Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, 2019
A history of pastoral care and the parish in Ireland from the seventh century until circa 1300 AD... more A history of pastoral care and the parish in Ireland from the seventh century until circa 1300 AD, showing how pastoral care evolved into a parish system against a background of reform movements and the Anglo-Norman invasion. Terms such as mother-church, tuath-church, vicarage and rectory all come into play, as does the Gregorian parish system, imported from England to replace the pre-existing Irish parish system, based on the tuath, the local community.
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