Deceased
Parish Of Birth
Bandon
Details Of Ordination
Carey’s Lane Chapel, Cork
21/9/1820
Appointments
Ballinhassig PP : 1824 – 16/2/1849
Ballinhassig Adm. – 1824
Enniskeane CC
Notes
Parish Priest of Ballinhassig in Black ’47 (The Great Hunger)
He built the Church of the Most Holy Heart of Mary (The Mountain Church), Goggins Hill, Ballinhassig (1821) and the Church of the Sacred heart at Ballyheeda, Ballinhassig (1823).
The Carey’s Lance Chapel(Place of Ordination) would have occupied a site on or near the present day Ss. Peter & St. Paul’s Church.
The last Mass at Carey’s Lane Chapel was celebrated on Sunday, December 5th. 1858. The present day Ss. Peter & Paul’s Church was opened on Friday, June 29th.1866 – Feast of Ss. Peter & Paul.
Date Of Death
16/2/1849
Life & Work
Letter to the Cork Examiner
Letter describing the plight of his parishioners in the midst of the Great Famine.
25/6/1847 , The Cork Examiner