Description

The development of diocesan administration—the careful record-keeping of parishes, bishops, and ecclesiastical endowments—holds an extraordinary, highly fragile archive of institutional history. The Diocese of Kilmore – c1100-1800 delivers a masterly, data-driven structural audit investigating the institutional growth, religious impact, and administrative evolution of this prominent Irish diocese.

The text looks deeply into parish burial registries, episcopal visitor reports, and land tenure deeds to evaluate the practical functional operations of the church