428 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
In Gam’s “‘ Series Episcoporum Ecclesize Catholice ” (4to, Ratis- 
bon, 1873), a work of great repute, Field (or O’Fihel) appears next 
after Sanders, and though his death is dated 1549, and Field’s provi- 
sion is in 1555, no bishop is noticed as having sat in the six interven- 
ing years. 
According to Ware, however, who is followed by Archdeacon 
Cotton (Fasti Ecce. Hib., 1. 387), Robert Travers succeeded on the 
death of Sanders, and was consecrated in 1550. He was appointed 
by Edward VI., but was deposed five years later, on the accession of 
(Queen Mary, because he had married. Thereupon the See was filled 
by the appointment of the other bishop named in the inscription under 
consideration. His name appears in a great variety of forms. In the 
Barberini records (Brady, ii. 187, 1. 886), it is given as Ofigillan and 
Offilay. Thady Dowling, who was contemporaneously Chancellor of 
Leighlin, in his Annals call him Fylay (not Filey, as quoted in Comer- 
ford), alias Fighill. Ware and Cotton give his name as Field or O’ Fihel. 
Gams follows them. Comerford names him O’Fihely or Field. In the 
Annals of his Order he appears as Fihely ; and in a memorandum printed 
in Shirley’s ‘‘ Original Letters,” &c., p. 98, he is styled ‘‘S* Thomas 
ffyllye, Bisshop of Laughlyn.” He is also possibly the Bishop Ophily 
(erroneously ? called William), named as predecessor of Francis de 
Ribera on his appointment in 1587. 
These variations of spelling, doubtless, do not indicate any substantial 
difference, but illustrate the unsettled orthography of the times. To 
the eight forms of the name above recounted, the inscription, which is 
probably as good an authority as any, adds one more, namely, Filay. 
Bishop Filay, who, according to Ware, was a native of Cork, was a 
professed member of the order of St. Augustine, Rector of Delgany, 
diocese of Dublin, and Abbot, ‘‘ Monasterii Sti. Agustini, Mageo- 
nen.,’’ when, 15th Jan., 1547, the Pope appointed him to the See of 
Achonry—a fact not known to Ware, Harris, or Cotton, but which 
Dr. Brady’s researches brought to ight. He was allowed to retain 
his monastery of Mageo—which, as neither Brady nor Comerford 
identifies it, | may note, on the authority of the Rev. Denis Murphy, 
8.J., M.R.I.A., was Mayo of the Saxons, near Claremorris, and not to 
be confounded with the Cistercian foundation ‘‘de Magio,”? or Mo- 
naster-Nenagh, Co. Limerick. (See Grace’s Annals, I. A. 8., Appendix, 
p. 169, and Lady Dunraven’s Memorials of Adare.) His translation is 
commemorated by Herrera, in his Alphabetum Augustinianum, p. 480. 
According to Dowling, he was a Franciscan. As to this, see Comer- 
ford and Moran. The question whether he conformed at the Refor- 
mation has been a subject of controversy, but that topic is outside the 
scope of this Paper. 
The date of Bishop Filay’s death is not free from doubt. Thady 
Dowling fails to record it. Ware (in the English edition of 1704-5), 
states explicitly :—‘‘ He died in 1557 [an evident misprint for 
1567], the Friday before Palm Sunday [?.e. March 21st], having 
sate about twelve years, and was buried in the same tomb with his 
