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the Irish of the district desired that St. Mary's Church, a Danish foundation, 

 and without ancient ecclesiastical tradition, should be ousted from its position 

 as the Cathedral Church in favour of Mungret, founded by St. Nessan, a 

 disciple of St. Patrick.^ The claim was at any rate fruitless. The Annals 

 apparently name no bishops of Mungret after 1152. 



Similarly in the claim of Ardmore we may see evidence of a quarrel for 

 precedence between the two saints of the Diocese of Lismore — Carthach or 

 Mochuta, of Lismore, and Declan, of Ardmore.- In this case, however, the 

 demand may have been for the formation of a new diocese to be carved out of 

 Lismore. In spite of Paparo's apparently adverse decision, there was in fact 

 for a short time a Diocese of Ardmore. Its bishop, according to Benedict, 

 did fealty to Henry II. He was probably that Eugenius, Bishop of Ardmore, 

 who with his presumed rival. Christian, Bishop of Lismore and Papal Legate, 

 witnessed a charter of Diarmait MacCarthy between 1172 and 1179.^ The 

 see was in existence in 1210 ;* but we have no later mention of it. 



' Tripartite Life of St. Patricl!, ed. Stokes, p. 204. 



2 For their lives, see P. Power's edition in vol. xvi of the Irish Texts Society. 



3 For the text of the charter, see C. A, Webster, Diucese of Cur];, 1920, p. 375. The 

 date is fixed by the fact that Christian's successor was in office in 1179, while the pre- 

 decessor of another episcopal witness (Gregory of Cork) died in 1172. 



■» Migne, PL. ccxvi. 234 (Epist. 48 of Innocent III), 



