Enciclopedia Cattolica

Cashel and Emly, Archdiocese of

CASHEL E EMLY, ARCIDIOCESI DI

Volume III · p. 574 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CASHEL and EMLY, ARCHDIOCESE of. - In Eire (Ireland). The name of this metropolitan see is an English transliteration of the Gaelic Caiseal, meaning a stone fort. The Rock of C., which gave its name to the diocese, was for several centuries the residence of the kings of Münster and contains the ruins of medieval ecclesiastical buildings. The origin of the diocese is generally placed in the 10th century. It became a metropolitan see in 1152.

Among its archbishops, Dennot O'Hurley deserves special mention; after terrible tortures, he was condemned to death for the faith in Dublin by the English authorities in 1583. The cause of his martyrdom is now under examination by the S. Congregation of Rites. Since 1567 the diocese of Emly, founded by St. Ailbe in the 5th century, has been united to C.

In the two united dioceses there are 46 parishes, 88 churches, 170 diocesan priests, 55 regular religious, 7 houses of lay religious, and 20 communities of nuns. The Catholics in the archdiocese numbered 97,812 in the census of 1936. Its suffragans are: Cloyne, Cork, Emly, Kerry and Aghadoe, Killaloe, Limerick, Ross, Waterford and Lismore.

BIBL.: J. Lanigan, Ecclesiastical history of Ireland, 4 vols., Dublino 1822; S. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols., Londra 1837; Annals of the four Masters, ed. J. O'Donovan, 7 vols., 2nd ed., Dublino 1856 (cf. vol. VII, Index, s. V. Caiseal); W. M. Brady, Episcopal succession of England, Scotland and Ireland, 3 vols., Roma 1876-77 (v. indice); J. F. Kennet, Sources for the early history of Ireland, I, Nuova York 1929 (v. indice: Caiseal in Munster); Irish Catholic Directory and Almanach 1949, Dublino 1949, pp. 264-71. Dionisio Mac Daid
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