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figured prominently-St. Malachy and St. Laurence O'l'oole(obit 1180). Great Synods-Rathbreasail (1111) and Ceanannus(1152)-presided over by Papal Legates, established a new andcarefully planned diocesan system. Canons Regular, Cistercians,and other Religious Orders, were introduced from the Continent.It is significant that the lay Coarbs and Erenachs willingly sacrificedtheir vested rights, and appear to have accepted the Synodaldecrees without hesitation. Had they been usurpers such acquiescenceon their part would hardly have been realised : lay usurpationin the Irish Church was the exception rather than the rule.Some of the Irish monasteries adopted the rule of the CanonsRegular of St. Augustine. About 1124 St. Malachy introducedthe Canons to Bangor and a few years later his friend, IvarO'Hagan, founded a church for the Canons at Armagh. In thesame century the important monastery of Drurnlane also adoptedthe same rule.The evils of lay usurpation-do not appear to have manifestedthemselves in the <strong>Cavan</strong> monasteries. The Brehon systemwould seem to have worked smoothly until the troubles of the16th century rendered inoperative ecclesiastical organisation.In the Armagh Register of Primate Dowdall there is an interestingentry, sub nnno 1542, concerning the collation of Rev. Patrick_ Magerrigan (Garrigan) to the parish church of Moybolge. Hispredecessor, Geffredus Magergan (Geoffrey Garrigan), who hadbeen Erenach of Moybolge. had held the vicarage without hishaving been promoted to Holy Orders. The Register refers toGeffredus as " b~nae memoriae " (of happy memory) which leavesno doubt as regards his orthodoxy ; he appears to have died inthe early part of the same year. For many centuries the wellknowneast B<strong>reiffne</strong> family of Garrigan supplied the Erenachs ofMoy bolge.The relative paucity of such references in the mediaevalRegisters of Armagh may be accepted as an indication that layincumbents were comparatively rare. Even where they arementioned there is a notable absence of anything pertainingto lay usurpation. As Dr. Kenney (09. cit.) expresses it : " Theselay illcumbents of the abbatial office seem to have been for themost part men of. religion and learning who worked conscientiouslyfor the good of the Church." That there were someexceptions to this rule we must agree with Dr. Kenney's reasonedconclusions ; but these exceptions, except, perhaps, in a fewcases, can hardly have been of much importance. After thecoming of the Anglo-Normans the way was open to many abuses :Irish monastic life, especially within the precincts of the Pale,began to suffer disintegration. The breach between the Irishand the Anglo-Irish was subversive to ecclesiastical discipline,and the evil effects of these divisions for long disturbed the peaceof the country. But, notwithstanding these dissensions, an
analysis of the records of the Irish, Dioceses on the eve of. theReligious Revolt in the 16th century leads to one obvious .conclusion: that ecclesiastical organisation was still unimpaired,.and that the Irish traditional system of ecclesiastical governmenthad successfully withstood the test of centuries. In thisconnection the.Ilzyuisition return of 1609. is a document of paramountimportance preserving as it .does a unique and detailedaccount of our parochial system in mediaeval times.PHILIP O'CONNELL.
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