 613;
by H. de Loundres, 621; by Fulk de
Saundford, 624, '5; denounced against
Henry VIII, 1202.

International hatred, an instrument of
Rome for keeping England and Id. in
order, 877.

Invercolpa, or Colp, monastery of, 569;
a cell to Llanthony, 575.
Inverdega, (Wicklow,) ravaged by the
Danes, 382.

Invocation of saints, not practised by S.

Patrick, 44; abuse of in Id. in the 8th
cent.. 356 seqq., 368; supported by
Dungal, 396; Abp. Browne's opposi-
tion to, 681, 696. See 368, 1421.
Iona, or Hy, St. Columbkille's settle-
ment in, 78, 83; how he became pos-
sessed of it, 84, ravaged by the Danes,
106, 379, 390; state of its ecclesiastical
ruins, 106; sends out missionaries to
Northumberland, 173 seqq., 987; their
attachment to the Irish Easter, 174
seqq.; their final abandonment of it,
185; curious transaction connected
with the place in the 12th cent., 614.
Iorwerth, son of Blethyn ap Convyn, his
intercourse with the Anglo-Normans,
1029, '30.

Ireland, anciently regarded as a school
of learning for Europe, 318 seqq., pas-
sim, 351, 356 n.; its ecclesiastical re-
cords not in every point of view satis-
factory, 358 seqq.; its ancient division
into five kingdoms, 378; granted by
P. Adrian to K. Henry II., 489; over-
spread with barbarism from the Da-
nish invasions, previously to the An-
glo-Norman do., 523 n., 539 n.; the
kingdom bestowed on Henry II. and
his son John, 604, 703; pauperism of,
in the 11th cent., described by Wm. of
Malmesbury, 1018; given to the Eng-
lish, partly under the influence of spite
against its people, 1048; taxed by the
Roman pontiffs, 1146 seqq.; destroyed
by P. Adrian's interference, 1121-3;
its poverty under papal taxation,
1150; the Catholic" faith in, essen-
tial to Rome's eccl. existence, 1204;
the royalties of, supposed to be the
pope's, 703, 1285, &c.

"Ireland, the Church of," and "Church
of England," use of the names, 920,
1415 seqq.

Ireland, a Brief Relation of, &c., attri-
buted to P. O'Sullevan, qd., 910 n.,
1253 n.

Finian, St., two of the name, 61; life of

S. Finian of Clonard, 67; of S. Finian
of Moville, 68; (see also, 76, 79, 80 ;)
scriptural knowledge, and school, of
the former saint, 68, 323, 324; his
visit to Britain, 122; note on the le-
gends of his life, 362.

Fintan, St., of Clonenagh, 71.

Fintan Munnu, or S. Munna, of Tagh-
mon, 170.

First fruits, (ecclesiastical tax,) neglected

among the old Irish, 462; stoppage of
their payment to Rome in England,
678, 1194; Irish Act assigning them to
the King of England, 685.

Fish, use of, by the old Irish monks, 272,
284.

Fisher, bp. of Rochester, his stedfast

support of papal supremacy, 679; he
assists in consecrating G. Browne for
the see of Dublin, 682.

Fitz Aldelm, Anglo-Norman adventurer,
504; appointed to treat between Hen-
ry II. and Rodk. O'Conor, 506; sent
over to Waterford with Adrian's bull,
527; appointed by Henry II. a joint
governor of Id. with others, 548, 600;
style of the writ appointing him to
that office, 560; founds the abbey of
St. Thomas, Dublin, 567.

Fitz Bernard, Robt., Anglo-Norman ad-
venturer in Id., 504.

Fitz Gerald, family, their origin, 1017,
&c. See Desmond,

Fitz Gerald, Maurice, a principal one of
the Anglo-Norman invaders, 497, 561.
Fitz Gerald, Ld. Thos., the form of his
excommunication noticed, 1427, 8; his
rebellion referred to, 1430.

Fitz Gerald, Thos., Franciscan friar, his
account of the state of Irish Romanism
in A.D. 1613, 1346 seqq.; vid. 1351.
Fitz Gibbon, Maurice R., murderous ti-
tular abp. of Cashel, 1215, 1372, '83;
pensioned for his services by the King
of Spain, 1436.

Fitz Hamon, Robt., his acquisitions in
Wales, 1023, '6, Wm. do., knighted,
1040.

Fitz John, Dominick, mayor of Galway,
chief founder of the college there, 1184.
Fitz John, Wm., appointed Abp. of
Cashel, (A.D. 1315,) 648 n.

Fitz Maurice, Jas., (or James Geraldine.

or

Fitzgerald,) rises in rebellion
against Q. Elizabeth's government.
776; applies to Rome and Spain for
aid, 777, 8; his ill success, ib.; prac-
tices beyond seas, 787; O'Sullevan's
notice of his proceedings, ib.-789;
picks up with Stukely, O'Melrian,
&c., 788; through the influence of P.
Gregory XIII., gets a gang of high-
waymen from Italy to come and fight
for religion in Id., 789; arrives in
Spain, 790; lands at Smerwick, ib.,
792; aided by a papal bull, 791; starts
on an expedition into the country
from Smerwick, 793; and is killed,
794; (see also 1252;) Gregory's bull
in his favour, 1262-4; Card. Galli's
letter to, on the eccl. affairs of Id.,
1265, '6; Camden's account of his re-
bellion, 1270; some additional reflec-
tions on the character of his interest
for the faith, 1369-71; be the first
who brought an European league to
bear upon Id., and with what motive,
1435.

Fitz Maurice, James, bp. of Ardfert, his