Rev. Adam Loftus, was the private chaplain to the viceroy, Thomas, Earl of Sussex, when he came with him to Ireland in 1556. Rev. Adam was advanced to the See of Armagh and was consecrated Archbishop of Armagh in 1562. He was one of the founders of Trinity College, Dublin and was its first provost. He resigned that post in 1594. In 1578 he was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, a position he held until his death in 1605. He was granted the lands of Rathfarnham in the late 16th century and built Rathfarnham Castle. This castle was one of a ring of fortresses defending Dublin from the Irish clans in the Wicklow mountains – Kavanaghs, O’Byrnes and O’Tooles.
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