Patrick Barrett

Patrick Barrett (died 10 November 1415) was an Irishman who held religious and secular high offices in Ireland.

For other people named Patrick Barrett, see Patrick Barrett (disambiguation).

Biography

Patrick Barrett was an Augustinian Canon at Kells Priory in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory, County Kilkenny.[1] He succeeded Thomas Dene as Bishop of Ferns.[2] He was consecrated Bishop of Ferns at Rome in December 1400. After returning to Ireland, Barrett was restored to possession of the temporalities on 11 April 1401.[1]

Barrett built a tower house at Mountgarret in 1408.[3] He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1410 to 1412. He was suspended by Thomas Cranley. He appropriated the church of Ardcolm to Selskar Abbey (the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul) in Wexford.[1] He moved the diocesan seat from Ferns to New Ross, due to the chronic political disturbance around Ferns. 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.[4]

References
  1. Patrick Barrett Ricorso.
  2. Cotton 1848, p. 333.
  3. Dempsey 2015.
  4. Cotton 1848, p. 334.

Sources
  • Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  • Dempsey, Jim (September 2015), Mountgarret Medieval Tower House, retrieved 9 October 2021
  • "Patrick Barrett", Ricorso.net, retrieved 10 October 2021


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