HnKNAKii— 7V/(^ Charters of the. Ahhcij of Duiskc. 153 



^lacGillapatrich against which tlio convent of Duisi^G appealed. The prior WiUiam 

 was probably William O'lU'ophy who was appointed to that oHicc in 1481. 



Thovias Mijslicl, i.i.,i!., is buried in St. Cauice's Cathedral,' a canon of Ossory 

 and also of Cashel. 



The archbishop of Dublin who appears in this instrument was Waller 

 FUzsimon 1148-1-1511). 



VI. — The Dissolution of the Abbey. 



We have no more charters of the abbey of Duiske, and for tlie remainder 

 of its history \vc liave to rely on the fragmentary extracts that remain h\n\\ 

 the llei^ister (EFL) and on the State Papers. 



In 1501 or 1502, Charles, or Caher, Kavanagh was elected abbot.- He 

 was a great personage, and is thus described by Stanihurst : " Cagher, a 

 nobleman borne, in his time called Mack Murrough, descended of that 

 Mack Murrough that was sometime King of Leinster. He was a surpassing 

 devine, and for liys learning and vertue was created bishop of Leighlin' and 

 abbot of Grage. He flourished in tlie year 1550, and was an hundred yeres 

 old when he deceased."'' Ho was the son of Donnell Reagh Kavanagii, and 

 has appeared before as attesting his father's benefaction to the abbey.'' His 

 election as abbot shows how thoroughly Irish in its .sympathies the abbey 

 had become. 



Abbot Kavanagh took a large part in diocesan affairs. In 1522 he appears 

 as chancellor of Leighlin,' a position which Cowling" states that he held for 

 eight years. During the episcopate of Bishop Thomas Halsey (151.3-1521), 

 an Englishman, who is not known to have ever visited Ireland, abbot 

 Kavanagh acted as vicar-general of the diocese of Leighlin, and after the 

 bishop's death he was appointed (in 1522) as one of the guardians of the 

 spiritualities of the see.* Halsey's successor as bishop of Leighlin was 

 Maurice Doran, a pious Dominican, who was murdered, after he had held the 

 see for a year and a half, by his archdeacon, Maui'ice Kavanagh. The story 

 of this murder is thus told in a State Paper of 1525 purporting to set out the 

 misdemeanours of Piers Butler, eighth Earl of Ormonde : " The late bishop of 

 LeighUn was heinously murdered by the abbot of Duske's son, who was the 



' O'Phelan's Epitaphs in St. Oanice's, p. 76. 



2 Extracts from the Duiske Registers (EFL). 



•^ This is not accurate ; see below. 



■■ Holiushed, Description of Irdaiul (ed. loTT), p. 25 ; see p. 16:5. 



■' See p. 1.50. This is continued by the pedigroo in the po.ssession of Mr. Walter 

 Kavanagh, u.L., of Borris, co. Carlow. 



" Christ Ohurch Deeds, 410. ' Dowliug's AnnaU, 3. a. 1515. 



'^ This is, no doubt, the fact behind Staiiihurst's erroneous stntement that he was 

 bishop of Leighlin. See Dowling, and Ohrist Church Deeds, 410. 



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