Muiris Ó Fithcheallaigh

[1] Benignus Millett OFM, suggests that he joined the Conventual Franciscans at Kilnalehin, and received his initial training in the studium attached to the friary.

[4] He did not return to Ireland till 1513, in the meantime attending as Archbishop of Tuam the first two sessions of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512).

On leaving for Ireland to take formal possession of his see, O'Fihely procured from the pope an indulgence for all those who would be present at his first Mass in Tuam.

However, he was destined not to reach Tuam, for he fell ill in Galway and died there in the Franciscan convent.

[5] His learning and scholarship were held in very high esteem during his own time, and some of his notes on Duns Scotus were valued over a century later.