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4 unusual facts about Milo Sweetman


Clones Abbey

received collation of the comorbania or rectory of Clones from primate Milo Sweetman's commissaries in the diocese of Clogher, this appointment was subsequently ratified by the primate himself.

Dromiskin

Aed Finliath, High King of Ireland, is buried in Dromiskin Graveyard, but no one knows where; Archbishop Milo Sweetman is also buried here.

Milo Sweetman

In 1374 he defeated an attempt by the Lord Deputy of Ireland, William de Windsor, to dispense with the Irish Parliament by ordering the clergy and laity of the Pale to attend the English Parliament.

Having governed the Primatial See for nineteen years he died in 1380, and is buried in Dromiskin, Co.Louth.



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