Catalogue description Concerning the country the same things are found as in Giraldus, Cap. XIX. Appendix.

There were no archbishops in Ireland, but the bishops mutually consecrated each other until John Papiro and Christian bishop of Lismore, legates of the Roman See, came into Ireland. St. Patrick died in the 120th year of his age, A.D. 458, in the eighteen hundredth year since the advent of the Irish. The bodies of Patrick, St. Bridget, and St. Columba are said to have been buried in the city of Doune. This is true of St. Bridget, but as to St. Columba it is much doubted.

In the year 449 the Saxons came to England. Bede.

In 683 Egfridus King of the Northumbrians devastated Ireland, though prohibited by Cuthbert bishop of Lisdisfarn, who was born in Ireland at Kilmackdryke.

In the next year the same King made war against the Picts.

In 707 Father Adrian, the abbot, was archbishop Theodore's coadjutor.

In 1087 Waterford was burnt.

In 1095 Donogh bishop of Dublin died.

The Norwegians or Oestmani, who then occupied the cities and coasts of Ireland, were called Normans.

1122 Samuel the fourth bishop of Dublin died.

1129 Celestine archbishop and primate died, chosing St. Malachias as his successor, and was buried at Lismore.

1137 Malachy archbishop of Armagh appointed Gelasius archbishop, and returned to his own diocese, but not to the city of Connor (Connensis), because that diocese had in olden time two episcopal sees, which ambition had united, but Malachias separated them, and retained the smaller for himself, and settled at Down.

1139. The abbot and monks (Turensis) of St. Mary's near Dublin, hitherto called Gresei [Sic.] monachi, became Cistercian.

Then follows a criticism on the similarity of the two words Benghorensis and Bangorensis, with references to St. Bernard's Life of St. Malachias and Bede.

1142. Foundation of the Abbey of Melfont.

1148. Death of St. Malachias. Cardinal Johannes Papiro papal Legate in Ireland.

1151. The Abbies of Bective, Boyle, Mayo, and De Valle Salutis, founded.

1152. Christian bishop of Lismore held as Legate a Council in Mell, [Sic.] at which kings, princes, bishops, &c. were present, and he constituted four archbishoprics in Ireland, Sc. Armagh, Cassell, Dublin, and Tuam.

1154. The Abbey of Keynleyson in Kerry was founded.

1158. Death of Donatus first archbishop of Cashel.

1161. Death of Edanus archbishop of Tuam.

1162. Death of Gregorius first archbishop of Dublin. Succeeded by Laurentius, abbot of St. Kevin's, Glindelagh.

----. [Sic.] Murder of Maurice, King of Ireland, who was succeeded by Rotheric O'Canthur, [Sic.] Prince of Connaught.

Same year Dermot, son of Murchard prince of Leinster, took away the wife of Maurice, king of Meath, then absent on an expedition.

Account of the feud between them and the invasion of the English.