Dr Finn, of Killaloe, in county Clare, was as well known in those parts the confines, that is, of the counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, and Galway as was the bishop himself who lived in the same town, and was as much respected. Many said that the doctor was the richer man of the two, and the practice of his profession was extended over almost as wide a district. Indeed the bishop whom he was privileged to attend, although a Roman Catholic, always spoke of their dioceses being conterminate.