Abolition of military tenures, 82
Absenteeism, 53, 59, 82, 92, 93, 96, 103
Adrian IV., Bull of Pope, 41
Advances to tenants, under Irish Church

Act, 135, 153 (note), 175, 176; under
Act of 1870, 153, 175, 176; under
Act of 1881, 167, 168, 175, 176; under
Lord Ashbourne's Act, 175, 176
Adventurers, 79, 81

Agnatic family, 3

Agrarian community, ibid.

Aicill, Book of, 20

Aires, 15, 16, 18

Alexander III., Bull of Pope, 47
Alienation of land, 12, 13, 30; influence

of the Church on, in early times, 13,
32; mode of, in the Brehon Law, 30
Anti-rent agitation, 156, 157
Arrears Act 1882, 172, 173

Ashbourne's, Lord, Act, 175

Bacon, Lord, 74 (note)

Ballybetagh, 70 (note)

Bank deposits, growth of, 124

Bastards, could inherit under the Bre-

hon Law, 35, 41; could not inherit
under Kentish Gavelkind, 68

Bestigi, 25

Bedford, Duke of, 96

Belfast, exports from, 156

Bessborough Commission, 127 (note),

143 (note), 157, 159

Betaghes, 26

Black rent, 53

Bo-Aires, 15, 16, 18

Bogland, reclamation of, permitted to
Catholics, 97

Bonaght, 37
Bothacks, 16, 18

Boyne, battle of the, 83

Brehons, 19; authority of the, 20
Brehon Law, 19; translations of, by
Commissioners, 20, 21; date of, 21,
22; resembles the laws of Wales, 22;
not a code, 22; how far binding, 23;
ambiguity of terms in, 24; prohibi-
tion of, 52; what would have been
the effect of the recognition of the, 67
Bright Clauses of the Act of 1870, 136,
151-155

Bruce, expedition of, 50

de Burgh, Richard, receives grant of
Connaught, 50

Cain Aigillne, 28
Cain Serrath, ibid.

Canting of tithes, 95
Cashel, Synod of, 43
Cathal, 49

Catholic Church, power of, 113, 114
Catholics, massacre by, 77, 78; op-

pressed by Penal Code, 80

Cattle, importance of, in early commu-
nity, 4, 10, 11

Ceiles, 16, 18

Cess, 37

Charles II., restoration of, 80; Irish
Land Commission of, 81; abolition
of knight service in the reign of, 82
Charter, Irish, 49

Chichester, Sir Arthur, 74 (note)
Chief, increase in the power of the, 7;
election of, 8, 30, 31; seigniory of,
over the tribe-lands, 9; exactions
by, 29, 35-38; and tenant, connec-
tion of, in Brehon Law, 69
Church, relation of the, to land in the
Brehon Law, 13, 14, 32; tenants in
Brehon Law, 32; structure of, in
Brehon Law, resembles tribe, 32, 33
Colony of the Pale, influence of the,
on Brehon Law, 4; origin of the
term, 55

Commendation, mental, 23, 24
Commercial Code, 84-87, 90, 95, 97
Commissions, Land, under James I.,
71, 77; for making shires in 1605,
73; under William III., 83
Commons, origin of, 33, 34; enclosure
of, 94-96

Compensation, for disturbance, 137,
138, 142-149, 163, 164; for im-
provements, see Improvements
Connaught, surrender of two-thirds of,

by Cathal to John, 49; granted to
Richard de Burgh, ibid.; composition
of, 62; scheme of plantation in, 77
Constantine, forged donation of, 41
(note)

Contract, basis of Act of 1860, 126-
128; freedom of, impossible in Ire-
land, 126, 127; mercantile system
of, under Act of 1860, 133, 134
Copyhold, 90-92

Cork, claims to lands in, in reign of
Elizabeth, 60
Corus Bescna, 21
Coshering, 27, 29, 37, 43

Cottrell, John, 37 (note)

de Courcy, 48

Courts Baron, 44 (note), 92

Court of Claims, 81

Cowper, Earl, Land Commission of,
179, 180

Coyne, 27, 29, 43, 82

Crith Gabhlach, 20

Cromer, Archbishop of Armagh, 59
(note)

Cromwell, character of his Irish wars,
59; settlement of Ireland under, 78,
80; conquest of Ireland by, 78, 79
Cuddies, 37

Customary tenures, absence of, 26

Daer tenancy, 10; rules of, 28-30
Davels, Henry, 60

Davies, Sir John, 24, 67, 70-72, 80,
89; abolition of Irish tenures by,
67 et seq.
Deirbhfine, 25

Deis lands, 24, 25
Dergfine, 26 (note)

Desmond, Sir John, 60; revolt of Earl
of, 60

Devon Commission, 107 (note), 118,
121 (note), 136
Dibad, 25

Disgavelling of Irish land, 73 et seq.
Distress, 10, 98, 99, 131

Disturbance, compensation for, see
Compensation

Drogheda, Statute of, 55
Druids, 19

Druim Gall, 21

Dufferin, Lord, 19 (note)
Duthaig-fine, 25

Earth-tillers, treatment of, under Crom-
wellian Settlement, 80, 89, 90
Edgecombe, Sir Richard, 55
Edward IV., policy of, towards de-
generate lords, 51

Ejectment, caused by political motives,
94; remedy by, 131, 132, 163, 164,
179, 180

Elizabeth, character of Irish wars of,
59; dealings with Irish land in early
part of reign of, 60, 71
Emigration, 97, 110, 121
Eric composition, 36, 43

Escheat in relation to Gavelkind, 73
Eviction Act 1816, 100, 107, 131 (note)
Exactions by Chief, 29, 35, 38; had
their origin in increase of Fuidhir
tenants, 38