Cornelius M'Gelany was an Irish

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries: the first recorded

Archdeacon of Kildare The Archdeacon of Kildare was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Kildare until 1846 when it became an office within the Archdiocese of Dublin, Kildare and Glendalough and since 1976, an office in the united Diocese of Meath an ...

(1190–1206)."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p245

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878

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