Dominic de Burgo

Dominic de Burgo, Bishop of Elphin, 1629-1704.

De Burgo, or Burke, was a native of Craughwell, County Galway, listed by Hugh Fenning as Of the family of Cahirkinvonivy. He was professed at Athenry in 1648 and studied for six years in Segovia, later living in Pesaro, Treviso and Milan. He was listed as Definitor for Ireland at the General Chapter at Rome in 1670.

Consecrated bishop of Elpin at Ghent in 1671, he was disliked by Oliver Plunkett, who stated he was "extravagant, imprudent in word and deed." He was exiled in 1691, living in poverty with the Franciscans of St. Anthony's, Louvain, where he died on 1 january 1704.

References

• History of Galway, James Hardiman, 1820
• Irish Dominicans at Lisbon before 1700: a Biographical Register, Hugh Fenning, in Collectanea Hibernica, pp. 27–65 volume 42, 2000
• Burke, Dominic, Tomas S.R. O Floinn, in Dictionary of Irish Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2002, pp. 23–24. Cambridge, 2010.