Deceased
Parish Of Birth
Cathedral
Colleges Attended
Irish College, Paris France
St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth Co Kildare, Ireland
Details Of Ordination
St. Patrick’s College Chapel, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
20/6/1915
Appointments
Ovens PP : 03/1956 – 16/2/1980
Cathedral Adm : 27/10/1949 – 03/1956
Cathedral/Clogheen CC : 24/7/1921 – 27/10/1949
Chaplain, Good Shepherd Convent : 24/7/1921 – 27/10/1949
Ministry Abroad/ Portsmouth, England : 1915 – 1921
Notes
Appointed Canon of the Cathedral Chapter in 1949.
During his ministry in Portsmouth he acted as Chaplain to a prison on the Isle of White where many Irish Nationalists sympathisers were then incarcerated, including James Joseph Walsh, generally referred to as J.J. Walsh, later to become Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of the Irish Free State (1923-1927).
Date Of Death
16/2/1980
Place Of Death
Bon Secours Hospital, Cork
Place Of Burial
St. John the Baptist Church Grounds, Ovens, Co. Cork
Obituary
His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Lucey, Bishop of Cork & Ross, presided at the Concelebrated Requiem Mass at which the chief concelebrant was, Right Rev. Dean Bastible, P.P., V.G., St. Patricks.