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was at Eath Luraig : but the bishops were nevertheless often styled bishops 

 of Derry.^ 



Again, among the suffragans of the Archbishop of Tuam we find the Bishop 

 of Aiebal (?) ' and the Bishop of ConairL The former name is certainly a 

 corruption of Aehad, which appears in the lists of Albinus and Cencius. But, 

 if so, we are at once struck with the fact that Acliad Conairi (Conaire) is the 

 Irish spelling of the name of the diocese which we call Aehonry. Someone 

 has ob\iously again made two dioceses out of one. The words " episcopum 

 de " before Conairi should therefore be deleted, though, from the agieement of 

 the other lists with ours, we must infer that they stood in the original record. 

 Ware's bold equation of Conairi (or, as he piiats it, Cinani) with Clonmac- 

 noise (Cluanensis)^ is impossible. 



This conclusion invites us to fujther speculation. If we are right, Clon- 

 maenoise is not mentioned in our document.* But there can be little doubt 

 that the Diocese of Clonmacnoise was already constituted ; and in fact its 

 Bishop, Muirchertach Ua Mail Uidhir, was present at the Synod. So also 

 was Tuathal Ua Connachtaigh, Bishop of Ui Briuin (later known as the 

 Diocese of Kilmorej ^ ; and the obits of Aedh Ua Piun, Bishop of Breifne (the 

 same district), in 1136, and Muirchertaich Ua Mail Moicheirge, Bishop of 

 Ui Briuin, in 1149, are recorded in the Annals of Tigemach. But this 

 bishopric also is absent from our list. Are these omissions due to the 

 blunders of a scribe ? TTe might think so, but for a remarkable piece of 

 evidence to the contrary. The chronicler known as Henry of Peterborough 

 gives us a list of the bishops who did fealty to Henry II in 1171. It seems 

 to include the whole of the Irish episcopate ; but neither the Bishop of Ui 

 Briuin nor the Bishop of Clonmacnoise is mentioned. It is, therefore, 

 probable that these two bishopries were suppressed — so far as an ordinance of 

 Paparo could achieve such a result — in 1152. Yet both of them remain; 

 Clonmacnoise, it is true, in name only, to this day. 



Some dioceses in the list which no longer exist deserve attention. They 

 are Kells, Duleek, Inis Cathaigh, Eoscrea, and Mayo. Kells was not recognized 

 at the Synod of Eathbreasad. in 1110, though it seems to have been in 



' See Irish Chuvch Quarterly, x (1917), p. 226 ff. The see seems to have been translated • 

 from Derry to Rath Luraig (Maghera) between 1137 and 1150. It remained in the latter 

 place up to the end of the thirteenth ceutury. 



- See above, p. IS, note 36. 



^ Fabre also, more dogmatically than "Ware, identifies Conairi with Clonmacnoise, 

 giving no reason for his opinion. 



* So Ware, with reference to the Liber Censtium, p. 85 ; but he changes his mind on 

 p. 87. 



' Keating, iii. 316. 



