Ardcarne, which was an ancient see is situated in the barony of Boyle. St. Beoadh, son of Olcan, was of royal descent and of a very generous disposition, he has been held in high estimation in the Irish calendars. The death of this sainted bishop occurred on the 8th of March 524. The name is a compound of Beo, animated or lively, and Aidh, Hugh.
AD 1225 died the archdeacon Dionysius O'Mulkyran
AD 1240 Gilla-na-naomh O'Dreain, dean of this abbey, died.
It is not ascertained when the monastery of Ardcarne was erected or who has been the founder. In the thirty fifth of Elizabeth it was discovered by the royal inquisitors that the abbot of Ardcarne was seized of the townland of Clonecalliagh and eight acres of land with the tithes the townland of Clonefinlaghe, two parts of a quarter of land the tithes &c., the lands of Kilfegan and Killgefin with their tithes. The good queen who did not abhor courts of inquisition while they were useful in discovering the property of the Catholic church granted this monastery and its appurtenances to Trinity College, Dublin, and this Protestant college, mainly supported by the spoils of the Catholic church, with true Protestant feeling and liberality, closes its dignities to the Catholic student unless that Catholic sacrifices his religious convictions to the Moloch of Protestant ascendancy.
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