Posted on 17. Sep, 2007 by ntmcconnell in History
Cináeth Ua Baígill ( – 1135) Gilla Críst Ua Morgair (1135 – 1138) Áed Ua Cáellaide (1138 – 1178) Mael Ísu Ua Cerbaill (1178 – 1186/7) Gilla Críst Ua Mucaráin (c.1187 – 1193) Máel Ísu Ua Máel Chiaráin (1194 – 1197) Gilla Tigernaig Mac Gilla Rónáin (c.1197 – 1218) […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2007 by ntmcconnell in History
Monaghan as a site for the diocesan college (Clones had been considered) had long term implications. It meant that in due course the bishop’s residence and cathedral would also be in Monaghan. And on the death of Dean Bellew, parish priest of Monaghan, at a great age, in 1851, Bishop MacNally took Monaghan as a […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2007 by ntmcconnell in History
By the end of the eighteenth century the worst of the Penal Laws had been repealed. But at parish and county level, not to look further, power was firmly in the hands of the landlord. He had the giving of a site for the chapel and of a lease to the priest of the farm […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2007 by ntmcconnell in History
Diocesan and parish life was functioning again reasonably wel1 around 1800. There were 36 or 37 parish priests, including a Dominican and a Franciscan, and 18 curates, including five regulars. In four or five parishes the annual revenue was over £100; in four parishes less than £50. The bishop visited the parishes and administered Confirmation […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2007 by ntmcconnell in History
In the first half of the eighteenth century Clogher diocese was ruled in turn by Hugh, Brian and Ross MacMahon, natives of Dartry and closely related. In turn they became archbishops of Armagh. Hugh is buried in Drogheda in an unmarked grave. Brian and Ross, who were brothers, lie buried in Edergole in their native […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2007 by ntmcconnell in History
When Henry VIII was proclaimed by Parliament head of the Church, first in England and later in Ireland, many people, including some bishops, did not recognise that this was schism. Had not the Pope given Henry the title ‘Defender of the Faith’? Later the Council of Trent (1545?63) helped to clarify the issues and had […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2007 by ntmcconnell in History
A new element entered the religious life of the people with the introduction of the Friars Minor. MacMahon had founded a house for them in Monaghan in 1462; but it was more than a century later that Maguire established them in Lisgoole in Fermanagh. The influence of the Donegal convent (1474) was powerful, not only […]
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