Deceased
Parish Of Birth
Unspecified
Details Of Ordination
Cork
1/10/1841
Appointments
Kilmurry PP : 1867 – 30/6/1893
Innishannon PP : 1860 – 1867
Goleen PP : 09/1855 – 1860
Kilmurry CC : 1848 – 09/1855
Dunmanway CC : 1844 – 1848
Chaplain, Bandon : 1841 – 1844
Notes
For an insight into the work of Canon Foley during his appointment as Parish Priest in Goleen and in Kilmurry, we would recommend:
(a) Famine in West Cork, The Mizen Peninsula, Land and People, 1800 – 1852, by Patrick Hickey,
(b) The Slow Sunrise, Land Reform-Labour-Home Rule in Mid Cork, 1865 -1881, by Michael Galvin.
Date Of Death
30/6/1893
Place Of Death
Crookstown, Co. Cork
Place Of Burial
St. Joseph’s Church Grounds, Cloughduv, Co. Cork
Obituary
The celebrant of the Solemn Requiem Mass at St. Joseph’s Church, Cloughduv was, Fr. Cornelius O’Driscoll, C.C., Kilmurry; deacon was, Fr. Daniel McNamara, Cathedral; sub-deacon was, Fr. Daniel O’Shea, St. Marie’s of the Isle.