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. . HISTOBP 03 mBICg* Jn the County C h Bev. Barth, M'Namara, who died during the vacancy of the see, and succeeded by the Rev. Christopher Bermingham, pastor of Keilcuan, being part of St, Patrick's, and of part of St. Munchin's, and of part of Keillel Rev. John Herbert, pastor of Keilfintsnan, and of Cra 9' oe, being part of Keillely. In the County of Limerick. Rev. W i Murphy, -. pastor of St. Patrick's, and of Keilmurry, and of Derrighalavin. Bea. James White, pastor of Donougbore, and of Cabirivahala, and of - - c m . No. 2 The decanate of Kilmallock. Rev. Francie Nolan, pastor of Fedemore. &v. Robert Hayes, pastor of Tullybraoky, of Glanogry, of Bd, of Kyrane, of Camas, of Grange, of Kishemedeady. Rev. John O'Brien, pastor of Kilmallock. Rev. David Burke, pastor of EEU. Rev. Patrick Stanton, pastor of Brury. Rev. Thomas Fitzgersld, pastor of Drommin, of Athlscky. Rev. John Hayes, pastor of Kilbridymsjor, of Ballinaneasy. Rev. Timothy Hayes, pastor of Keilfinny. Rev. John Shinnick, pastor of Darragh. No. 3. The dewte of Adare. &v, John Hynes, pastor of Mungrett. Rev. Daniel King, pastor of Adsre, of Keilchidy. Rev. Ambrose Connorq pastor of Croagh. Rev. Edmund Higgins, pastor of Croome. Rev. William Cronine, pastor of Castletown, of Nesntenan. Rev. Nicholas Moloney, pastor of Keildimy. Xev. Patrick Moore, pastor of Rathkeale. Rev. Patrick Myi., pastor of Keilscannell. No. 4. The decanate of Ballingamy or Ardagh. Rev. John Begley, capitular vicar, pastor of Newcastle and Monaghea Rev. Darby Connors, pastor of Ballingarry. Rev. James O'Brien, pastor of Glin, of Loghill. Rev. William Hourgm, pastor of Mahnnagh. Rev. Daniel Hurley, pastor of Knocldery. Rev. Philip Nolan, pastor of Shamgolden. &v. Maurice Deeneen, pastor of Rathgonane. &v. Daniel Rourke, pastor of Ardagh. Bev. James Barry, pastor of Keilidy. Rev. Luke Collinq pastor of Abbeyfeale. Rev. James Scanlan, pastor of Drumcollaher. ltev. Edmund Dillane, pastor of Asbaton. Our readers are now aware that there were two bishop Lacy in the aocese of Liierick, one in the sixteenth century, who suffered much persecution &m Queen Elizabeth, and of whom a tradition prevails m his family that he was executed. The other bishop, Robert LW to the religious changes of the revolution, and compelled to P de the rehgiow service9 of the C&holic Chd under a bushePS in highwage and HISTORY OX' LIMERICK. 621 bye-ways'. Bishop Robert Lac was one of the sons of Pierre or Pierce Lacy and Arabella Goold, daug E tcr of Robert Goold, of Knockrawn, by Eda, daughter of Mathew O'Connor.! Dr. Lacy, while enjoying the bishopric of Limerick, was administrator of the diocese of Kilfenora, by Dr. Daly, bishop who remained at Tournay in France. He conferred h01 orders, and subsequently, on the 23rd December, 1738, priesthood, on d e Rev. James White, compiler of White's MS§. He supplied his diocese with clergy by sending young students to foreign countries to study, where they received sacred orders, and then came home to the mission, which they generally discharged with distin~ished fidelity. During his episcopacy the of the country ruled w~th an iron rod, iespective of lsn or order. occasion, Thomas O'Dell, Esq., the principal man in the parish of Ballingamy, caused the Rev. Christopher Bermingham to fly to France because he was obnoxious to him, for no other reason than that he, O'Dell, preferred the parish should be given to another eler Owing to the terrible fa- which prevailed in 1744, Dr. O'Kee r e, and ' the other bishops of Ireland, granted rr reluxation to the people of the Lenten fast. He saw religion, however, revive h some respects. He made o surrender of the old parish chapel outsideThomond Gate,which waa tumblin to decay,and when a little more freedom was panted, the clergy were ena % led to take a small waste malt house in the Little Island, of which they made a parish chapel, until they were tolerated to build a better, which was the case in 1749, when the The Bishop, newrding to tho infomntion imparted to us by Messrs. De Lacy Pearce and Nephewsof London, had several brothers and sisters, one David Lacy, in the Spanish service, who died 1786. A sister Catherine married to David Mahony, the great grand-parents of the late celebrated Dublin solicitors, Pierce Mahony and David Mahony, Esqm., of Dublin and county Kerry (1860). Another brother was Patrick of Rathiogill, who was a colonel in the Spanish service, and died in 1723 in Spain. Another brother, George Lacy, of Leitrim, by marriage with his eamnd cowin, Fann Lac ,(daughter of Patrick Lacy and Lady Lucy Ankettle, the ancestors of the RathcahiU and $empf,glantan branch, from which came General Maurice of GrodnoJ united the two branches of the family, the Spanish and the Austrian exiles. Another of the bwnch wan Fwnpia Antoine Lacy, afterwards count and general in the Spanish service, and a diplomatist. He is described in the French biographies as 'I of an ancient and illustrious Irish family, which resided in Spain under Marshal de Berwick, born in 1731, and commenced his military onreer, at the age of sixteen as ensign in the Irish regiment of Ultonia infantry. He served in oampaigns in Italy in 1747, was made colonel of his regiment in 1762-i~ war against Portugal nominated commander of artilery in 1780, and employed at the famous siege of Gibraltar. After the peace of 1783 he was minister and plenipotentiary in Russia and Sweden, made commandantyrsl of 1s C6te of Grenada, and died at Barcelona, Dec. 31, 1792, full of honours. Lonia e Lacy, his descendant, was born on the 11th January, 1775, at St. Roch, near Gibraltar. " Ayantprdu de son enfance son pere Patrick de Lacy, qui Btait major du regiment d'Ultonine, et m mire etant die rejoindre wsfr6res officers" in the regiment of Bmssels infant Lacy nt nine yean entered as cadet in the regiment Ultonia. In 1794 he became captain, anTwas employed against the French in Catalonia until the peace of Bale in 1795. In 1798 was exiled to the Isle of For, condemned to imprisonment, sent to Cadiz, and he U solicited the honour to serve as a simple grenadier in the campaign of 1801 against Portngal. He left for France, and in 1803 smved at Boulo e. He entered the 6th regiment of infantry as a common soldier. General Clark&. de%tre) having narrated the adventures of hi parent to Bonnparte, obtained for Mn t e brevet of captain in the Irish regiment of O'Conuor, organized at Morlaix. In 1807 he wag nominated chef du batal. Irlande in the army of Murat in Spain, but Lacy determined not to war against his country. Disguised as a female he reached Madrid, 2nd May, 1808, was msde lieutenant-colonel, and after a long series of services to Spain, and promotion and honour in the wars until the peace of 1815, he in 1817 joined the constitdtionalists, and on the 6th Aphpril reclaimed it in Valencia. He was abandoned, arrested, and condemned to death, and on 20th ]me, l8l7,shot by w1diers of S Neapolitan regiment. In 1820 his body was traqm?ed to helona. The Csrtes, for honour of his memory, nominated his eon *premier gmdm of the S aniah army", who distingaiehed himeelf. &de% MSS.
622 .. HISTORY OF LIMERICK. citizens liberally subscribed for what was then designated " a sum tuous parish chapel", on a plot of ground in the Little Island, which was ta en on the 20th of March, 1748, from Alderman Ingram, at the yearly rent of S10, and on which they built the present St. Mary's chapel. It was ruled that each parishioner should take his place in the chapel in proportion to the magmtude of his subscription. The shell of the new house of worship was finished in the beginning of December, 1749, and first Masses were said in it within the octave of the ImmacuPate Conccption, on the 10th of that month, by the Very Rev. Dean Creagh, P.P. of St. Mary's, the Rev. M. MLMahon, pastor of St. Nicholas' and vicar of St. Mary's, and by the Rev. James White, pastor of the Abbey of St. Francis.' Dr. O'Keeffe proclaimed the great Papal jubilee throughout his diocese in 1750, being the fiftieth year of the century, and granted for the whole ycar by Pope Benedict XIV. It is stated that it produced the very best effects on the people. In the same year, on the death of the Right Hev. Or. Daly, the diocese of Kilfenora and Kilmacduagh were united by PO e Benedict, who granted his bull to that effect to the Right Rev. Dr. Ki P duae likclly, Bishop of Kilmac- Dr. O'Keeffe had frequent interviews during his episcopacy with the ost Rev. Dr. Christophcr Butler, Archbisho of Cashcl: and his coab jutor bishop, the Most Rev. Dr. James Butler, W 1 o succeeded him in the archic iscopacy, particularly in reference to certain scandals which were cause B in the city of Limerick, in consequence of the resistance of the Sev. Patiick Scanlan, P.P. of St. Munchin's, to his lordship's authority. On thrcc occasions thc Rev. P. Scanlan appealed to the archbishop and his grace's coadjutor, and from them to the Papal Nuncio at Brussels, each and all giving an unqualified decision in favour of Dr. O'Keeffe, who inanifested prudence, firmness, and zeal, in the exercise of his high office. In the midst of political feuds he was firm, and resisted, with his episcopal brethren of Munster, including the Archbishop of Cashel, a certain pwtoral letter which the Most Rev. Michael O'Reilly, Archbishop of Armagh, had forwarded to be shed by the chiefs of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, and all &c pansh priests serving in parishes throughout the kingdom 1 '-a pastoral slavish in its tone to a persecuting government, and unworth of men who were galled by the idction of the penal laws. After a life o f laborious exertion and mwearied zeal, Dr. Lacy gave up his pure spirit to the Creator, on the 4th August, 1759, at the hour of a quarter to four o'clqck, a.m., having goverend hs diocese for the space of twenty-one and a-half years, with the greatest moderation, prudence, and ap lause"? He had been ill for a few years, and his death was like his life, I, serene, and hopeful. He was slow in punishing, as he used all other means to reclaim, but resolute and determined when duty called for the exercise of authority. Entreaties could not move, nor threata deter him, whenever hi resolution was taken. By Frotestants and Catholics he W* held in merited respect and re ad. No man could be at the same time more loved and feared by his I c era. His body was removed fEom 1 m's MSS. Hi Gnba died at West& on the 4th September, 1757. He was born at Kiloash, in 1673, and resigned hispatemalestate mdtheri ht of smxsion to the Duke of Ormonde's estate and the Earldom of Arran, to his younger brotfer, in order to embrace the ecclesiastical eatate. He was 45 ears Archbiiop of Caahel, with the greatest applause, aud waa 84 years of age when died. if. was buried in the family mdt of the ~~tlers at ~rntcorrrt. W 8 MS& i HISTORY OF LIMERICK. 623 Limerick to Magh, his native place, on the 5th of August, where, b his own orders, he was interred with the rest of his family, and where an l! urn- ble tomb stone, which was erected by the Right Rev. Dr. Young, very many years afterwards, marks the grave of the apostolic prelate:-- Beneath this stone are deposited the mortal remains of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Robert Lacy' who was B. C. B. of Limerick 24 yeam He departed thislife Augt. 4th' 1759. R. I. P. Tmmediately after the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Lacy, the Very Rev. Dean Creagh cited all the members of the chapter, and all the parish priests of the diocese, to assemble at St. John's chapel, " near the gates of Limerick",' at eleven o'clock a.m., on the 8th cf August, 1759, for the purpose of electing a vicar ca~itular to govern the see until a successor to the decewed bishop should be appointed by the court of Rome. With exception of three, who were absent from illness, all the parish priesta of the diocese obeyed the summons of the dean. The pastor of Ki1hane, the Rev. Timothy Hayes, who was also absent, ap ointed the Rev. John O'Brien, P.P. of Kilmallock, as his procurator. 5 t was debated for some time whether the election lay solely with the canons, of whom seven were present, or with the canons and ~arish ~riests together. Without putting the question to a vote, the canons waived what the conceived to be their exclusive privilege, lest the Archbishop of Cashe r should question their election or annul it. It was judged proper, accordingly, in reference to the tenor of the Papal letter of 1755; that the canons and parish priests should give their suffrages; when the Very Rev. Dean Creagh appeared from the scrutiny to have been elected by a great majority of votes; on which an act to that effect was drawn up and signed by the following priests, and witnessed and sealed by the Rev. Edward O'Brien, Notary of the Apostolic See, and the Rev. James White, Notary Apostolic:- David Bourke, Chancellor. Daniel O'ICearney, S.F. Par. Walter Bourke, Prebend. Doctor and Pastor St. Pa- Lake &Cols, Preb. trick's. James Barry, Preb. John De Lacy, S.T.D. and Rec- Robert @He% Preb. tor of Ballingarry. Edward OBrien, Preb. Rowland Kirby, Doctor of Thew John Herbert. logy, and P.P. of St. Mm- Francis Nowlan. chin's, Limerick. John Chennigh. Daniel Gnery. James Dundon. John Lyne. Maurice Welsh. Thaddew O'Hea. Matthew Corbett. John Walsh. William Marshall. John Creagh. John Hanrahan, S.F. Parisi* - Paul Slattery. ensis, Doctor Theologng Jwph Egan. Wi%m Hourigan, .?avid Hourigan. Maurice Ley. Maarice Shaughnessy. James Lynch. John O'Brien. Daniel O'Brien. Jarnes White. Constantins O'DanieL Sylvester Mdcaire. James Barnett. Martin O'Cvnnor. On the following day, viz., the 9th of Aupt, at the same place, the same canons and p&h priests proceeded by scrutiny to postulate and elect
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