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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Sept. 8. 1855. 



sixteenth centuries, I do not know any work 

 ■which will supply all the information wanted. 

 Mirai Notitia Episcopatuum Orbis Christiani, 

 12mo., Antwerp, 1613, will furnish the names of 

 sees; but I do not remember that it gives the 

 succession of prelates who filled them. 



H. Cotton. 

 Lismore, Ireland. 



Enachdunensis Is Bishop of Enachdune, now 

 Annadown, near Lough Corrib, in the county of 

 Galway in Ireland. The see has been long since 

 united to that of Tuam. See Sir James Ware's 

 Woi^ks^ by Harris, under " Bishops, Tuam ; " and 

 Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol. iv. 

 p. 344. sq. 



Rathlin is probably Ardagh, which includes, 

 inter alia, the modern county of Longford, in 

 which Rathlin is situate. The Catholics retain it 

 as a distinct see. But it might possibly be a 

 mistake for Rathlurensis, meaning the ancient see 

 of Tirone, placed first at Rathlure (which was 

 afterwards designated Ardsratha, and now Ard- 

 straw), from which the see was translated to 

 Maghera in the county of Derry, and subsequently 

 merged in the see of Derry. 



Maionens indicates a Bishop of Mayo in the 

 north-west of Ireland, where was a celebrated 

 monastery and school for the instruction of 

 Saxons, whence it is frequently called Mayo of 

 the Saxons ; concerning which see Bede's Eccle- 

 siastical History, and Archbishop Ussher's Pri- 

 mordia. The see may be either that of Achonry, 

 or more probably that of Killala. 



Carolus a S. Paulo, in his Geograpliia Sacra, 

 gives much of the information which Mr. Thomp- 

 son requires. More can be had from Ussher's 

 Primordia, Bingham's Origines, Wells's Geogra- 

 phy, and the lists contained in Wilkins's Concilia, 

 and Gough's edition of Camden. Abterus. 



Dublin. 



I can answer some of Mk. Pishey Thompson's 

 Queries respecting the ancient bishoprics he 

 names, but I am inclined to question the ortho- 

 graphy of the rest, especially as the querist him- 

 self seems doubtful of it. 



Enachdunensis answers to the modern parish of 

 Annaghdown, or Enaghdune, co. Galway, in Ire- 

 land, which once formed an independent bishopric 

 founded by St. Brendan of Clonfert early in the 

 sixth century ; It Is now merged in the diocese of 

 Tuam. For farther particulars see Lewis's Irish 

 Topographical Dictionary, or, better authority. 

 King's Church History of Ireland, p. 1174. 



Rathlin may be either Ratheline, an ecclesias- 

 tical division of the co. Longford, which boasts an 

 ecclesiastical foundation going back to the days of 

 St. Patrick, or else Rathlin, a I'emarkable island 



No. 306-3 



lying oiF the Giant's Causeway on the north coast 

 of Ireland, and said to owe its early ecclesiastical 

 establishment to the Abbots of Hy, or lona, in 

 Scotland. From early Irish history it would 

 appear that, previous to a celebrated Synod of 

 Kells, held a.d. 1151, the number of small bi- 

 shoprics in Ireland was considerable, almost car- 

 responding to the present parochial divisions. 



A. B. E. 

 Belmont. 



Inquiry has been made In relation to the ancient 

 bishoprics of (inter alia) Enachdun, Rathlin, and 

 Mayo. These three are situate in Ireland. 

 Enachdun (Jiodie Annadown) was placed in tbe- 

 county of Galway. Mention is made of it in' 

 Archdall's Monasticon Hibernicum, p. 283., and 

 entries relating to the church of Enachdun are to 

 be found in the Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium 

 et Clausarum of the Irish Chancery. A few 

 enrolments (and some of them of interest) are- 

 entered upon the Exchequer Records of Ireland, 

 with respect to the same church. In Prynne's- 

 Animadversions, p. 322., refei'ence Is made to an 

 English record of the 1st Edward II., containing 

 a suit between the archbishop of Tuam and the 

 bishop elect of Erashdunen (Enachdunensis), for 

 his temporalties, which the archbishop pretended 

 to be annexed to his archbishopric. In Reeve's 

 Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Doion, Connor, and 

 Dromore, there are several references to records 

 which relate to the bishopric of Rathlin ; and In 

 the Calendarium to which I have referred, mention 

 is made of the bishopric of Mayo, to which Arch'- 

 dall also alludes in his Monasticon, at p. 505. 



James F. Ferguson. 



The name of the Bishops of Enaghdune will be 

 found in Dr. Cotton's Fasti Eccles. Hibern. : of 

 the other bishops the two latter mentioned by 

 your correspondent were suffragans of English 

 diocesans, with titular sees, the last being pro- 

 bably of Argolis In Greece. I have, with him, ex- 

 perienced equal difficulty In endeavouring to 

 identify the localities of foreign districts with 

 mediaeval names, derived from petty villages often, 

 and frequently from cities that have ceased to 

 exist. He will find lists of R. C. bishopsin Lan- 

 don's Ecclesiastical Dictionary, of which two 

 volumes only, however, have been published by 

 Messrs. Rivington. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



The bishopric designated by your correspondent 

 as Enachdunensis Is most probably Enagddown, 

 which, with the one called Maionen, which I doubt 

 not is Mayo, have long been united to the arcbl- 

 episcopal see of Tuam. Carleus should, I imagine, 

 be Carlens, and stands for Carleolensis or Carlisle. 

 Rathlin I take to be what is now the see of Down 



