Deceased
Parish Of Birth
Carrigaline
Colleges Attended
St. Mary’s College, Cork, Ireland
Details Of Ordination
St. Mary’s, Cork
1818
Appointments
Retired to St. Finbarr’s
Ballymartle PP : 1840 – 1843
Glanmire CC : 1838 – 1840
Desertserges CC – 1838
Kilmurry CC
Notes
Local tradition maintains that Fr. Jeffords had to leave Desertserges because the parishioners reported him to his bishop – Bishop Murphy, for doing something they didn?t approve of. They say he left and was heard of no more. That is only half-true. It is a fact that the chapel was barred against him on three consecutive Sundays because he spoke against the violent acts of the Whiteboy movement. The Bishop then arranged for him to exchange with Fr. Thomas Haynes, his curacy in Desertserges for that of Glanmire.
Date Of Death
1857