| Traditional AssociationGives the names of Early Christian ecclesiastics whose association with the sites concerned is based on tradition, dedication or placename association. | Máelán Alithir? |
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| DioceseThis records the medieval (not necessarily the same as the modern) diocese in which the foundation lies. | Raphoe |
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| CountyGives the county in which the barony lies. | Donegal |
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| ProvinceGives both the civil province in which the county lies and the ecclesiastical province to which the diocese belongs. | Ulster; Armagh |
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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). | Tax 1302-06 (Kellachay) |
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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. | airch.: 1441, 1447, 1495 (Ua Bresléin; Ua Banáin?) |
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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, 173, 328 |
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| AddendumIncludes fragments of additional information (or
comments on the part of the compilers) relating to the site in question. | alias Daire Máeláin?; early foundation? assoc with native st |
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