page_title: Abbot of Fearn
section_title: List of abbots
hierarchical_section_title: Abbot of Fearn / List of abbots
caption_attribution_description: Uploader's own picture. Tomb of Fionnlagh II, abbot of Fearn. Picture taken at en:Fearn Abbey in summer 2006.
context_page_description: The Abbot of Fearn was the head of the Premonstratensian monastic community of Fearn Abbey, Easter Ross, Scotland. The Abbey was founded by canons from Whithorn Priory in Galloway, with the patronage of Fearchar mac an t-Sagairt, mormaer/earl of Ross. The foundation took place in the 1220s, according to the two distinct foundation dates given in the sources, either in 1221 or in 1227. Until about 1238, the Abbey was located at Fearn, near Edderton, but it was moved to the Tarbat parish in that year and known thereafter as "nova Furnia". Despite the fact that the head of Whithorn Priory was a prior and Fearn an abbot, Fearn seems to have remained subordinate to Whithorn until at least the end of the 14th century, and even in 1440 Abbot Fionnlagh II was confirmed by the prior of Whithorn.The reason for this is that Whithorn was a cathedral priory; the nominal head of its community was the bishop, but its actual head was the prior, as was the common use in England at places like Durham and Carlisle, but this was not usual in Scotland. In these circumstances the cathedral prior had the same rights as an ordinary abbot.
context_section_description: Maol Choluim (I) of Whithorn, 1220s or 1230s
  Maol Choluim (II) of Nigg, x 1251
  Macbeathad ("Machabeus") "Makhersin", 1251 x 1274
  Colin, 1255 x 1271
  Martein (Martin), 1299x1311
  John, 1299x1321
  Mark Ross, 1321 -1338
  Domhnall ("Donaldus") Pupill, 1345x1371 -1373
  Adam Monilaw, 1380 -1407
  Thomas Kiethirnathie, 1407x
  Fionnlagh (I) (or Finlay), 1436
  Fionnlagh (II) (Finlay McFaed), 1439-1483 x 1486
  Thomas MacCulloch, 1486-1490
  Nicholas Slugy, fl. 1491
caption: Tomb of abbot Fionnlagh II.
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