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MEATH (BISHOPS)

ABBOTS OF CLONARDClonard was an abbey in the kingdom of Meath, founded by St Finnian in the fifthcentury. Its abbots controlled the abbey's considerable secular holdings in what is now County Meath.Finnian mac Theilduib 530s-549/552Senach (also bishop) ?-c. 590Diarmat 590-615Colman mac Theilduib Mo Cholmóc (also bishop) 615-654Oisséne Foto 654Ultán moccu Chungai 654-665Da Beóóc (Mo Bécóc) ?-689/90Colman ua hEirc ('Colman hoa hOirce') 690-701Dub Dúin ua Fáeláin (also bishop) 701-718Áelchú 718-732Fiannamail mac Geirtidi 732-736Tólac mac Dúnchado (bishop, but not abbot of Clonard) 736-738Forindán 738-745Do Dímmóc (also abbot of Kildare) 745-748Bécc Laitne 748-763Loarn 763-765Airlid 765-772

Góedel 772-776Fulartach (bishop, but not abbot of Clonard) 776-779Dub dá Bairenn 779-787Crundmáel Dromma Inesclainn 787-793Clothchú (bishop and anchorite, but not abbot of Clonard) 793-796Dub dá Bairenn ua Dubáin 796-805Crundmáel mac Ordráin 805-820Clemens (also bishop) 820-826Cormac mac Suibni (also bishop) 826-830Eógan Mainistrech (also Lector of Monasterboice and abbot of Armagh) 830-834Comsub (also bishop and anchorite) 834-858Suairlech ind Eidnén mac Ciaráin (also bishop) 858-870 and...Dálach mac Mácle Raitte 858-862

Áedán 870-882Ailbrén mac Maichtig 882-884Cormac, also bishop of Duleek 884-885Cú Chongelt 885-888Rumann mac Cathassiag (bishop, but not abbot of Clonard) 888-921Colmán mac Ailella (also bishop, and abbot of Clonmacnoise) 921-926Ferdomnach mac Flannacáin 926-932Máel Mochta 932-942Máel Feichíne 942-944Célechair mac Robartaig (abbot of Clonmacnoise) 944-954Máenach (possibly abbot of Clonard, also Lector of Armagh and possibly abbot of Molville) 954-956Béccán mac Lachtáin (also bishop) 956-973

Tuathal mac Máel Ruba (ua Dubánaig) 973-993Ferdomnach 993-1008Fachtna 1008-1011Flaithbertach mac Domnaill (also abbot of Clonmacnoise) 1011-1014Flaithbertach was the was the son of Domnall mac Donnchada, King of Meath (951-952), and brother of Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, King of Meath and High King of Ireland (980-1022)Domnall mac Máel Sechnaill 1011-1019Tuathal ua Dubánaig (also bishop) 1019-1028/30Cellach ua Cléirchén 1028/30-1043

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Ferdomnach ua hInnascaig 1043-1048Tuathal Ua Follamain 1048-1055Murchad mac Flainn Ua Máel Sechlainn 1055-1076Murchad was the grandson of grandson of Abbot Domnall mac Máel Sechnaill. He alsoserved as abbot of Kells in 1055, and was king of Meath (according to the annals) for three nights in 1073Muirchertach mac Loingsig Ua Máel Sechlainn 1076-1092Máel Muire Ua Dúnáin (diocesan bishop of Clonard, but not abbot of Clonard) 1092-1117Conchobar Ua Follamain 1117?Gilla Crist Ua hEcháin ?-1136Ua Follamain 1136-1150Conchobar Dall mac Domnaill Ua Máel Sechlainn 1150-1153 d.?To the Bishops of Clonard thereafter...

BISHOPS OF CLONARDEochaid Ua Cellaig 1133-1140Étrú Ua Miadacháin 1152-1173Echthigern Mac Máel Chiaráin 1170s-1191Simon Rochfort 1192-1224Bishop Rochfort moved the see from Clonard to Newtown near Trim in 1202 and tookthe title "Bishop of Meath".

BISHOPS OF MEATH

Deodatus Dónán Dé 1224-1226Ralph Petit 1227-1230Richard de la Corner 1231-1252Geoffrey Cusack 1253Hugo of Taghmon 1254-1282Walter de Fulburn 1283-1286Thomas St Leger 1286-1320Seoán Mac Cearbaill 1321-1327William of St. Paul 1327-1349William St. Leger 1349-1352Nicholas Allen 1353-1367Stephen de Valle 1369-1379William Andrew 1380-1385

Alexander Petit de Balscot 1386-1400Robert Montayne 1401-1412Edward Dantsey 1412-1430William Hadsor 1430-1433William Silk 1433-1450Edmund Oldhall 1450-1459William Sherwood 1460-1482John Payne 1483-1507William Rokeby 1507-1512Hugh Inge 1512-1523Richard Wilson 1523-1529