Thomas Flynn was an

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clergyman who served as

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from 1718 to 1730.Bishop Thomas Flynn
''Catholic Hierarchy website''. Retrieved on 9 April 2010. Thomas Flynn was born in 1652 at Errew in Gortlettragh, Co. Leitrim.Bishop Thomas Flynn
www.aughavascloone.ie During the Penal Laws, he studied for the priesthood, in France. He studied in the faculty of law, gaining a BCL (1692), a LCL (1693) and a DCL (1696). Dr Flynn was appointed

by a

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on 18 May 1718 and

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on 15 July 1718. Bishop Flynn was suspended by the Primate

Hugh MacMahon Hugh MacMahon (1660–1737) was Bishop of Clogher 1707–1715 and Archbishop of Armagh 1715–1737. Born in 1660 in the townland of Cavany, Scotshouse, County Monaghan, Ireland, the son of Colla Dubh Mac Mahon of the Dartry branch ...

in 1729, for ordaining unsuitable candidates for the priesthood.''Comhairle Mhic Clamha Ó Achadh Na Muilleann'' edited by Seosamh ó Dufaigh and Brian Rainey. He died in office on 29 January 1730. His death in 1730 was disputed, supported by letters in the Stuart Court, which led to the delay in his successor Peter Mulligan becoming Bishop until 1732. Bishop Flynn was buried in the Cloone cemetery, County Leitrim. The original headstone was defaced but a new one was erected and consecrated to his memory in 1975.

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