Chuch - Lisonuffy

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Lisonuffy is an important site in east Roscommon. It is closely connected with the Duffy Connacht family, the centre of whose territory was Lissonuffy or Lissyduffy near Strokestown, This family was remarkable for the number of distinguished ecclesiastics it produced, particularly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Among the many abbots and bishops whose names are recorded in the Annals and in the Rental of Cong Abbey, compiled by Tadhg O’Duffy in 1501, the most noteworthy were Cele (also called CadWa and Catholicus) O’Duffy, Archbishop of Tuam, who was King Roderick O’Connor’s ambassador to Henry II in 1175, and Muiredagh O’Duffy (1075-1150), also Archbishop of Tuam. Survey funded by Roscommon County Council as part of the Heritage Research