DR. CROKE APPOINTED ARCH BISHOP OF CASHEL, IRELAND.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2033, 10 July 1875, Page 2

DR. CROKE APPOINTED ARCH BISHOP OF CASHEL, IRELAND.

The Very Rev. Father Walter Macdonald has received' information, to-day i that the, Eight Rev. Dr. Croke, Bishop of Auckland, has been appointed Archbishop of Cashel, The information does not come officially, butis based on the statement that a cablegram to that effecthad been re*, ceived in Sydney.' There caii be no doubt, however, of its' aocuracy. We take the following information relative to Cashel. from Chambers' Encyclopaedia:— "Cashel is a town of Ireland; in Tipperary country, and is 105 miles south-east of Dublin. Is irregularly built on the south and east' slopes of an isolated height, rising abruptly from a rich and extensive plain. Population 1841, 7036; 1851, 4798.

Cashel is a bishop's see, and returns one member to Parliament. -The ancient kingsofMunsterlivedhere. Thetopofthe height, or ' Rock of* Cashel," is occupied, by an assemblage-of '; the most interesting I ruins in Ireland, which have a grand effect' from thei country; around. The ruins consist of a, cathedral,: ithe? ]arges|; and most remarkable in.thescountry^lbunded ■» 1169, burned 1495, *ahd afterwards re-" paired ; a stone-roofed chapel, built 1127 by Oof mac king of and the most perfect specimen of the kind* in the country yiHore Abbey r : founded 1260; • the-palace of the New Munster kings-;, and a round tower 90 ieetfhigliy r and 56 feet in circumfeience. The found tower is; built of freestone, and the: other ruins of'limestone, AtC, in 1172, the great synod -was held in which the Irish; prelates first acknowledged the authority of the English King and Church."— Auckland Star.