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- ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p141 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 p 1336: Oxford, OUP, 1929