Culdees, the Glossary
The Culdees (lit) were members of ascetic Christian monastic and eremitical communities of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England in the Middle Ages.[1]
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427 relations: Abbán, Abbey of Kells, Abbot, Abbot of Iona, Abecedarian hymn, Aberdeenshire (historic), Abernethy Round Tower, Abernethy, Perth and Kinross, Adomnán, Aed (god), Afallach, Afon Braint, Aidan, Aidan of Lindisfarne, Ailbe of Emly, Alba, Alexander I of Scotland, An Leabhar Breac, Anam Cara, Anchorite, Anglesey, Anglicanism, Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, Anglo-Saxons, Annales Cambriae, Annals of Inisfallen, Annals of the Four Masters, Annals of Tigernach, Annwn, Antiphonary of Bangor, Aos Sí, Armagh, Atholl, Augustine of Canterbury, Augustinians, Avalon, Áed Dub mac Suibni, Áed Róin, Áedán mac Gabráin, Ímar, Óengus of Tallaght, Baden State Library, Bard, Bardsey Island, Battle of Bannockburn, Battle of Cúl Dreimhne, Bec mac Dé, Beckery, Beddgelert, Beekeeping in Ireland, ... Expand index (377 more) »
Abbán
Abbán of Corbmaic (Abbanus; d. 520?), also Eibbán or Moabba, was a saint and abbot.
Abbey of Kells
The Abbey of Kells (Mainistir Cheanannais) is a former monastery in Kells, County Meath, Ireland, north-west of Dublin.
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Abbot
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions.
Abbot of Iona
The Abbot of Iona was the head of Iona Abbey during the Middle Ages and the leader of the monastic community of Iona, as well as the overlord of scores of monasteries in both Scotland and Ireland, including Durrow, Kells and, until the Synod of Whitby, Lindisfarne.
Abecedarian hymn
An abecedarian hymn is a hymn that begins with the letter A, and each verse or clause following begins with the next letter of the alphabet.
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Aberdeenshire (historic)
Aberdeenshire or the County of Aberdeen (Coontie o Aiberdeen, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is a historic county and registration county of Scotland.
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Abernethy Round Tower
The Abernethy Round Tower is a stone-built Irish-style round tower which stands in School Wynd, at the edge of the village cemetery, in Abernethy, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
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Abernethy, Perth and Kinross
Abernethy is a village and former burgh in the Perth and Kinross council area and historic county of Perthshire, in the east central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Adomnán
Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona (Adamnanus, Adomnanus; 624 – 704), also known as Eunan (from), was an abbot of Iona Abbey (679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint.
Aed (god)
Aed, or Aodh, is the prince of the Daoine Sidhe and a god of the underworld in Irish mythology.
Afallach
Afallach (Old Welsh Aballac) is a man's name found in several medieval Welsh genealogies, where he is made the son of Beli Mawr.
Afon Braint
Afon Braint (River Braint) is a small tidal river on Anglesey, North Wales.
Aidan
Aidan or Aiden are anglicised versions of the Irish male given name Aodhán.
Aidan of Lindisfarne
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Naomh Aodhán; died 31 August 651) was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria.
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Ailbe of Emly
Saint Ailbe (Albeus, Alibeus), usually known in English as St Elvis (British/Welsh), Eilfyw or Eilfw, was regarded as the chief 'pre-Patrician' saint of Ireland (although his death was recorded in the early 6th-century).
Alba
Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland.
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Alexander I of Scotland
Alexander I (medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim; modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim; c. 1078 – 23 April 1124), posthumously nicknamed The Fierce, was the King of Alba (Scotland) from 1107 to his death.
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An Leabhar Breac
An Leabhar Breac ('The Speckled Book'; Middle Irish: An Lebar Brec), now less commonly Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre ('Great Book of Dun Doighre') or possibly erroneously, Leabhar Breac Mic Aodhagáin ('The Speckled Book of the MacEgans'), is a medieval Irish vellum manuscript containing Middle Irish and Hiberno-Latin writings.
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Anam Cara
Anam Cara is a phrase that refers to the Celtic concept of the "soul friend" in religion and spirituality.
Anchorite
In Christianity, an anchorite or anchoret (female: anchoress; from lit) is someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, or Eucharist-focused life.
Anglesey
Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales.
Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland
The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland took place during the late 12th century, when Anglo-Normans gradually conquered and acquired large swathes of land from the Irish, over which the kings of England then claimed sovereignty, all allegedly sanctioned by the papal bull Laudabiliter.
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Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
Annales Cambriae
The (Latin for Annals of Wales) is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales.
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Annals of Inisfallen
The Annals of Inisfallen (Annála Inis Faithlinn) are a chronicle of the medieval history of Ireland.
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Annals of the Four Masters
The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (Annála Ríoghachta Éireann) or the Annals of the Four Masters (Annála na gCeithre Máistrí) are chronicles of medieval Irish history.
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Annals of Tigernach
The Annals of Tigernach (abbr. AT, Annála Tiarnaigh) are chronicles probably originating in Clonmacnoise, Ireland.
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Annwn
Annwn, Annwfn, or Annwfyn (Annwvn, Annwyn, Annwyfn, Annwvyn, or Annwfyn) is the Otherworld in Welsh mythology.
Antiphonary of Bangor
The Antiphonary of Bangor (Antiphonarium Monasterii Benchorensis) is an ancient Latin manuscript, supposed to have been originally written at Bangor Abbey in modern-day Northern Ireland.
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Aos Sí
Aos sí (English approximation:; older form: aes sídhe) is the Irish name for a supernatural race in Celtic mythology—daoine sìth in Scottish Gaelic—comparable to fairies or elves.
Armagh
Armagh (Ard Mhacha,, "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish.
Atholl
Atholl or Athole (Athall; Old Gaelic Athfhotla) is a large historical division in the Scottish Highlands, bordering (in clockwise order, from north-east) Marr, Gowrie, Perth, Strathearn, Breadalbane, Lochaber, and Badenoch.
Augustine of Canterbury
Augustine of Canterbury (early 6th century – most likely 26 May 604) was a Christian monk who became the first archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597.
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Augustinians
Augustinians are members of several religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo.
Avalon
Avalon is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend.
Áed Dub mac Suibni
Áed Dub mac Suibni (died c. 588) was an Irish king of the Dál nAraidi in the over-kingdom of Ulaid (in modern Ulster).
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Áed Róin
Áed Róin mac Bécce Bairrche (died 735) was the Dál Fiatach ruler of the over-kingdom of Ulaid in Ireland.
Áedán mac Gabráin
Áedán mac Gabráin (lang), also written as Aedan, was a king of Dál Riata from 574 until c. 609 AD.
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Ímar
Ímar (Ívarr; died c. 873), synonymous with Ivar the Boneless, was a powerful Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century.
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Óengus of Tallaght
Óengus mac Óengobann, better known as Saint Óengus of Tallaght or Óengus the Culdee, was an Irish bishop, reformer and writer, who flourished in the first quarter of the 9th century and is held to be the author of the Félire Óengusso ("Martyrology of Óengus") and possibly the Martyrology of Tallaght.
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Baden State Library
The Baden State Library (Badische Landesbibliothek, BLB) is a large universal library in Karlsruhe.
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Bard
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
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Bardsey Island
Bardsey Island (Ynys Enlli), known as the legendary "Island of 20,000 Saints", is located off the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd.
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Battle of Bannockburn
The Battle of Bannockburn (Blàr Allt nam Bànag or Blàr Allt a' Bhonnaich) was fought on 23–24 June 1314, between the army of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, and the army of King Edward II of England, during the First War of Scottish Independence.
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Battle of Cúl Dreimhne
The battle of Cúl Dreimhne (also known as the Battle of the Book) took place in the 6th century in the túath of Cairbre Drom Cliabh (now County Sligo) in northwest Ireland.
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Bec mac Dé
Bec mac Dé was a legendary Irish prophet, known from saga literature surrounding the historical High King Diarmait mac Cerbaill and from the Irish Annals, where he is said to have died c. 553–7.
Beckery
Beckery (also Little Ireland) is an area within Glastonbury.
Beddgelert
Beddgelert is a village and community in the Snowdonia area of Gwynedd, Wales.
Beekeeping in Ireland
Beekeeping is first recorded in Ireland in the seventh century.
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Beltane
Beltane or Bealtaine (approximately) is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking the beginning of summer.
Benbulbin
Benbulbin (Binn Ghulbain), sometimes Benbulben or Ben Bulben, is a large flat-topped nunatak rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland.
Bernard (Bishop of St Davids)
Bernard was the first Norman bishop of St David's (1115–1148).
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Beuno
Saint Beuno (Bonus;Baring-Gould & Fisher, "Lives of the British Saints" (1907), quoted at, Early British Kingdoms website by David Nash Ford, accessed 6 February 2012 640), sometimes anglicized as Bono, was a 7th-century Welsh abbot, confessor, and saint.
Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore
The Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore was the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Down, Connor and Dromore; comprising all County Down and County Antrim, including the city of Belfast.
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Bishop of the Isles
The Bishop of the Isles or Bishop of Sodor was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of the Isles (or Sodor), one of Scotland's thirteen medieval bishoprics.
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Blathmac mac Con Brettan
Blathmac mac Con Brettan was an Irish poet and monk whose floruit was around 760.
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Boa Island
Boa Island is an island near the north shore of Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Bog body
A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
Book of Armagh
The Book of Armagh or Codex Ardmachanus (ar or 61) (Leabhar Ard Mhacha), also known as the Canon of Patrick and the Liber Ar(d)machanus, is a 9th-century Irish illuminated manuscript written mainly in Latin.
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Book of Taliesin
The Book of Taliesin (Llyfr Taliesin) is one of the most famous of Middle Welsh manuscripts, dating from the first half of the 14th century though many of the fifty-six poems it preserves are taken to originate in the 10th century or before.
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Branches of the Cenél Conaill
The Cenél Conaill, or "kindred of Conall", are a branch of the Northern Uí Néill, who claim descent from Conall Gulban, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, and allegedly the first Irish nobleman to convert to Christianity.
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Brandub mac Echach
Brandub mac Echach (died 605) was an Irish king of the Uí Cheinnselaig of Leinster.
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Breac Maodhóg
The Breac Maodhóg (English: Speckled Shrine of Saint Maedog)O'Toole, Fintan.
Brechin
Brechin (Breichin) is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland.
Bricius de Douglas
Bricius (sometimes anglicized as Brice, died 1222) was prior of Lesmahagow and afterward bishop of Moray (Gaelic epscop Muireb; Latin episcopus Moraviensis).
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Bridei IV
Bridei son of Der-Ilei (Bruide mac Derilei; died 706) was king of the Picts from 697 until 706.
Brigantes
The Brigantes were Ancient Britons who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England.
Brigantia (goddess)
Brigantia or Brigindo was a goddess in Celtic (Gallo-Roman and Romano-British) religion of Late Antiquity.
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Brigid
Brigid or Brigit (meaning 'exalted one'),Campbell, Mike See also Xavier Delamarre, brigantion / brigant-, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (Éditions Errance, 2003) pp.
Brigid of Kildare
Saint Brigid of Kildare or Saint Brigid of Ireland (Naomh Bríd; Classical Irish: Brighid; Brigida; 525) is the patroness saint (or 'mother saint') of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with Patrick and Columba.
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Cadoc
Saint Cadoc or Cadog (Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Catawg or Catwg; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage.
Cadwallon ap Cadfan
Cadwallon ap Cadfan (died 634)A difference in the interpretation of Bede's dates has led to the question of whether Cadwallon was killed in 634 or the year earlier, 633.
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Canaan
Canaan (Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 –; כְּנַעַן –, in pausa כְּנָעַן –; Χανααν –;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes.
Canon regular
The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are priests who live in community under a rule (and κανών, kanon, in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology.
Canterbury
Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974.
Cantref Gwarthaf (Dyfed)
Location of Cantref Gwarthaf and its commotes (dark green) in southwest Wales Cantref Gwarthaf was the largest of the seven cantrefi of Dyfed in southwest Wales.
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Carpow
Carpow is a diffuse hamlet in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
Carpow Roman Fort
The Roman Fort of Carpow was situated at the confluence of the rivers Tay and Earn in what is now Scotland.
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Cassiterides
The Cassiterides (Κασσιτερίδες, meaning "Tin Islands", from κασσίτερος, kassíteros "tin") are an ancient geographical name used to refer to a group of islands whose precise location is unknown, but which was believed to be situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe.
Castledermot
Castledermot is an inland town in the south-east of Ireland in County Kildare, about from Dublin, and from the town of Carlow.
Cathach of St. Columba
The Cathach of St.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Causantín mac Fergusa
Causantín or Constantín mac Fergusa ("Constantine son of Fergus") (789–820) was king of the Picts, in modern Scotland, from 789 until 820.
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Càrn na Marbh
Càrn na Marbh (meaning "mound" or "cairn of the dead") is a re-used Bronze Age tumulus, located in Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland.
Côr Tewdws
Côr Tewdws or Bangor Tewdws (meaning "Choir" or "College" of Theodosius) is a fictional Romano-British ecclesiastical college that in the 18th and 19th centuries was understood to have been the predecessor of the historically attested 6th century College and Abbey of Saint Illtud at what is now Llantwit Major in Glamorgan in Wales.
Ceirt
Ceirt (Queirt) ᚊ (Primitive Irish cert) is a letter of the Ogham alphabet, transcribed as Q. It expresses the Primitive Irish labiovelar phoneme.
Celliwig
Celliwig, Kelliwic or Gelliwic is perhaps the earliest named location for the court of King Arthur.
Celtic Britons
The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).
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Celtic Christianity
Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages.
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Celtic Otherworld
In Celtic mythology, the Otherworld is the realm of the deities and possibly also the dead.
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Celtic Rite
The term "Celtic Rite" is applied to the various liturgical rites used in Celtic Christianity in Britain, Ireland and Brittany and the monasteries founded by St. Columbanus and Saint Catald in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy during the Early Middle Ages.
Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Christianity in Medieval Scotland
Christianity in medieval Scotland includes all aspects of Christianity in the modern borders of Scotland in the Middle Ages.
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Chrodegang
Chrodegang (Chrodogangus; Chrodegang, Hruotgang;Spellings of his name in (Latin) primary sources are extremely varied: Chrodegangus, Grodegandus, Grodegangus, Grodogangus, Chrodogandus, Krodegandus, Chrodegrangus, Chrotgangus, Ruotgangus, Droctegangus, Chrodegand, and Sirigangus. In English it is also found as Godegrand, Gundigran, Ratgang, Rodigang, and Sirigang.
Chronicon Scotorum
Chronicon Scotorum, also known as Chronicum Scotorum, is a medieval Irish chronicle.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland (The Kirk o Scotland; Eaglais na h-Alba) is a Presbyterian denomination of Christianity that holds the status of the national church in Scotland.
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Church of St Mary on the Rock
The Church of St Mary on the Rock or St Mary's Collegiate Church, was a secular college of priests based on the seaward side of St Andrews Cathedral, St Andrews, just beyond the precinct walls.
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Ciarán of Saigir
Ciarán of Saigir (5th century &ndash), also known as Ciarán mac Luaigne or Saint Kieran (Cieran), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and is considered the first saint to have been born in Ireland,Catholic Online.
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Cistercians
The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.
Clan Livingstone
The Clan Livingstone, also known as Clan MacLea, is a Highland Scottish clan, which was traditionally located in the district of Lorn in Argyll, Scotland, and is seated on the Isle of Lismore.
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Clan MacDuff
Clan MacDuff or Clan Duff is a Lowland Scottish clan.
Clatchard Craig
The fort of Clatchard Craig was located on a hill of the same name by the Tay.
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Clondalkin
Clondalkin is a suburban town in County Dublin, west of Dublin city centre, Ireland, under the administrative jurisdiction of South Dublin.
Clones, County Monaghan
Clones (meaning 'meadow of Eois') is a small town in the west of County Monaghan in Ireland.
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Clonmacnoise
Clonmacnoise (Irish: Cluain Mhic Nóis) is a ruined monastery situated in County Offaly in Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone, founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon.
Clynderwen
Clynderwen (Clunderwen) is a rural linear village and community, historically in Carmarthenshire in Wales, but administered as part of Pembrokeshire.
Clynnog Fawr
Clynnog Fawr, often simply called "Clynnog", is a village and community on the north coast of Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.
Coarb
A coarb, from the Old Irish comarbae (Modern Irish: comharba, hērēs), meaning "heir" or "successor", was a distinctive office of the medieval Celtic Church among the Gaels of Ireland and Scotland.
Columba
Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.
Columbidae
Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons.
Conmaicne
The Conmaicne (Modern Conmhaicne) were a people of early Ireland, perhaps related to the Laigin, who dispersed to various parts of Ireland.
Conn of the Hundred Battles
Conn Cétchathach, or Conn of the Hundred Battles, son of Fedlimid Rechtmar, was a legendary High King of Ireland who is claimed to be the ancestor of the Connachta, and through his descendant Niall Noígiallach, the Uí Néill dynasties, which dominated Ireland in the early Middle Ages.
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Connacht
Connacht or Connaught (Connachta or Cúige Chonnacht), is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland.
Coriondi
The Coriondi (Κοριονδοί) were a people of early Ireland, referred to in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as living in southern Leinster.
Corionototae
The Corionototae were a group of Ancient Britons apparently inhabiting what is now Northern England about whom very little is known.
County Tipperary
County Tipperary (Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland.
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Crínán of Dunkeld
Crínán of Dunkeld, also called Crinan the Thane (c. 975–1045), was the hereditary abbot of the monastery of Dunkeld, and perhaps the Mormaer of Atholl.
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Crom Cruach
Crom Cruach (Cromm Crúaich) was a pagan god of pre-Christian Ireland.
Cronus
In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (or, from Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky).
Croom, County Limerick
Croom is a village in County Limerick, Ireland.
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Cruciform
Cruciform is a term for physical manifestations resembling a common cross or Christian cross.
Cruithnechán
Cruithnechán (Cruithneachán), also known as Cruithnechan, Crunathan, and Cronaghan, was an Irish saint from around the 6th century, known as one of the mentors of Columba, who founded the famous monastery at Iona.
Cruthin
The Cruthin (Cruithnig or Cruithni; Cruithne) were a people of early medieval Ireland.
Culdees
The Culdees (lit) were members of ascetic Christian monastic and eremitical communities of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England in the Middle Ages.
Culhwch and Olwen
Culhwch and Olwen (Culhwch ac Olwen) is a Welsh tale that survives in only two manuscripts about a hero connected with Arthur and his warriors: a complete version in the Red Book of Hergest,, and a fragmented version in the White Book of Rhydderch,.
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Culross Abbey
Culross Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Culross, Scotland, headed by the Abbot or Commendator of Culross.
Cumbric
Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in what became the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (now combined as Cumbria), and also Northumberland and northern parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands.
Cunedda
Cunedda ap Edern, also called Cunedda Wledig (reigned – c. 460), was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the Royal dynasty of Gwynedd, one of the very oldest of Western Europe.
Cybele
Cybele (Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubileya/Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava; Κυβέλη Kybele, Κυβήβη Kybebe, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük.
D. A. Binchy
Daniel Anthony Binchy (1899–1989) was a scholar of Irish linguistics and early Irish law.
Dallán Forgaill
Eochaid mac Colla (560 – 640), better known as Saint Dallán or Dallán Forgaill (Dallán Forchella; Dallanus Forcellius; Primitive Irish: Dallagnas Worgēllas), was an early Christian Irish poet and saint known as the writer of the "Amra Coluim Chille" ("Elegy of Saint Columba") and, traditionally, "Rop Tú Mo Baile" ("Be Thou My Vision").
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David I of Scotland
David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern Gaelic: Daibhidh I mac Chaluim; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th century ruler and saint who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153.
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Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
Dáithí Ó hÓgáin (13 June 1949 – 11 December 2011), Irish folklorist, was professor of Irish folklore at University College Dublin.
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Dál Fiatach
Dál Fiatach was a Gaelic dynastic-grouping and the name of their territory in the north-east of Ireland, which lasted throughout the Middle Ages until their demise in the 13th century at the hands of Normans.
Dál nAraidi
Dál nAraidi ("Araide's part") or Dál Araide, sometimes latinised as Dalaradia or anglicised as Dalaray, was a Cruthin kingdom, or possibly a confederation of Cruthin tribes, in north-eastern Ireland during the Middle Ages.
Dál Riata
Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and north-eastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel.
Déisi
The Déisi were a social class in Ireland between the ancient and early medieval period.
Dísert Óengusa
Dísert Óengusa is a medieval hermitage and National Monument located in County Limerick, Ireland.
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Declán of Ardmore
Declán of Ardmore (Declán mac Eircc; Deaglán, Deuglán; Declanus; died 5th century AD), also called Déclán, was an early Irish saint of the Déisi Muman, who was remembered for having converted the Déisi in the late 5th century and for having founded the monastery of Ardmore (Ard Mór) in what is now County Waterford.
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Deer
A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).
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The Demetae were a Celtic people of Iron Age and Roman period, who inhabited modern Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales.
Derrynaflan Church
Derrynaflan Church is a Medieval church and National Monument located in County Tipperary, Ireland.
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Devenish Island
Devenish or Devinish is an island in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
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Diarmait mac Cerbaill
Diarmait mac Cerbaill (died) was King of Tara or High King of Ireland.
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Diarmait Mac Murchada
Diarmait Mac Murchada (Modern Irish: Diarmaid Mac Murchadha; anglicised as Dermot MacMurrough or Dermot MacMurphy) (c. 1110 – c. 1 May 1171), was King of Leinster in Ireland from 1127 to 1171.
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Diarmait of Iona
Diarmait of Iona was Abbot of Iona (814–832?).
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Diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
Diocese of Sodor and Man
The Diocese of Sodor and Man is a diocese of the Church of England.
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Diocese of the Isles
The Diocese of the Isles, also known as the Diocese of Suðreyar, or the Diocese of Sodor, was one of the dioceses of medieval Norway.
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Dissolution of the monasteries
The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.
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Doolough
Doolough is a coastal townland covering an area of approximately in the parish of Kiltane, Erris in north County Mayo, Ireland.
Druid
A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures.
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) (Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a statutory independent research institute in Ireland.
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Dubricius
Dubricius or Dubric (Dyfrig; Norman-French: Devereux; c. 465 – c. 550) was a 6th-century British ecclesiastic venerated as a saint.
Dullahan
The Dullahan (Irish: Dubhlachan; dúlachán) is a type of legendary creature in Irish folklore.
Dumnonia
Dumnonia is the Latinised name for a Brythonic kingdom that existed in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries CE in the more westerly parts of present-day South West England.
Dunkeld
Dunkeld (Dunkell, from Dùn Chailleann, "fort of the Caledonians") is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
Dunkeld Cathedral
Dunkeld Cathedral is a Church of Scotland place of worship which stands on the north bank of the River Tay in Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
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Dyfed
Dyfed is a preserved county in southwestern Wales.
Earl of Fife
The Earl of Fife or Mormaer of Fife was the ruler of the province of Fife in medieval Scotland, which encompassed the modern counties of Fife and Kinross.
Early Irish law
Early Irish law, also called Brehon law (from the old Irish word breithim meaning judge), comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Edward Gwynn
Edward John Gwynn (1 April 1868 – 10 February 1941) was an Irish academic who served as the 36th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1927 to 1937.
Einion Frenin
Saint Einion Frenin (Welsh: old Enniaun, mod. Sant Einion or Engan Frenin, "Saint Einion the King"; Ennianus or Anianus) was a late 5thAbersoch Virtual Guide.
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.
Emly
Emly or Emlybeg is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Eric P. Hamp
Eric Pratt Hamp (November 16, 1920 – February 17, 2019) was an American linguist widely respected as a leading authority on Indo-European linguistics, with particular interests in Celtic languages and Albanian.
Esker Riada
The Esker Riada (Eiscir Riada) is a system of eskers that stretch across the middle of Ireland, between Dublin and Galway.
Féchín of Fore
Saint Féchín or Féichín (died 665), also known as Mo-Ecca, was a 7th-century Irish saint, chiefly remembered as the founder of the monastery at Fore (Fobar), County Westmeath.
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Fénius Farsaid
Fénius Farsaid (also Phoeniusa, Phenius, Féinius; Farsa, Farsaidh, many variant spellings) is a legendary king of Scythia who appears in different versions of Irish mythology.
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Féth fíada
Féth fíada (féth fíada, féth fiada, feth fiadha, fé fíada, faeth fiadha) is a magical mist or veil in Irish mythology, which members of the Tuatha Dé Danann use to enshroud themselves, rendering their presence invisible to human eyesight.
Fedelmid mac Crimthainn
Fedelmid mac Crimthainn was the King of Munster between 820 and 846.
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Ferns, County Wexford
Ferns (short for Fearna Mór Maedhóg) is a historic town in north County Wexford, Ireland.
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Fianna
Fianna (singular Fian; Fèinne) were small warrior-hunter bands in Gaelic Ireland during the Iron Age and early Middle Ages.
Fife
Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.
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Finglas
Finglas is a northwestern outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Finnian of Movilla
Finnian of Movilla (–589) was an Irish Christian missionary.
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Fionn mac Cumhaill
Fionn mac Cumhaill (Scottish Gaelic:; Old and Find or Finn mac Cumail or mac Umaill), often anglicized Finn McCool or MacCool, is a hero in Irish mythology, as well as in later Scottish and Manx folklore.
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Fortingall
Fortingall (Fartairchill) (lit. "Escarpment Church"—i.e. "church at the foot of an escarpment or steep slope") is a small village in Glen Lyon, Perthshire, Scotland.
Fortingall Yew
The Fortingall Yew is an ancient European yew (Taxus baccata) in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland.
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Freeman on the land movement
The freeman on the land movement (sometimes spelled freeman-on-the-land or abbreviated as FOTL), also known as the freemen of the land, the freemen movement, or simply freemen, is a loose group of individuals who adhere to pseudolegal concepts and conspiracy theories implying that they are bound by statute laws only if they consent to those laws.
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Gaels
The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Galli
A gallus (pl. galli) was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele (Magna Mater in Rome) and her consort Attis, whose worship was incorporated into the state religious practices of ancient Rome.
Galloway
Galloway (Gallowa; Gallovidia) is a region in southwestern Scotland comprising the historic counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.
Gangani
The Gangani (Γαγγανοι) were a people of ancient Ireland who are referred to in Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography as living in the south-west of the island, probably near the mouth of the River Shannon, between the Auteini to the north and the Uellabori to the south.
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Geoffrey Moorhouse, FRGS, FRSL (29 November 1931 – 26 November 2009) was an English journalist and author.
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Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis; Gerallt Cymro; Gerald de Barri) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian.
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Gildas
Gildas (English pronunciation:, Breton: Gweltaz) — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and Gildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons.
Glan Conwy
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, usually shortened to Glan Conwy, is a village, community and electoral ward in Conwy County Borough, Wales.
Glasnevin
Glasnevin (also known as Glas Naedhe, meaning "stream of O'Naeidhe" after a local stream and an ancient chieftain) is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the River Tolka.
Glastonbury Tor
Glastonbury Tor is a tor near Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless St Michael's Tower, a Grade I listed building.
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Gobán Saor
The Gobán Saor was a highly skilled smith or architect in Irish history and legend.
Godfrey Higgins
Godfrey Higgins (30 January 1772 in Owston, Yorkshire – 9 August 1833 in Cambridge) was an English magistrate and landowner, a prominent advocate for social reform, historian, and antiquarian.
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Gorsedd Cymru
Gorsedd Cymru, or simply the Gorsedd or the Orsedd (yr Orsedd), is a society of Welsh-language poets, writers, musicians and others who have contributed to the Welsh language and to public life in Wales.
Great Book of Lecan
The Great Book of Lecan or simply Book of Lecan (Leabhar (Mór) Leacáin) (RIA, 23 P 2) is a late-medieval Irish manuscript written between 1397 and 1418 in Castle Forbes, Lecan (Lackan, Leckan; Irish Leacán), in the territory of Tír Fhíacrach, near modern Enniscrone, County Sligo.
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Gregorian mission
The Gregorian missionJones "Gregorian Mission" Speculum p. 335 or Augustinian missionMcGowan "Introduction to the Corpus" Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature p. 17 was a Christian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 to convert Britain's Anglo-Saxons.
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Hector Boece
Hector Boece (also spelled Boyce or Boise; 1465–1536), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and the first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen, a predecessor of the University of Aberdeen.
Hen Ogledd
Yr Hen Ogledd, meaning the Old North, is the historical region that was inhabited by the Brittonic people of sub-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages, now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands, alongside the fellow Brittonic Celtic Kingdom of Elmet.
Henfynyw
Henfynyw is a village and community in the county of Ceredigion, Wales, just outside Aberaeron, and is 69.6 miles (111.9 km) from Cardiff and 183.5 miles (295.4 km) from London.
Hermit
A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion.
Hiberno-Latin
Hiberno-Latin, also called Hisperic Latin, was a learned style of literary Latin first used and subsequently spread by Irish monks during the period from the sixth century to the tenth century.
High king
A high king is a king who holds a position of seniority over a group of other kings, without the title of emperor.
Hill of Tara
The Hill of Tara (Teamhair or Cnoc na Teamhrach) is a hill and ancient ceremonial and burial site near Skryne in County Meath, Ireland.
Hispania
Hispania (Hispanía; Hispānia) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.
Holly
Ilex or holly is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.
Holy See
The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.
House-shaped shrine
House-shaped shrine (or church or tomb-shaped shrines)Crawford (1923), p. 82 are early medieval portable metal reliquary formed in the shape of the roof of a rectangular building.
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Ian Sturrock
Ian Sturrock is a rescuer and restorer of orchards and apple trees, saving apple varieties from extinction.
Ibar of Beggerin
Ibar mac Lugna, whose name is also given as Iberius or Ivor, was an early Irish saint, patron of Beggerin Island, and bishop.
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Ictis
Ictis, or Iktin, is or was an island described as a tin trading centre in the Bibliotheca historica of the Sicilian-Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC.
Illtud
Illtud (also spelled Illtyd, Eltut, and, in Latin, Hildutus), also known as Illtud Farchog or Illtud the Knight, is venerated as the abbot teacher of the divinity school, Bangor Illtyd, located in Llanilltud Fawr (Llantwit Major) in Glamorgan, Wales.
Indract of Glastonbury
Indract or Indracht was an Irish saint who, along with his companions, was venerated at Glastonbury Abbey, a monastery in the county of Somerset in south-western England.
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Inis Cathaigh
Inis Cathaigh or Scattery Island is an island in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland, off the coast of Kilrush, County Clare.
Inishmurray
Inishmurray is an uninhabited island situated off the coast of County Sligo, Ireland.
Iona
Iona (Ì Chaluim Chille, sometimes simply Ì) is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.
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Iona Abbey
Iona Abbey is an abbey located on the island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Irish Texts Society
The Irish Texts Society (Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge) was founded in 1898 to promote the study of Irish literature.
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Isle of Bute
The Isle of Bute (Buit; Eilean Bhòid or An t-Eilean Bòdach), known as Bute, is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom.
James Aitken Wylie
James Aitken Wylie (9 August 1808 – 1 May 1890) was a Scottish historian of religion and Presbyterian minister.
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James Carney (scholar)
James Patrick Carney (17 May 1914 – 7 July 1989) was a noted Irish Celtic scholar.
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John Rhŷs
Sir John Rhŷs, (also spelled Rhys; 21 June 1840 – 17 December 1915) was a Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, Celticist and the first professor of Celtic at Oxford University.
John T. Koch
John Thomas Koch is an American academic, historian, and linguist who specializes in Celtic studies, especially prehistory, and the early Middle Ages.
Justiciar of Scotia
The Justiciar of Scotia (in Norman-Latin, Justiciarus Scotie) was the most senior legal office in the High Medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
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King Arthur
King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur, Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain.
Kingarth
Kingarth (Cenn Garad; Ceann a' Gharaidh) is a historic village and parish on the Isle of Bute, off the coast of south-western Scotland.
Kingdom of Dyfed
The Kingdom of Dyfed, one of several Welsh petty kingdoms that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain in southwest Wales, was based on the former territory of the Demetae (modern Welsh Dyfed).
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Kingdom of Gwent
Gwent (Guent) was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk.
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Kingdom of Scotland
The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English.
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Kingdom of the Rhinns
Na Renna, or the Kingdom of the Rhinns, was a Norse-Gaelic lordship which appears in 11th century records.
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Korybantes
According to Greek mythology, the Korybantes or Corybantes (also Corybants) (Κορύβαντες) were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing.
Laigin
The Laigin, modern spelling Laighin, were a Gaelic population group of early Ireland.
Laisrén mac Nad Froích
Saint Laisrén mac Nad Froích (died 564), or Laisrén of Devenish and Lasserian, known as Mo Laisse, was the patron saint of Devenish Island in Lough Erne, near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, in the present diocese of Clogher.
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Laity
In religious organizations, the laity consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of religious orders, e.g. a nun or a lay brother.
Leath Cuinn and Leath Moga
Leath Cuinn (Conn's Half) and Leath Moga (Mug's half) are legendary ancient divisions of Ireland, respectively north and south of a line corresponding to the Esker Riada running east–west from Dublin Bay to Galway Bay.
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Lebor Gabála Érenn
Lebor Gabála Érenn (literally "The Book of the Taking of Ireland"; Modern Irish spelling: Leabhar Gabhála Éireann, known in English as The Book of Invasions) is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages.
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Lebor na hUidre
(LU) or the Book of the Dun Cow (MS 23 E 25) is an Irish vellum manuscript dating to the 12th century.
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Leinster
Leinster (Laighin or Cúige Laighean) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the southeast of Ireland.
Liath Macha and Dub Sainglend
Liath Macha ("grey of Macha") and Dub Sainglend ("black of Saingliu") are the two chariot-horses of Cúchulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
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Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.
List of earth deities
This is a list of earth deities.
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List of kings of Connacht
The Kings of Connacht were rulers of the cóiced (variously translated as portion, fifth, province) of Connacht, which lies west of the River Shannon, Ireland.
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List of kings of Dál Riata
This is a list of the kings of Dál Riata, a kingdom of Irish origin which was located in Scotland and Ireland.
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List of kings of Leinster
The kings of Leinster (Rí Laighín) ruled from the establishment of Leinster during the Irish Iron Age until the 17th century Early Modern Ireland.
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List of rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles
The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD.
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Llan (placename)
Llan and its variants (lan; lann; lhan; Irish and lann) are a common element of Celtic placenames in the British Isles and Brittany, especially of Welsh toponymy.
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Llantwit Major
Llantwit Major (Llanilltud Fawr) is a town and community in Wales on the Bristol Channel coast.
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Llawhaden
Llawhaden (Llanhuadain) is a village, parish and community in mid-Pembrokeshire, West Wales, historically in the Hundred of Dungleddy (Daugleddyf).
Llŷn Peninsula
The Llŷn Peninsula (Penrhyn Llŷn or italic) extends into the Irish Sea from North West Wales, south west of the Isle of Anglesey.
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Llŷr
Llŷr (Llŷr Llediaith; Lleddiaith meaning 'half-speech' or 'half-language') is a figure in Welsh mythology, probably originally a deity, probably derived from Irish Ler ('the Sea'), father of Manannán mac Lir.
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Loch Leven (Kinross)
Loch Leven (Loch Lìobhann) is a fresh water loch located immediately to the east of the burgh of Kinross in Perth and Kinross council area, central Scotland.
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Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster (Uilebheist Loch Nis), affectionately known as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
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Lough Erne
Lough Erne is the name of two connected lakes in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Loughcrew
Loughcrew or Lough Crew is an area of historical importance near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland.
Mabinogion
The Mabinogion are the earliest Welsh prose stories, and belong to the Matter of Britain.
Mabon ap Modron
Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh and wider Brythonic literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band.
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Macha
Macha was a sovereignty goddess of ancient Ireland associated with the province of Ulster, particularly the sites of Navan Fort (Eamhain Mhacha) and Armagh (Ard Mhacha), which are named after her.
Madron (saint)
Saint Madron or Maddern was a Pre-Congregational Saint, monk and hermit.
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Maelgwn Gwynedd
Maelgwn Gwynedd (Maglocunus; died c. 547)Based on Phillimore's (1888) reconstruction of the dating of the Annales Cambriae (A Text).
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Magnus VI
Magnus Haakonsson (Magnús Hákonarson, Modern Norwegian; 1 (or 3) May 1238 – 9 May 1280) was King of Norway (as Magnus VI) from 1263 to 1280 (junior king from 1257).
Maigh Rein
The barony of Mohill (Maothail, historically Conmhaícne Maigh Réin) is an ancient barony in County Leitrim, Ireland.
Malcolm (given name)
Malcolm, Malcom, Máel Coluim, or Maol Choluim is a Scottish Gaelic given name meaning "devotee of Saint Columba".
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Malcolm III of Scotland
Malcolm III (label; Maol Chaluim mac Dhonnchaidh; c. 1031–13 November 1093) was King of Alba from 1058 to 1093.
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Manannán mac Lir
italic or italic, also known as italic ('son of the Sea'), is a sea god, warrior, and king of the otherworld in Gaelic (Irish, Manx, and Scottish) mythology who is one of the italic.
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Manawydan
Manawydan fab Llŷr is a figure of Welsh mythology, the son of Llŷr and the brother of Brân the Blessed and Brânwen.
Marmaduke (name)
Marmaduke is a masculine given name.
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Martyrology
A martyrology is a catalogue or list of martyrs and other saints and beati arranged in the calendar order of their anniversaries or feasts.
Martyrology of Tallaght
The Martyrology of Tallaght, which is closely related to the Félire Óengusso or Martyrology of Óengus the Culdee, is an eighth- or ninth-century Irish-language martyrology, a list of saints and their feast days assembled by Máel Ruain and/or Óengus the Culdee at Tallaght Monastery, near Dublin.
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Martyrs of Iona
The martyrs of Iona were a group of 68 Celtic Christian monks who lived at Iona Abbey (on the island of Iona, Scotland) and were massacred there in the early ninth century.
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Máedóc of Ferns
Saint Máedóc of Ferns (6th & 7th century), also known as Saint Aidan (Áedan; Aeddan; Aidanus and Edanus), Saint Madocnationalchurchestrust.org or Saint Mogue (Mo Aodh Óg), was an Irish saint who was the first Bishop of Ferns in County Wexford and the founder of thirty churches.
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Máel Ísu
Máel Ísu, Maol Íosa or Máel Íosa, meaning devotee of Jesus, Latinised as Malise, may refer to.
Máel Brigte
Máel Brigte is a Pictish or Irish name meaning "devotee of St Brigid".
Máel Muire mac Céilechair
Máel Muire ("servant of Mary") mac Céilechair (died 1106) was an Irish cleric of the monastery of Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, and one of the principal scribes of the manuscript Lebor na hUidre.
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Máel Ruain
Ruain Burrows (died 792) was founder and abbot-bishop of the monastery of Tallaght (County Dublin, Ireland).
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, sometimes known as Michael O'Clery, was an Irish chronicler, scribe and antiquary and chief author of the Annals of the Four Masters, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, and Peregrinus Ó Duibhgeannain.
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Mead
Mead, also called hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops.
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Medb
Medb, later spelled Meadhbh, Méabh(a) and Méibh, and often anglicised as Maeve, is queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
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Melisseus
In Greek mythology, Melisseus (Ancient Greek: Μελισσεύς means 'bee-man' or 'honey-man'), the father of the nymphs Adrasteia, Ida and Althaea who were nurses of the infant Zeus on Crete.
Menai Strait
The Menai Strait is a strait which separates the island of Anglesey from Gwynedd, on the mainland of Wales.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Milesians (Irish)
The Milesians or sons of Míl are the final race to settle in Ireland, according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, a medieval Irish Christian history.
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Military history of Denmark
The Military timeline of Denmark is centered around an involvement in wars in Northern Europe since 793 and, recently, elsewhere.
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Mobhí Clárainech
Mobhí Clárainech (also Berchan; died 544) was an Irish early monastic saint, counted as one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.
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Modomnoc
St.
Modron
Modron ("mother") is a figure in Welsh tradition, known as the mother of the hero Mabon ap Modron.
Molana Abbey
Molana Abbey (Mainistir Mhaolanfaidh) is a 6th-century Abbey located on the south coast of Ireland in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, near Youghal.
Monaincha Church
Monaincha Church is a 12th-century church in Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland.
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Monastic cell
A cell is a small room used by a hermit, monk, nun or anchorite to live and as a devotional space.
Monasticism
Monasticism, also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work.
Monymusk
Monymusk (Monadh Musga) is a planned village in the Marr area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Monymusk Priory
Monymusk Priory was a house of Augustinian canons based at Monymusk in Mar, Aberdeenshire.
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Monymusk Reliquary
The Monymusk Reliquary is an eighth century Scottish house-shape reliquaryMoss (2014), p. 286 made of wood and metal characterised by an Insular fusion of Gaelic and Pictish design and Anglo-Saxon metalworking, probably by Ionan monks.
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Moot hill
A moot hill or mons placiti (statute hill) is a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place, as a moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, also traditionally to decide local issues.
Mother goddess
A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator- and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties thereof in a maternal relation with humanity or other gods.
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Muimne, Luigne and Laigne
Muimne, Luigne and Laigne, sons of Érimón by his wife Odba, were, according to medieval Irish legends and historical traditions, joint High Kings of Ireland following the death of their father.
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Muirchertach mac Muiredaig (Mac Ercae)
Muirchertach mac Muiredaig (died c. 534), called Mac Ercae, Muirchertach Macc Ercae and Muirchertach mac Ercae, was said to be High King of Ireland in the 6th century.
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Munster
Munster (an Mhumhain or Cúige Mumhan) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south of the island.
Muthill
Muthill, pronounced, is a village in Perth and Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland.
Narberth Hundred
Pembrokeshire showing Narberth Hundred The Hundred of Narberth was a hundred in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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Narberth, Pembrokeshire
Narberth (Arberth) is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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Navan Fort
Navan Fort (Emain Macha; Modern Irish) is an ancient ceremonial monument near Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Nechtan mac Der-Ilei
Naiton son of Der-Ilei (Nechtan mac Derilei; died 732), also called Naiton son of Dargart (Nechtan mac Dargarto), was king of the Picts between 706–724 and between 728–729.
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Nechtan Morbet
Nechtan, son of Erip, was the king of the Picts from 456 to 480.
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Nessa Ní Shéaghdha
Nessa Ní Shéaghdha or Nessa O (14 March 1916 – 11 April 1993) was an Irish Celtic Studies scholar.
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Niall of the Nine Hostages
Niall Noígíallach (Old Irish "having nine hostages"), or Niall of the Nine Hostages, was a legendary, semi-historical Irish king who was the ancestor of the Uí Néill dynasties that dominated Ireland from the 6th to the 10th centuries.
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Ninian
Ninian is a Christian saint, first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland.
Norse–Gaels
The Norse–Gaels (Gall-Goídil; Gall-Ghaeil; Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture.
Ogham
Ogham (Modern Irish:; ogum, ogom, later ogam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).
Oilliphéist
The Oilliphéist (ollphéist) is a sea serpent or dragon-like monster in Irish mythology and folklore.
Old Irish
Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann-Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts.
Old Welsh
Old Welsh (Hen Gymraeg) is the stage of the Welsh language from about 800 AD until the early 12th century when it developed into Middle Welsh.
Ollamh Érenn
The Ollamh Érenn or Chief Ollam of Ireland was a professional title of Gaelic Ireland.
Ollom Fotla
Ollom Fotla ("the scholar of Fódla", a poetic term for Ireland; later spelled Ollamh Fodhla), son of Fíachu Fínscothach, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.
Pa gur
Poem 31 of the Black Book of Carmarthen, a mid-13th century manuscript, is known from its first line as Pa gur yv y porthaur? (meaning "What man is the gatekeeper?") or Pa gur, or alternatively as Ymddiddan Arthur a Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr ("The dialogue of Arthur and Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr").
Pabay
Pabay is a Scottish island just off the coast of Skye.
Pabbay, Harris
Pabbay (Pabaigh) is an uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland which lies in the Sound of Harris between Harris and North Uist.
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Palladius (bishop of Ireland)
Palladius (fl. AD 408–431; died 457/461) was the first bishop of the Christians of Ireland, preceding Saint Patrick.
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Papar
The Papar (from Latin, via Old Irish, meaning "father" or "pope") were Irish monks who took eremitic residence in parts of Iceland before that island's habitation by the Norsemen of Scandinavia.
Partholón
Partholón (Parthalán.) is a character in medieval Irish Christian pseudo-history, who is said to have led one of the first groups to settle in Ireland.
Pelagianism
Pelagianism is a Christian theological position that holds that the fall did not taint human nature and that humans by divine grace have free will to achieve human perfection.
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro) is a county in the south-west of Wales.
Pen Rhionydd
Pen Rhionydd is named as the location of King Arthur's northern court in a Welsh triad found in Peniarth MS 54, containing pre-Galfridian traditions: Arthur as Chief Prince in Pen Rhionydd in the North, and Gerthmwl Wledig as Chief Elder, and Cyndeyrn Garthwys as Chief Bishop.
Penmon
Penmon is a promontory, village and ecclesiastical parish on the eastern tip of the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, about east of the town of Beaumaris.
Philip Schaff
Philip Schaff (January 1, 1819 – October 20, 1893) was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and ecclesiastical historian, who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States.
Picts
The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.
Pope Callixtus II
Pope Callixtus II or Callistus II (– 13 December 1124), born Guy of Burgundy, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 February 1119 to his death in 1124.
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Porthclais
Porthclais (also known as Porth Clais) is a small sheltered inlet harbour near St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the community of St Davids and the Cathedral Close.
Preseli Mountains
The Preseli Mountains (Mynyddoedd y Preseli or label), also known as the Preseli Hills, or just the Preselis, is a range of hills in western Wales, mostly within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and entirely within the county of Pembrokeshire.
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Primitive Irish
Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish (Gaeilge Ársa, Gaeilge Chianach), also called Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages, and the ancestor of all languages within this family.
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Prior of Monymusk
Prior of Monymusk (later, Commendator of Monymusk) was the head of the property and community of Augustinian canons of Monymusk Priory, Aberdeenshire.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Pryderi
Pryderi fab Pwyll is a prominent figure in Welsh mythology, the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon, and king of Dyfed after his father's death.
Psalm 91
Psalm 91 is the 91st psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." In Latin, it is known as 'Qui habitat".
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Pwyll
Pwyll Pen Annwn is a prominent figure in Welsh mythology and literature, the lord of Dyfed, husband of Rhiannon and father of the hero Pryderi.
Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed
Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed, "Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed," is a legendary tale from medieval Welsh literature and the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi.
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Rack railway
A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.
Rathcroghan
Rathcroghan is a complex of archaeological sites near Tulsk in County Roscommon, Ireland.
Ravenna Cosmography
The Ravenna Cosmography (Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the world from India to Ireland, compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around 700 AD.
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Rhiannon
Rhiannon is a major figure in Welsh mythology, appearing in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, and again in the Third Branch.
Rhygyfarch
Rhygyfarch or Rhigyfarch (in contemporary late Old Welsh orthography Ricemarch, 1057–1099), eldest son of Sulien, whom he may have succeeded in 1091 as Bishop of St David's, was the author of the standard Life of Saint David.
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
Richard de Clare (1130 – 20 April 1176), 2nd Earl of Pembroke, also Lord of Leinster and Justiciar of Ireland (sometimes known as Richard FitzGilbert), was an Anglo-Norman nobleman notable for his leading role in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.
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River Forth
The River Forth is a major river in central Scotland, long, which drains into the North Sea on the east coast of the country.
Robeston Wathen
Robeston Wathen is a rural village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, west of Narberth, on the former Narberth to Haverfordwest turnpike subsequently designated the A40 which bypassed the village in 2011.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Menevia
The Diocese of Menevia (Dioecesis Menevensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Wales.
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Sabine Baring-Gould
Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar.
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Saint Blane
Saint Blane (Old Irish Bláán, died 590) was a bishop and confessor in Scotland, born on the Isle of Bute, date unknown; died 590.
Saint David
David (Dewi Sant; Davidus) was a Welsh Christian prelate who served as Bishop of Mynyw during the 6th century.
Saint David's Day
Saint David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi), or the Feast of Saint David, is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March, the date of Saint David's death in 589 AD.
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Saint Fiacc
Saint Fiacc (c. 415-520) was a poet, the chief bishop of Leinster, and founder of two churches.
Saint Gobain
Saint Gobain (died 670), also known as Goban, was an Irish monk and spiritual student of Saint Fursey at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, England.
Saint Govan
Saint Govan (Gofan; died 586) was a hermit who lived in a fissure on the side of coastal cliff near Bosherston, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales.
Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint Margaret of Scotland (Naomh Maighréad; Saunt Marget), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen.
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Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick (Patricius; Pádraig or; Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.
Saint Pyr
Pyr (Pŷr; sometimes known as Piro in English) was a Welsh abbot of the 6th century who may later have been revered as a saint by some (though he was never canonised).
Saint Serf
Saint Serf or Serbán (Servanus) is a saint of Scotland.
Saint Tudwal's Islands
Saint Tudwal's Islands (Welsh: Ynysoedd Tudwal) are a small archipelago lying south of Abersoch on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, at the western end of Tremadog Bay.
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Samhain
Samhain, i or Oíche Shamhna is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year.
Samson of Dol
Samson of Dol (also Samsun; born late 5th century) was a Welsh saint, who is also counted among the seven founder saints of Brittany with Pol Aurelian, Tugdual or Tudwal, Brieuc, Malo, Patern (Paternus) and Corentin.
Scone Abbey
Scone Abbey (originally Scone Priory) was a house of Augustinian canons located in Scone, Perthshire (Gowrie), Scotland.
Scone Palace
Scone Palace is a Category A-listed historic house near the village of Scone and the city of Perth, Scotland.
Scone, Scotland
Scone (Sgàin; Scone) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Secundinus
Secundinus (fl. 5th century), or Sechnall (Modern Irish: Seachnall) as he was known in Irish, was founder and patron saint of Domhnach Sechnaill, County Meath, who went down in medieval tradition as a disciple of St Patrick and one of the first bishops of Armagh.
Senán mac Geirrcinn
Senán mac Geircinn (fl. 6th century) was an Irish Christian minister.
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Senchus fer n-Alban
The Senchus fer n-Alban (The History of the men of Scotland) is an Old Irish medieval text believed to have been compiled in the 10th century.
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Shannon Pot
Shannon Pot is a pool in the karst landscape in the townland of Derrylahan near Cuilcagh Mountain in County Cavan, Ireland.
Sliabh an Iarainn
Sliabh an Iarainn (Irish for "iron mountain"), anglicized Slieve Anierin, is a mountain in County Leitrim, Ireland.
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Sligo
Sligo (Sligeach, meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht.
Snowdon
Snowdon, or italic, is a mountain in the Snowdonia region of North Wales.
Sodor (fictional island)
The Island of Sodor is a fictional island that is the setting for The Railway Series books by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry (and his son Christopher).
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Solva
Solva (Solfach) is a village, community and electoral ward in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Sovereignty goddess
Sovereignty goddess is a scholarly term, almost exclusively used in Celtic studies (although parallels for the idea have been claimed in other traditions, usually under the label hieros gamos).
See Culdees and Sovereignty goddess
St Andrews
St Andrews (S.; Saunt Aundraes; Cill Rìmhinn, pronounced) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh.
St Brides Bay
St Brides Bay (Bae Sain Ffraid) is a bay in western Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
St Davids
St Davids or St David's (Tyddewi,, "David's house”) is a cathedral city in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
St Davids Cathedral
St Davids Cathedral (Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi) is an Anglican cathedral situated in St Davids, Britain's smallest city, in the county of Pembrokeshire, near the most westerly point of Wales.
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St Elvis, Pembrokeshire
St Elvis (Llaneilfyw) is a parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, about east of St David's.
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St Goban
St.
St Govan's Chapel
St Govan's Chapel is a chapel located at St Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire in south west Wales.
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St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Church of Ireland)
St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Ardeaglais Phádraig, Ard Mhacha) is a Church of Ireland cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland.
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St Serf's Inch
St Serf's Inch or St Serf's Island is an island in Loch Leven, in south-eastern Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
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St. Maelruain's Church, Tallaght
St.
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St. Seachnall's Church
St.
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Stephen R. Lawhead
Stephen R. Lawhead (born July 7, 1950) is an American writer known for his works of fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction, particularly Celtic historical fiction.
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Stone of Scone
The Stone of Scone (An Lia Fàil, meaning Stone of Destiny, also called clach-na-cinneamhuinn; Stane o Scone), is an oblong block of red sandstone that was used in the coronation of Scottish monarchs until the 13th century, and thereafter in the coronation of English and later British monarchs.
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Stowe Missal
The Stowe Missal (sometimes known as the Lorrha Missal), which is, strictly speaking, a sacramentary rather than a missal, is a small Irish illuminated manuscript written mainly in Latin with some Old Irish in the late eighth or early ninth century, probably after 792.
Sub-Roman Britain
Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.
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Synod of Chester
The Synod of Chester (Medieval Latin: Sinodus Urbis Legion(um)) was an ecclesiastical council of bishops held in Chester in the late 6th or early 7th century.
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Tallaght Monastery
Tallaght Monastery (Monasterium Tamlactense), heiligenlexikon.de was a Christian monastery founded in the eighth century by Máel Ruain, at a site called Tallaght, a few miles south west of present-day Dublin, Ireland.
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Táin Bó Cúailnge
Táin Bó Cúailnge (Modern; "the driving-off of the cows of Cooley"), commonly known as The Táin or less commonly as The Cattle Raid of Cooley, is an epic from Irish mythology.
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Tír na nÓg
In Irish mythology, Tír na nÓg (Tìr nan Òg) or Tír na hÓige ('Land of Youth') is one of the names for the Celtic Otherworld, or perhaps for a part of it.
Termonn
is a Gaelic (Irish) word meaning 'sanctuary, boundary'.
Terry Breverton
Terry D. Breverton (born 1946) is a British former businessman and academic who has written many books on subjects mainly related to Wales and seamen.
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Terryglass
Terryglass is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Prophecy of Berchán
The Prophecy of Berchán is a relatively long historical poem written in the Middle Irish language.
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The Railway Series
The Railway Series is a series of British books about a railway known as the North Western Railway, located on the fictional Island of Sodor.
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Thicket
A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others.
Thomas Campbell (poet)
Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet.
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Thomas Owen Clancy
Thomas Owen Clancy is an American academic and historian who specializes in medieval Celtic literature, especially that of Scotland.
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Threefold death
The threefold death, which is suffered by kings, heroes, and gods, is a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European theme encountered in Indic, Greek, Celtic, and Germanic mythology.
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Tiree
Tiree (Tiriodh) is the most westerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Toutatis
Toutatis or Teutates is a Celtic god who was worshipped primarily in ancient Gaul and Britain.
Trearddur
Trearddur or Trearddur Bay (Bae Trearddur) is a village, seaside resort and community south of Holyhead on the west coast of Holy Island off the north-west coast of Anglesey in Wales.
Treaty of Perth
The Treaty of Perth, signed 2 July 1266, ended military conflict between Magnus VI of Norway and Alexander III of Scotland over possession of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
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Trochaic septenarius
In ancient Greek and Latin literature, the trochaic septenarius (also known as the trochaic tetrameter catalectic) is a form of ancient poetic metre first used in 7th century BC Greek literature.
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Tuatha Dé Danann
The Tuatha Dé Danann (meaning "the folk of the goddess Danu"), also known by the earlier name Tuath Dé ("tribe of the gods"), are a supernatural race in Irish mythology.
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Turgot of Durham
Thorgaut or Turgot (c. 1050–1115) (sometimes, Thurgot) was Archdeacon and Prior of Durham, and Bishop of Saint Andrews.
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Twrch Trwyth
Twrch Trwyth (also Trwyd), is a fabulous wild boar from the Legend of King Arthur, of which a richly elaborate account of its hunt described in the Welsh prose romance Culhwch and Olwen, probably written around 1100.
Uí Ímair
The Uí Ímair (meaning ‘scions of Ivar’), also known as the Ivar dynasty or Ivarids, was a Norse-Gael dynasty which ruled much of the Irish Sea region, the Kingdom of Dublin, the western coast of Scotland, including the Hebrides and some part of Northern England, from the mid 9th century.
Uí Ceinnselaig
The Uí Ceinselaig (also Uí Ceinselaig, Anglicized as Kinsella), from the Old Irish "grandsons of Cennsalach", are an Irish dynasty of Leinster who trace their descent from Énnae Cennsalach, a supposed contemporary of Niall of the Nine Hostages.
See Culdees and Uí Ceinnselaig
Veneti (Gaul)
The Venetī (Gaulish: Uenetoi) were a Gallic tribe dwelling in Armorica, in the southern part of the Brittany Peninsula, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Venicones
The Venicones were a people of ancient Britain, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer Ptolemy c. 150 AD.
Vestmenn
Vestmenn (Westmen in English) was the Old Norse word for the Gaels of Ireland and Britain, especially Ireland and Scotland.
Vortiporius
Vortiporius or Vortipor (Guortepir, Gwrdeber or Gwerthefyr) was a king of Dyfed in the early to mid-6th century.
Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Welsh Triads
The Welsh Triads (Trioedd Ynys Prydein, "Triads of the Island of Britain") are a group of related texts in medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments of Welsh folklore, mythology and traditional history in groups of three.
Wexford
Wexford is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland.
Whithorn
Whithorn (Taigh Mhàrtainn), is a royal burgh in the historic county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about south of Wigtown.
Wigtownshire
Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown is one of the historic counties of Scotland, covering an area in the south-west of the country.
Wilbert Awdry
Wilbert Vere Awdry (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997), often credited as Rev.
William Reeves (bishop)
William Reeves (16 March 1815 – 12 January 1892) was an Irish antiquarian and the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore from 1886 until his death.
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York
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culdees
Also known as Céli Dé, Culdee, Culdee monks, Célie Dé, Kuldee, Order of Culdees.
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