Background
He was descended from John Archdale, of Abbotts Hall, Darsham, in Suffolk, who settled at Castle Archdale, company He was born in Dublin 22 April 1723.
He was descended from John Archdale, of Abbotts Hall, Darsham, in Suffolk, who settled at Castle Archdale, company He was born in Dublin 22 April 1723.
Fermanagh as an Undertaker in the Plantation of Ulster. When Pococke became bishop of Ossory, he appointed Archdall his domestic chaplain, bestowed on him the living of Attanagh (partly in Queen"s County and partly in co Kilkenny), and the prebend of Cloneamery in the cathedral church of Ossory (1762), which he afterwards exchanged (1764) for the prebend of Mayne in the same cathedral.
Archdall was also chaplain to Francis Pierpoint, Lord Conyngham, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
