. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . in ormeadow near the Shannon shore, at the eastern ex-tremity of the County Galway. The diocese wasnearly coextensive %vith the tribe-land of the HyMany or OKelly country. It still contains twenty-four parishes in the south-east of the County Gahvav,including one small parish east of the Shannon, -whichformed a part of the ancient Hy Many territory. Therenown of Brendan as a saint and traveller by landand sea attracted from the very beginning
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . in ormeadow near the Shannon shore, at the eastern ex-tremity of the County Galway. The diocese wasnearly coextensive %vith the tribe-land of the HyMany or OKelly country. It still contains twenty-four parishes in the south-east of the County Gahvav,including one small parish east of the Shannon, -whichformed a part of the ancient Hy Many territory. Therenown of Brendan as a saint and traveller by landand sea attracted from the very beginning manymonks and students to his monastery of Clonfert, sothat it became a very famous school of sanctity andlearning, numbering at one time, it is said, no lessthan three thousand students. Brendan was not abishop himself, but he had as coadjutor, his nephewMoinenn, who, after his death, became an abbot-bishop and head of the monastic school. At a laterperiod a still more celebrated man, Cummian Fada,or Cummian the Tall, presided over the School andDiocese of Clonfert. He took a leading part in thefamous Paschal controversy and wrote a very learned. a <w < • H ou >* HP3B< ou OLONMACNOISE 65 OLONMACNOISE work on the subject, known as his Paschal Epistle,whicli fortunately still survives (P. L., LXXXVIII)and furnishes conclusive evidence of the varied learn-ing cultivated in the school of Clonfert. Clonfert being on the highway of the Shannon suf-fered greatly from the ravages of the Danes, and alsoof some Irish chieftains who imitated their bad ex-ample; yet the school and monastery lived on throughthose stormy times, and we have a fuller list of bish-ops and abbots of Clonfert than we have of any othersee, at least in the West of Ireland. It was richly en-dowed with large estates of fertile land, and hence wefind that the Bishop of Clonfert, according to a scalefixed in , paid to the papal treasury on his ap-pointment three hundred florins in gold, the Arch-bi
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