Séamus Mac Cathmhaoil aka James MacCawell was the first

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Archbishop of Cashel The Archbishop of Cashel ( ga, Ard-Easpag Chaiseal Mumhan) was an archiepiscopal title which took its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. Following the Reformation, there had been parallel apostolic successions to the title ...

. He was nominated on 12 February 1567 and appointed by

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on 2 October that year. He died in office in 1570."A New History of Ireland" Moody,T.W; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,A: Oxford, OUP, 1976

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