[notes 2] See Petrie[5][2] It's unclear when Áed first became Abbot of Tuam, but it's clear his predecessor Muirgius ua Nioc, superior of Tuaim dá Gualann, died in Inis in Ghaill (Inchagoill) on Loch Corrib in 1128.
(Annals of Tighernach).As part of these negotiations the Abbey of St Finbarr of Cork was re-established with a church for Connaught Pilgrims, and Gilla Áedha Ua Maigín as Abbot.
St Finbarr himself was the son of Amergin of Maigh Seóla near Tuam, and according to Mac Carthaigh's Book, Gilla Aedha (named for Aedh Ua Oisin), who was also present at the Synod of Kells, died in 1173.
His investiture as Archbishop in 1152 was the culmination of a long negotiation by St Malachy of Armagh to secure reform of the Irish Church and settle the appointment of metropolitans by the pope, Eugenius III.
[notes 3] Initially, the papal legate Giovanni Paparoni was refused passage to Ireland by King Stephen of England in 1150, probably to protect Canterbury's traditional claim over Dublin.
But he returned in 1151, with Christian Ua Conairce, a Cistercian colleague of the Pope, who became the first Abbot of Mellifont, Bishop of Lismore, and the next papal legate.
The bisshopps of Connaught with the archbishop, hugh o'Nosyn (Hugh Hession) took their jorny to come thither & as they wer passing towards clonvicknose with 2 cowarbs of St Queran in theire company, and as they were comeing to the joysts or wodden bridge over the Syenn at Clonvicknos called Curr Clwanam, they were mett by the Rebell Carpreach the swift and his Kearne, whoe killed two laymen, and robbed the clergie, and did not suffer them to goe neer the said convocation, for another cause he had himself.