| Documented AssociationGives the names of Early Christian ecclesiastics (the DIB terms such individuals often regarded as founders of churches — saints in the Irish tradition), whose association with the sites concerned is based on documentary sources. | Liber (Mo-Libba); Muchian |
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| LineageThis records the reputed ancestral lines of individuals given in Doc Assoc. | Dál nAraide/Dál Messin Corb |
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| DioceseThis records the medieval (not necessarily the same as the modern) diocese in which the foundation lies. | Dublin? |
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| CountyGives the county in which the barony lies. | Dublin/Kildare? |
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| ProvinceGives both the civil province in which the county lies and the ecclesiastical province to which the diocese belongs. | Leinster; Dublin |
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| SourcesThis is concerned almost exclusively with hagiographical sources (mainly Lives of the saints, martyrologies and genealogies of the saints) and relates to the individuals and lineages in Doc Assoc and Lineage. | VSH Salm; VSH (Cainnech §19; 15); Mart.T (30 Mar); Mart.G; Mart.D; LL 367f 18; BB 125a |
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| Recorded HistoryThis concerns the subsequent history of the site, with emphasis on pre-Norman (or early post-Norman) native sources mainly annals but also including medieval ecclesiastical records (charters or taxations), English Crown documents and, on occasion, modern sources (especially surveys or maps, which may mark the location of lost sites or illuminate placenames). | Ann.Ult - see clerics |
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| Clerical StatusThis seeks to classify foundations as episcopal coarbial or eremitic based on the clerical orders ascribed to the reputed founder, the later succession-record or the placename of the site. | coarbial |
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| GenderThis seeks to classify foundations as male or female based on the gender of the reputed founder, the later succession-record or the placename of the site. | male |
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| Succession RecordLists ecclesiastics, male or female, who succeeded to offices at the foundation concerned abbots, abbesses, comarbai, bishops often clerics of less exalted rank such as treasurers, lectors, scribes. These lists make no claim to be exhaustive; fuller accounts for major sites can be found in the New History of Ireland, vol. 8, and in published prosopographies. | abb: 779; scriba: 773 |
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| Familial LinksIndicates links between foundations, whether claimed in hagiographical sources (a lesser site said to have submitted to greater site), attested by charter, or indicated by tradition or placename evidence. | Cainnech/Aghaboe? |
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| BibliographyMentions secondary references (sometimes very select indeed) to the site concerned. Some contain detailed discussion, others (especially where little else seems to be available) only the briefest mentions. For details see the Bibliography page. | Hogan 1910, 484, 487; Ó Riain 1985, 327; MacShamhráin 1996, 117, 191 |
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| AddendumIncludes fragments of additional information (or
comments on the part of the compilers) relating to the site in question. | in line with Odba, Fáendruim; nr R. Liffey; nth of Lucan?; Liber subj to Cainnech (VSH) |
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