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Title: A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ball, F. Erlington (Francis Elrington), d. 1928
Subjects: Dublin (Ireland : County) -- History
Publisher: Dublin : Alex. Thom
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ones,and a cross with a figure in high relief, are now all tliat remains;Init when the site was visited by Eugene OCurry in connectionwith the Ordnance Survey, there was a considerable portion ofthe walls standing, and the owner of the modern Shanganagh (M See Christian Sepulchral Leacs of the Dublin Half Barony of Rathdown,by P. J. OReilly in the Journal U.S.A.I., vol. x.wi., pp. 137-140. (2) See paper on The Primitive Churches in the County Dublin, by W. F.Wakenuin in the Journal B.S.A.L, vol. xxi., p. TOO; also r/. Rathuiichael, byJohn S. Sloane in The Irish Lilerari/ lazdte. vol. ii., p. 102, and Ordnance SurveyLetters in Royal Iri^h Academy, p. 70, where the existence of an luideigroundpassage is mentioned. (a) OHanlons Lives of the Irish Saints, vol. v., pp. 152-184. _. , ,, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 93 Castle at that time. General Cockburne, was anxious to have thechurch restored and again used for divine worship. OCurrymentions tiiat humari Ixmes had been found near the cliurch,
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Site of Kiltuck Church. From a photograph by Mr. Thomas Mason. and that to the south-east of the structure there had been anothersmall square building, and de:^cribes as well as the cross somecut stones, which he found near the church, and part of another 94 PARISH OF RATHMICHAEL. cross which had been built into one of the lodges. The foundationof tlie church is attributed by OCurry to a saint called Tucha, andit is mentioned in the Bull of 1179, which defines the extent of thedioceses of Dublin and Glendalougli, as being in the formerdiocese (i). Rathmichael, which, it has been suggested, derives its name froma saint called Mac Tail, and which was confirmed after the Anglo-Norman conquest to the See of Dublin, became before the year1227 the second subdiaconal prebend in St. Patricks Cathedral.Of its early prebendaries little is known. The first mentioned isGodfrey de Insula, who died in 1274. He had been appointed bythe Archbishop of Dublin, with whom the patronage rested; buthis suc

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