Leix, the modern Queen’s Co., without Upper Woods, Tinnahinch, or Portnahinch, 224, 313, 349, 350, 373, 385, 399, 400

Lennox, Earl of, 279-282, 330

Leo X., Pope, 293, 295, 299

Leverous, Thomas, Bishop of Kildare (1554-1559), and in the Papal succession till 1577, 217-219, 239, 367, 368, 379, 391, 392, 394

Liège, 219

Liffey River, 160, 170

Limehouse, 219

Limerick, 17, 18, 47, 50, 51, 56, 58, 66, 73, 85, 187, 191;

Parliament adjourned to, 200-202, 204, 228, 256;

Parliament prorogued to, 260, 265, 304, 321, 331, 333, 346, 378, 409

— County, 201

— see of, 35, 255, 288, 354, 392;

for Bishops, see Gillebert, Patrick, Harold, Turgeis, Brictius, Folan, Quin, Casey, Lacy.

Lindisfarne, 15, 17

Lisle, Viscount, 270

Lismore, 47

— see of, 35, 81;

for Bishops, see Malchus, O’Conarchy.

Lixnaw, 76

Lockwood, Thomas, Dean of Christ Church, Dublin (1543-1565), 358, 379, 391

Logan, a pirate, 330

Lomond, Loch, 17

Londonderry, 167

Longsword, William, 59

Louth, 67, 156, 170, 222, 240;

see Pale.

— John de Bermingham, Earl of, 67

— Barony of (Plunket), 76

— Oliver Plunket, first Baron of, 258, 263

Lovel, Lord, 103, 105

Loyola, Ignatius, 307, 308

Lucius III., Pope, 54

Ludlow Castle, 171

Lumley, Marmaduke, 316

Lusk, Co. Dublin, 29, 166

Luttrell, Sir Thomas, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1534-1554), 169, 223, 320, 384, 385

Luxueil, 6

Lynch, John, 239

— name of, 75

Lyons in France, 310

— in Kildare, Richard Aylmer of, 310

MacAlister, Rory, Bishop of the Isles, 280

MacAndrew, or Barrett, 71

MacArtane, or MacCartane, chief of Kinelarty, in Down, 78, 90, 353, 362

MacAveely, or Staunton, 71

MacBaron, or Fitzgerald, 71

MacBrien, chief of Arra, in Tipperary, 227, 242, 393

— chief of Coonagh, in Limerick, 265

MacBriens, the, 120

MacCarthies, the, 50, 72, 124, 220, 300

MacCarthy, Dermod, chief of Desmond and Cork, 47, 55, 56

— More, chief of Desmond, 268, 359, 360, 409

— Cormac Oge, chief of Muskerry, 133, 134, 180, 188, 190-192

— Teig MacCormac, son of Cormac Oge, chief of Muskerry, 268

— Reagh, chief of Carbery, 133, 180, 191, 218, 242, 268

— MacDonough, chief of Duhallow, 268

— Lady Eleanor;

see Fitzgerald.

— Mary, wife of the thirteenth Earl of Desmond, 242

— Honora, wife of the fifteenth Earl of Desmond, 345

— Connor, a priest, 386

MacCostello, or Nangle, 71

MacCragh, a rhymer, 218

MacDavid, or Burke, 71

MacDermot, chief of Moylurg (the northern half of Roscommon), 60, 69, 120, 140, 239, 374

MacDonnells, the, of Western Scotland and Antrim, 67, 147, 266, 271-274, 300, 360, 393, 410

MacDonnell, Alaster, chief of the Irish branch, 272

— James, chief of Antrim and Cantire, son of Alaster, 361, 398, 410

— Colla, brother of James, 410

— Angus, brother of James, 410

— Sorley Boy (yellow-haired Charles), 361, 410

MacEdmond, or Fitzgerald, 71

MacEgan, a chief in North Tipperary, 266

MacFabrene, or Wellesley, 71

MacFeoris, or Bermingham, 71

MacGeohegan, chief of Moycashel, in Westmeath, 90, 206, 211, 226, 326

MacGibbon, or Burke, 71

see Fitzgibbon and White Knight.

MacGillapatrick;

see Fitzpatrick.

MacJordan, or Dexter, 71

Maclean, Patrick, 280

MacMahon, chief of Irish Oriel or Monaghan, 63, 69, 90, 120, 133, 140, 263, 376

MacMaurice, or Prendergast, 71

MacMorris, David, 181

MacMurrough, Dermod, King of Leinster, 39-48

— Art, considered as King by the Leinster Irish, 85-87

— Cahir MacEncross, and Cahir MacArt, chiefs of their name;

see Kavanagh.

MacMurroughs, the, 57;

see Kavanaghs.

Macnamaras of Clare, the, 115, 271, 300, 306

MacOwney, Murtagh (an O’More), 155

MacPaddin, or Barrett, 71

MacPhilbin, or Burke, 71

Macquillin (of Welsh origin), chief of the Route, in Antrim, 77, 154, 266, 349, 353, 376

MacRaymond, or Burke, 71

MacRobert, or Burke, 71

MacRory, King of the Hebrides, 67

MacShane, Sir Gerald;

see Fitzgerald.

MacShoneen, or Burke, 71

MacSwiney, Edmond, captain of gallowglasses, 221, 230

MacSwineys, three septs in Donegal, 140, 393

MacThomaisin, or Fitzgerald, 71

MacThomas, or Fitzgerald, 71

MacThomin, or Barrett, 71

MacWalter, or Burke, 71

MacWilliam Uachtar, of Clanricarde, 71, 75, 85, 120, 140, 238, 256-258;

see Burke and Clanricarde.

— Iochtar, or Burke, of Mayo, 71, 140, 349, 375

Maelmordha, King of Leinster, 24-26

Magennis, chief of Iveagh, in Down, 90, 120, 127, 136, 232, 239, 240, 247, 263, 376

— Arthur and Donnell, knighted by Henry VIII., 270

— Arthur, Bishop of Dromore, 364

— Connor, Prior or Dean of Down, 353, 364

Magnus, King of Norway, 29

Maguire, chief of Fermanagh, 119

— Cuconnacht, chief of Fermanagh, 154, 162, 187

— Shane, chief of Fermanagh, 239, 377

Mahon, King of Munster, 22-23

Makeon, or Bisset, 71

Malachi, St., Archbishop of Armagh, 15, 35, 314

— King of Meath in 845, 18

— King of Meath and of Ireland, 21, 23;

deposed by Brian from the chief sovereignty, 24;

restored after Clontarf, 31

Malahide, 107

Malchus, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, 35

Mallow, 180, 191

Malo, St., 218

Malta, Knights of, 278

Mandeville family, 70

Man, Isle of, 28, 30, 33, 46

Mantua, 240, 241

Mape, name of, 240, 241

March, Edmond Mortimer, Earl of, 84

— Roger Mortimer, Earl of, 86

Marshal, William Earl, and Earl of Pembroke, 61, 63, 315

Maryborough, 331, 340, 399, 409

Mary of Lorraine, Queen Dowager of Scotland, 352

Mary’s Abbey, St., 163, 317, 320

Massingberd, Oswald, 401

Mattershed, name of, 413

Maude, Empress, 37

Maunsell, Sir Rice, 171, 173, 178

Maur Abbey, 293

Maynooth, 107, 169, 173-175, 177, 195, 225, 229, 238, 284, 347

Mayo, 24, 71, 218

Max, John, Bishop of Elphin, 294

Meath, kingdom and county (including Westmeath before the sixteenth century), 3, 24, 49, 65, 170, 239;

see Pale.

— see of, 289, 290;

for Bishops, see Payne, Rokeby, Inge, Wilson, Staples.

Medici, Catherine de’, 219, 279

Meelick, 402, 410

Mellifont Abbey, 40, 314, 316

Melville, Sir James, 345

Melvin, Lough, 141

Messanger, Philip, 114

Midleton, 190

Milan, Gonzago, Duke of, 219

Milford Haven, 42, 46, 55, 59

Minot, Thomas, Archbishop of Dublin in 1367, 81

Missett;

see Bissett.

Modreeny, 208, 227, 231, 242

Moira, 397

Monaghan, 154

Monaghan County, 56, 240

Monasterevan, 408

Monastermore, 314

Monasteroris, 226

Monluc, Bishop of Valence, 345, 348

Montmorenci, Hervey de;

see Hervey.

Moore, John, Bishop of Enaghdune, called Bishop of Galway, 388

Morlaix, 219

Morris, Sir John, Deputy in 1341, 78

Mortimer, Roger, 63, 66, 77, 86

Mothel, 320

Mountgarret, Richard Butler, created Viscount, second son of the eighth Earl of Ormonde, 207, 213, 221, 327, 386, 389, 393

Mountjoy, 271

Mount Norris, Lord, 286

Mourne Abbey, 133, 180

Mourne Mountains, 247

Moycashel, 206

Moylagh nunnery in Tipperary, 374

Moyle, Thomas, 208

Moyrie Pass, 78

Muckross, 300

Mull, Island of, 273

Munster Bishops, 293

— nobles, 267-268

— President proposed for, 378

— regulations for, 261

Murrough, Brian Borumha’s son, 25, 28

Musgraves in Ireland, 169, 176

Muskerry, 124, 180

Mynne, John, 250

Naas, 59

Nangle, or MacCostello, 71

— Richard, Bishop of Clonfert, 238, 289, 294, 306

Narragh, Castle and Barony of, 54, 87

Narrowater, 247

Navan, 240, 341

Neagh, Lough, 18, 164

Nenagh, 224, 335

Nesta Tudor, 41, 50, 71, 76

Newark, 105

Newcastle, in Wicklow, 83

Newcastle-on-Tyne, 373

Newport, in Tipperary, 409

Newry, 247, 297

Newtown Barry, 54, 210, 372

Nial Glundubh, 19

— of the nine hostages, 3, 19, 270

Nore River, 44

Norfolk, Hugh Bigot, Earl of, 63

— Thomas Howard, Duke of;

see Surrey.

Northalis, Richard, Bishop of Leighlin in 1290, 85

Northampton, 91

Northmen, Chapter II. passim

Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of, and Earl of Warwick, 286, 337, 358, 373, 384, 385

Northumbrians, 37

Norwegians, Chapter II. passim

Nugent, William, grantee of Delvin, 54

Nugents, the, 76, 144, 393, 397

— Barons of Delvin;

see Delvin.

O’Bogan, Laurence, 91

O’Boyle, chief of Boylagh in Donegal, 140

O’Brien, Donald or Donnell More, King of Limerick and North Munster, 50, 55, 315

— Donough Carbreach, son of Donnell More, 60

— William Carragh, 77

— Brian, chief of Thomond, 86

— Tirlogh Don, chief of Thomond, 181

— Connor, chief of Thomond, son of Tirlogh Don, 162, 173, 179, 191, 192, 200, 218, 227, 228, 249

— Tirlogh, son of Connor, 227

— Murrough, Donough, and Connor, first, second, and third Earls of Thomond;

see Thomond.

— Teig, 142, 182

— Matthew, 200

— Sir Donnell More, son of Connor and brother of the second Earl of Thomond, 393, 409, 410

— Tirlogh, Bishop of Killaloe in 1522, 140

O’Brien’s Bridge, 201-203

O’Briens, the, of Thomond or Clare, 70, 77, 115, 141, 151, 172, 181, 182, 239, 257, 258, 265, 300, 346