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Title: The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864

Author: Various

Release Date: August 15, 2010 [EBook #33436]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer
errors have been changed and are listed at the end.

Characters that could not be displayed directly in Latin-1 are
transcribed as follows:

_ - Italics
^o - masculine ordinal
[.b] - lentition on top of b
[mc] - maltese cross
[V] - versicle
[R] - response

THE IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD.

DECEMBER, 1864.

THE DIOCESE OF ROSS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

The _Lives of the Irish Bishops_, published by Ware, in 1665, and
rewritten by Harris in the beginning of the last century, have been long
regarded as authentic history; and the statements of these learned
writers have been generally accepted without hesitation, being supposed
to rest on ancient and indubious documents. It is thus, to take a quite
recent example, that the Rev. W. Maziere Brady, D.D., in the third
volume of his _Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross_ (London, 1864),
adopts, with only a few verbal variations, the whole narrative of Ware
regarding St. Fachnan and his successors in the see of Ross.
Nevertheless, many of his statements are inaccurate, and some of them,
too, are wholly at variance with historic truth. At the very threshold
of our present inquiry we meet with one instance which alone should
suffice to render us cautious in accepting the assertions of such
historians, when unconfirmed by other authorities.

"One _Thady_" (Ware thus writes), "was Bishop of Ross on the 29th of
January, 1488, and died a little after; but I have not found where he
was consecrated. One _Odo_ succeeded i