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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Elphin
		Patrick also founded at Elphin an episcopal monastery or college, one of the first monasteries founded by him, and placed Assicus over it, in which office he was succeeded by Bite.
		Ware states that after the union with Elphin of the minor sees of Roscommon, Ardcarne, Drumcliffe, and other bishoprics of less note, finally effected by the Synod of Kells (1152), the see was esteemed one of the richest in all Ireland, and had about seventy-nine parish churches.
		The present Diocese of Elphin includes nearly the whole of the county of Roscommon, with large portions of Sligo and Galway.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05394b.htm (1018 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Folktales
		Elphin would much rather have stayed home with his wife and foster son, but as a dutiful subject (and a relative of the king besides) he went.
		Elphin was an honest man, and he couldn't honestly say that the king's bards were better or the queen a fairer woman, than those waiting at his home.
		As soon as Elphin was brought out, Taliesin stopped the wind, and sang a new song that caused Elphin's chains to fall away from his ankles and wrists.
	www.pantheon.org /areas/folklore/folktales/articles/taliesin.html (2496 words)

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