112 Pructeding-'i of the Roi/al Irlslt Acadtimj. 



The Synod of Eathbreasail,' about 1112, made provision for a new 

 arrangement, by "which it would appear that it wisely intended to 

 establish one bishopric over all Thomond. It appointed, as bounds to 

 the enlarged see of Killaloe, limits from Slige Dala to Cuchullin's 

 Leap, at Loop Head, and from Mount Eachtuige to Tide an Eiogh (a 

 summit of the Cratloe Hills, at Glennagross, near Limerick, and from 

 thence to Glen Caoia, in Tipperary, which does not concern our present 

 county Clare. The neighbouring sees were thus bounded where they - 

 touched the bishopric of Killaloe : — Clonf ert by the Shannon, and along 

 Eachtige to Buirenn — Limerick from Taii'bert, on the south bank of 

 the Shannon, to Cuinche, in Thomond, to the cross- on Mount TJidhe 

 an Eiogh, and to the Dubh Abhainn, or Blackwater, a little stream 

 running into the Shannon not far above Limerick. 



This amalgamation resulted, in about 1189, in the addition of the 

 Corcovaskins and Ibrikan to "Killaloe on the death of Aedh O'Beaghain, 

 the last bishop of Liiscatha ; but the Island Cathedral of the lapsed 

 diocese was given most unwisely to Limerick. 



This has been contradicted, and a suggestion made that the entries 

 in the " Black Book of Limerick" relating to Iniscatha as in that see, are 

 forgeries.' IS^o satisfactory proof of this statement has hitherto been 

 given, while several facts seem to tell in favour of the received history. 

 Two undoubted entries in the Black Book are to this effect : — xxi. 

 Hubert, Bishop of Limerick (1222, 1250), grants the chui'ch of St. 

 Mary of Iniskefty* ; and, xxii., the Abbot of St. Senan {temp. IVm. 

 de Bui-go, Deputy-Governor, c. 1310),* holds half Iniscathy, with its 

 appurtenances. This being evidently a document preseiwed as affect- 

 ing the interests of the see of Limerick. 



Tniskeftin (Tniskettiu, Tniskestin), in the Papal taxation of 1302, 

 is given in the deanery of Eathkeale and diocese of Limerick ; Inis- 

 catha not appearing among the full and careful list of the parishes of 

 Corcovaskin. The Bev. Mr. Dowd^ identifies this place as Askeaton ; 

 but the latter, in early Irish enti'ies, is Eas Gephtine and Eas Goph- 

 tiny,^ while in any early records known to us from English sources it 

 is usually Asketon, or by error Askelon. jS'or is there any evidence of 



^ Keating's " History of Ireland" (O'Conor's editiun), p. 101. 

 ^ "Whence Glennacross. 



3 R. S.A. I. Journal, 1874-5, pp. 257, 259, 273. 



^ The Church of Scattery -n-as in later days dedicated to the Yirgia : see 

 O'Hanlon, vol. in., March 8th. 



s See Patent Eolls, Ed. II. ^ '• County Limerick." 



'' " Older Annals, InnisfaUea." 



