IRISH SCHOOLS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY
| SCHOOL | DATE | LOCATION | FOUNDER |
| Ardagh[1a] | —[1b] | Co. Longford | St. Patrick, d. 465 A.D.[1c] and St. Mel, d. 488 A.D. |
| Ardmore[2a] | —[2b] | Co. Waterford | St. Declan*[2c] |
| Armagh[3a] | 450–5 A.D.[3b] | Co. Armagh | St. Patrick[3c] |
| Arran[4a] | ante 484 A.D.[4b] | Co. Galway | St. Enda[4c] |
| Beg Eri[5a] | —[5b] | Co. Wexford | St. Ibar*[5c] |
| Dysart[6a] | c. 450 A.D.[6b] | Co. Louth | SS. Patrick and Dachonna[6c] |
| Emly[7a] | —[7b] | Co. Tipperary | St. Ailbe*[7c] |
| Elphin[8a] | —[8b] | Co. Roscommon | St. Asicus, d. 470 A.D.[8c] |
| Kildare[9a] | c. 487 A.D.[9b] | Co. Kildare | SS. Brigid, d. 525 A.D.[9c] and Conlaeth, d. 419 A.D. |
| Louth[10a] | c. 454 A.D.[10b] | Co. Louth | St. Mochta[10c] |
| Nendrum[11a] | c. 450 A.D.[11b] | Co. Down | St. Caelan or Mochaoi[11c] d. 497–9 |
| Rath Muighe[12a] | —[12b] | Co. Antrim | St. Patrick[12c] |
| Saul[13a] | —[13b] | Co. Down | St. Patrick[13c] |
| Slane[14a] | —[14b] | Co. Meath | St. Patrick[14c] |
| Seir[15a] | —[15b] | King’s Co. | St. Ciaran,* the Elder[15c] |
| Trim[16a] | —[16b] | Co. Meath | St. Patrick[16c] |
For a discussion of the chronology of SS. Declan, Ibar, Ailbe and Ciaran the Elder, see Power, Rev. Patrick, Lives of SS. Declan and Mocuda, pp. xix–xxii, Irish Texts Series.
[1a.] Conyngham, D. P., Irish Saints and Martyrs, p. 540. Conyngham relies mainly on Walter Harris’s ed. of Ware’s Monasticon Hiberniae and Lanigan’s Ecclesiastical History of Ireland. [1b.] Unknown. [1c.] St. Patrick’s death, see Conyngham, D. P., op. cit. p. 2; St. Mell’s op. cit. p. 117.
For the various dates assigned to St. Patrick’s death, see Healy, John. Life and Writings of St Patrick, pp. 635–7. Bury, J. B. op. cit. p. 206 places his death as early as 461 A.D., while the Annals of the Four Masters, I., pp. 154–6 give the traditional date as 493 A.D. Modern scholars are inclined to accept one of the earlier dates as the more probable.
[2a.] Conyngham, D. P., op. cit. p. 541. [2b.] Unknown. [2c.] Power P., op. cit. pp. xix–xxii.
[3a ]and [3b.] Healy, John, Ireland’s Saints and Scholars, p. 114 gives 455 A.D. as the date of foundation, the Four Masters give 457 A.D. I, p. 142. Bury, J. B., places the date of foundation as early as 444 A.D. op. cit. p. 154. [3c.] See Note 1c above.
[4a], [4b], and [4c]. Conyngham, D. P., op. cit. p. 182. See also Healy, John, for an account of the School of St. Enda. op. cit.