Bede, _Chronicle_ of, 282; on Nynias, 313; on Dalriada, 316; silence as to Patrick, 385, 386; his _Martyrology_, 386 _note_ Bell of Patrick at Armagh, 211, 320-21 Beltane customs, 107, 267, 303 Benedictus, companion of Palladius, 299 Benignus (of Tirerrill), 307 Benignus (successor of Patrick at Armagh), ordeal of, 109, 145; adopted, 173-4; date of death, 284; succeeds Patrick, 206 and _note_, 319, 332; helps to compile _Senchus Mór_, 355, 356; canon attributed to, 371 Bernicia, 325 Bishops in Irish Church, 180 _sqq._, 243 _sqq._, 286, 375 _sqq._; in _Senchus Mór_, 379 Bitteus, Bishop (Betheus), 135 _sq._, 358, 377 _Bó-aire_, 68 _note_ Boderg, Lake, 134 Bofin, Lake, 134 Boniface, Bishop (Winfrith), at Geismar, 124; compared to Patrick, 217, 233 _note_ Boniface, Pope, 370 _Book of Armagh_, see _Liber Armachanus_ _Book of Clonmacnois_, 281 _Book of Cuana_, see _Liber Cuanach_ _Book of the Island of Saints_, 281 _Book of Rights_, 69 _note_, 70 _note_ Bordeaux, 34, 274, 341 Braid, river, 29 _Bratho, flumen_, 376 _note_ Brechtan (Bright), 89, 90, 301, 302 Breg, plain of, 104 Brene Strait, 84, 301 Brian, son of Eochaidh Muighmeadhoin, 365 Brian, sons of, 144 Brigantia, 12 _note_ Bright, _see_ Brechtan Brigit, St., _Life_ of, by Cogitosus, 255, 256, 332; date of birth, 284 Britain, Scottic colonisation in north of, 10 _note_; Druidism in, 11 _note_; Roman rule in, 12; annexed by Claudius, 13; close relations of, with Gaul, _ib._; Irish settlements in south-west of, 14; invasions of by Picts, Scots, and Saxons, 20 _sqq._, 325 _sqq._; by Niall, 25 _sq._, 331; Patrick returns to, 41; church of, appeals to Gallic Church to crush Pelagianism, 50; Germanus and Lupus sent on a mission to, 51; _dux Britanniarum_, 314, 328; _comes Britanniae_, 328; _comes litoris Saxonici per Brit._, 328; relations of British Church to Irish, 244; kings and tyrants in, 315; Celtic revival in, _ib._ Brón MacIcni, Bishop, 130, 145, 307, 359, 377, 378 Brotgalum, 274, 341 Brude, King, 108 _note_ Bruno of Querfurt, 215 Búan, 335 Burgundians, conversion to Christianity, 9 Cabcenne, river, 381 _note_ (Stokes and Strachan conjecture that _Culcenne_ should be read) Caichán, 176 _note_, 311 Cainnech, Bishop, 376, 378 _note_ Cairell, Bishop, 377 Cairnech, helps to compile _Senchus Mór_, 355, 356 Caisselire, 130 _Calendar of Luxeuil_, 319 _Calendar of Oengus_, 343 _note_ Calpurnius, father of Patrick, 16 _sqq._; decurion, 20, 290; names his son, 23, 289, 291 _Canabae_, 290 Candida Casa (Whitern), 313 Canons, Irish, 166 _sqq._, 233 _sqq._; see _Hibernensis_ Caplait, Druid, 138, 142 _sq._, 240 _sqq._ Capraria, island, 294 Caprasius, 295