The Bishop of Ardmore was an

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title which took its name after the monastic settlement of Ardmore in

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. Ardmore was not included in the list of Irish dioceses approved at the

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, but is named as a church which claimed the right to a bishopric. A bishop of Ardmore took the oath of fealty to

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in 1172. Bishop Eugenius appears as a witness to a charter some years later, and he also acted as a suffragan bishop in the

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in 1184 and 1185. Ua Selbaig, who died at Cork in 1205, may have been bishop of Ardmore or of Ross. By the late 12th century, Ardmore was incorporated into Lismore.

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