Séamus Mac Cathmhaoil Explained

Séamus Mac Cathmhaoil aka James MacCawell^[1] was the first Anglican Archbishop of Cashel.^[2]

He was nominated on 12 February 1567^[3] and appointed by letters patent on 2 October that year.^[4] He died in office in 1570.^[5]

References

1. http://ccedb.cch.kcl.ac.uk/jsp/bishops/index.jsp?ordTenID=1439 CCEd
2. http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=960 Crockfords
3. "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Cotton, H Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860
4. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X . 400–401.
5. "A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976