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Description of arms. Azure beneath a triple architectural canopy three figures, in the centre the Blessed Virgin Mary holding in her arms the Holy Child, between, on the dexter the figure of a bishop (St Jarlath) in pontificalibus and in the act of benediction, and, on the sinister St John supporting with his left arm a lamb argent, each in proper vestments or, the hands, feet, and faces proper.
Tuam, Killala and Achonry
BISHOPS
Murrough O'Nioc 1032
Hugh O'Hessian 1085
Cathusach Ua Conaill 1117
O Clerig 1137
Muiredach Ua Dubhthaig 1150
ARCHBISHOPS
1152 Aed Ua h-Oisin [Edanus]
1167 Cadhla Ua Dubhthaig [Catholicus]
1202 Felix Ua Ruanada
1236 Mael Muire O Lachtain [Marianus]
1250 Flann Mac Flainn [Florentius]
[1256 James O'Laghtnan, not confirmed or consecrated]
1257 Walter de Salerno
1258 Tomaltach O Conchobair [Thomas]
1286 Stephen de Fulbourn
1289 William de Bermingham
1312 Mael Sechlainn Mac Aeda
1348 Tomas MacCerbhaill [MacCarwill]
1364 Eoin O Grada
1372 Gregory O Mochain I
1384 Gregory O Mochain II
1387 William O Cormacain
1393 Muirchertach mac Pilb O Cellaigh
1410 John Babingle
1411 Cornelius
1430 John Bermingham [Winfield]
1438 Tomas mac Muirchearthaigh O Cellaigh
1441 John de Burgo
1452 Donatus O Muiredaigh
1485 William Seoighe [Joyce]
1503 Philip Pinson
1506 Muiris O Fithcheallaigh
1514 Tomas O Maolalaidh
1537 Christopher Bodkin
1573 William O'Mullally [or Lealy]
Annadown united to Tuam c.1555
Mayo united to Tuam 1559
1595 Nehemiah Donnellan
1609 William O'Donnell [or Daniel]
1629 Randolph or Ralph Barlow
1638 Richard Boyle
1645 John Maxwell
1661 Samuel Pullen
1667 John Parker
1679 John Vesey
1716 Edward Synge
1742 Josiah Hort
1752 John Ryder
1775 Jemmett Browne
1782 Joseph Dean Bourke [afterwards Earl of Mayo]
1794 William Beresford [afterwards Baron Decies]
1819 Power le Poer Trench
Killala united to Tuam from 1834
BISHOPS
1839 Thomas Plunket [afterwards Baron Plunket]
1867 Charles Brodrick Bernard
1890 James O'Sullivan
1913 Benjamin John Plunket
1920 Arthur Edwin Ross
1923 John Ort
1928 John Mason Harden
1932 William Hardy Holmes
1939 John Winthrop Crozier
1958 Arthur Hamilton Butler
1970 John Coote Duggan
1986 John Robert Winder Neill
1998 Richard Crosbie Aitken Henderson
2011 Patrick William Rooke
2022 Michael Andrew James Burrows