Patrick Barrett (died 10 November 1415) was an

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who held

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and

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high offices in Ireland.

Biography

Patrick Barrett was an

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Kells Priory ''Kells Priory'' () is one of the largest medieval monuments in Ireland. The Augustine priory is situated alongside King's River beside the village of Kells in the townland of Rathduff (Madden), about 15 km south of the medieval city of ...

in the

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. He succeeded Thomas Dene as

Bishop of Ferns The Bishop of Ferns () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Ferns in County Wexford, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishopr ...

. He was consecrated Bishop of Ferns in

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in December 1400. After returning to Ireland, Barrett was restored to possession of the temporalities on 11 April 1401. Barrett built a tower house at Mountgarret in 1408. He was justice and Keeper of the Peace for Wexford. He was

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from 1410 to 1412, and was then superseded by

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. Despite complaints, common throughout the Middle Ages in Ireland, about "the dangers of the roads" he was able to go on assize in

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and South

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in 1410 to hear "certain urgent causes". ''Patent Roll 11 Henry IV'' He appropriated the church of Ardcolm to

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(the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul) in

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. He moved the diocesan seat from Ferns to

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, due to the chronic political disturbance in Ferns. He helped to suppress a

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in Wexford in 1412.Ball, F.Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 p. 178 He compiled a catalogue of his predecessors in the see of Ferns. He died on 10 November 1415 and was buried at Kells Priory. He was succeeded as Bishop of Ferns by Robert Whittey, who held the See for forty years and lived to be almost ninety.

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