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LIST OF PARISH CLERGY FROM C. 1376-20021
Reliable data is not available to us to compile a full and comphrensive list of clergy who served in the entities of the present Catholic parish of Templeorum, prior to 1376 and indeed from 1376 to latter part of the 18th century. Notwithstanding, hereunder is a list of clergy comprising parish priests and curates who served from 1376 to 2002.
Pre. 1376: Walsh, Raymond, Vicar of Fiddown.
1432: Gunden David, was listed as Vicar of Fiddown in this year.
Pre. 1462:O Meachyr, Cornelius was listed as Vicra of Fiddown in this year.
1462: O’Kennedy, Cornelius was listed as Vicar of Fiddown.
Pre. 1479: Brenach, William was rector and Vicar of Owning in Templeorum parish in 1492. Prior to 1489 he was vicar in Pollrone, Mooncoin. In 1489 he was Prior of St. Columba, Inistiogue. Rector of Ballytarsna, Mooncoin from 1489 to 1492.
1592-1609: Rev. Hugh Murphy. He was in charge of the parish in these years.According to State records he was dead by 6th January 1609.
1609: Rev. Thomas Daton. Canon Carrigan presumes that he was parish priest at this time. Going by his name, he must be related to the Anglo-Norman family of Daton or Dalton.
1669-1685(?): Rev. John Grant. Vicarius de Fiddown. In 1669 Fr. Grant was one of these who signed their names to a letter sent by the Ossory priest to the Sacred Congregation in Rome. In 1682 he was listed as parish priest of Templeorum and Mooncoin. His will was drawn up at Clonmore on 28th April 1682, though he seemed to have been still alive in 1685. After his death, according to Carrigan, the parishes of Templeorum and Mooncoin were separated.
1704-1712(?): Rev. Denis Conlean. Aged 333 in 1704, he was living at Belline. His parish was Fidown, Tybroughney, Owning and Whitechurch. He was ordained in 1695 by the Bishop of Cork in Cork. Canon Carrigan gives his name as Denis Quinlan. He was still alive on 9th February 1712.
? - 1748: Rev. James Holohan. He died c. 1747 or 1748 and is buried in the chancel in Owning old church or Gothic church. He was born in Kilkenny city.
1748 - 1778: Rev. Matthias Lanigan. He was a native of Kilmanagh parish and likely to have been an uncle of Dr. Lanigan Bishop of Ossory. He was appointed parish priest of Templeorum at the end of 1748. On the 15th March 1776 the local Church of Ireland or Protestant curate, Rev. William Watts, reported to the Irish House of Lords that the only Popish priest in the Union of Fiddown was the parish priest, Fr. Matthias Lanigan. The report estimated that there were 204 Popish or Roman Catholic families and 85 Protestant families in the Union. Fr. Lanigan died either at ‘Carrick,’ county Kilkenny or at Owning on 4th January 1778 aged 60. He was buried in Owning churchyard where his tombstone reads: “Here lies the body of Reverend Father Matthias Lanigan, that was Parish Priest of Owning, Whitechurch, and Templeorum, and rector of Moine 29 years and departed this life on the 4th day of January Anno Domini 1778 in the 60th year of his age. Reqiscat in pace. Amen.” By his will he left property in Shortalls, Graig, Kilmanagh to his brother Nicholas Lanigan. He also left £5 to his brother Stephen and £1 to his sister Mary then living in Callan. While he was in Owning he is said to have lived in a house close to the old church.
1778 - 1781: Rev. Thomas Lalor. He had been appointed as parish priest of Urlingford on 1st March 1771, but resigned in 1774. In 1775 was appointed parish priest of Kilmacow and was translated to Templeorum on 7th January 1778. He died on 7th September 1781 and is buried in St. Mary’s churchyard Kilkenny. There is no monument to his name.
1781 - 1811: Rev. James Lalor. He was born c. 1741 in either Freshford or Ballyraggett and was ordained in June 1767 at Garrychreen near to Kilkenny. He served as curate as Ballyraggett in 1780 to 26th February 1781. He was appointed parish priest of Castlecomer on 26th February 1781. On 5th October 1781 he was appointed parish priest of Templeorum. Fr. Lalor lived at first in owning and later moved to Ballypatrick House. His curate Fr. William Byrne is said to have lived with him. According to Carrigan he was given to habits of intemperance, and is said to have become childish or senile in his later years. In 1802 he resigned as as parish priest of the parish, but continued to receive 30 guineas a year as support from parish funds to live at Ballypatrick House. He died there on 3rd June 1811 aged about 60. He is buried in Templeorum churchyard, where there is an altar tomb to his name. He is said to have been a Gaelic poet, but onlyy one poem of his survives. According to John O’Donovan he compiled a Gaelic Grammar. Carrigan describes him as being profoundly vested in the Irish language.
1802 - 1811: Rev. Laurance Morrissey. A temporary administrator.
1811 - 1815: Rev. James Morrisssey. A self styled controversial priest on loan from the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, who was firstly an administrator.
1815 - 1817: Various administrators: Fr. Edmund Cody from 23rd July 1815 to 15th June 1817. Fr. Patrick Walsh from 15th June 1817 to 10th August 1817.
1817 - 1838: Fr. Patrick Magrath. He was born in Upper Patrick Street, Kilkenny in 1766 and educated in the Irish College, Paris. He was ordained about 1790 in Kilkenny. He served as Professor under Rev. Ricgard Mansfield in the Old Academy, Kilkenny, between 1790 and 1793. He was president there from 1793 to 1816. When the academy closed he was appointed parish priest of Ballyragget in 1816 until August 1817. He was a strong supporter of the veto and was badly received by parishioners. At his own request he was transferred to Templeorum on 10th August 1817. Ten years later he was given a dinne rin Piltown on 9th September 1827 to honour him before he left for France. He had been appointed as President to the Irish Colleg in Paris by the Irish Bishops, however, he returned to Piltown the following year as a result of a dispute in the College. He was appointed Chancellor of teh Diocese, and on 17th March 1838 he was transferred to Inistioge as parish priest where he died on 22nd January 1840, aged 75. While in Templeroum he lived in the Sandpits in a house later occupied by an agent of the Earl of Bessborough. When the Haydens left Ballypatrick House, Fr. Magrath moved there.
1838 - 1850: Rev. Pierce Marum. He was born in Newpark, in the parish of St. Canice’s Kilkenny on 13th December 1788, the son of Richard Marum and Anne Fennelly. The Bishop of Ossory, Rev. Kieran Marum, 1815 -27, was his uncle and another uncle of his was married to a sister of Rev. Nicholas Carroll, a curate in the parish of Templeorum. He studied in the old Academy in Kilkenny and in Salamanca in Spain. At the beginning of the Peninsular War, he fled back to Ireland. On 2nd September 1809 he entered Maynooth to study Logic, and was ordained in 1813. He served as curate in Aghaboe, March 1814-June 1817, Templeorum 31st June to August 1817, Mooncoin August 1817 to October 1826, Slieverue, October 1826 to July 1827 and Ballygagget, July 1827 to May 1832. He was appointed parish priest of Conahy in May 1832, and transferred to Templeorum on 17th March 1838. On the 28th May 1850, he died, aged 60, and is buried in Templeorum church, where there is a memorial in marble to his name. His probable residence was Ballypatrick House.
1850 - 1864: Rev. Walter McDonald. He was born at Nicholastown, Mooncoin on 29th April 1796. Hi parents were Thomas McDonald and Hanora Grant. He began Logic in Birchfield, Kilkenny in September 1821 following a time studyong Classics at Burrell’s Hall. Ordained in December 1826, he served at first in the Diocese of Killaloe. In Ossory he was curate in Ballyhale, April 1831 to August 1834, Templeorum, August 1834 to September 1835, Gowran, 1835 to 1840 and Rosbercon, 1840 to summer 1848. In the summer of 1848 he was appointed as parish priest of Aghavillar and from there transferred to Templeorum on 26th July 1850. He died on Monday 24th October 1864 of bronchitis aged 68 at Ballypatrick House. He is buried in Templeorum churchyard. Dean McDonald who was President of St Kieran’s College was his nephew, and ancestor to Rev. Walter McDonald who wrote A History of Mooncoin and Reminiscences of a Maynooth Professor.
1864 - 1885: Rev. James Maher: He was born in Lower Conahy the son of Thomas Maher and Catherine Downey. He studied Classics at Burrell’s Hall between 1829 and 1834. On 12th September 1834 he entered Maynooth and was ordained in 1839. He served as curate in Slieverue, 1840 to 1844, St. Canice’s, 1844 to November 1864. On the 12th November 1864 he was appointed parish priest of Templeorum. After a long illness during which the parish was in the hands of an Administrators, he died on 13th April 1885 aged 70 and is buried in Templeorum.
1883 - 1885: Administrator. During the final year of Rev. James Maher’s illness, Fr. James Shortall then curate in Piltown was appointed administrator.
1885 - 1916: Rev. John Purcell: He was born in Gaulstown, Kilmacow on 20th August 1839. He had a brother a priest, also. He read Classics at St. Kieran’s and was sent to Irish College in Rome in 1859 until 1865, to study Philosphy and Theology. He was ordained on 15th April 1865. He was curate in St. Canice’s, 5th August 1865 to 13th April 1870, St. John’s, 13th April 1870 to 26th May 1873. He was appointed administrator of the parish of St. Kieran on 31st May 1873 and from there was appointed parish priest of Templeorum on 13th June 1885. ``````````he died on 15th August 1916 aged 77 following a long illness. He built the new church in Piltown, opened in September 1899, on land which was leased from the Earl of Bessborough for 999 years at a rental of 1s a year.
1912 - 1916: Administrator, Rev. Charles Cavanagh. He served the parish from 18th February 1912 to 29th September 1916.
1916 - 1935: Rev. Thomas Phelan. He was born at Rushall, Castletown. He was educated at Mountrath and Ballyfin by the Patrician Brothers, and at St. Kieran’s College from 1874 to 1882. He was ordained on 31st July 1882. He served as professor in St. Kieran’s from 31st August 1882 to 8th May 1883. He was curate in Clogh, 8th May 1883 to June 1885, St. Mary’s, from mid-June to 19th September 1885, Castlecomer, 19th September 1885 to 7th August 1886 but it is not certain if he served here, Ballyragget, 19th September 1885 to 7th August 1886, Aghaboe, 7th August 1886 to 15th may 1892. Administrator of St. Kieran’s parish 15th May 1892 to 3rd October 1904. He was appointed parish priest of Glenmoreon 3rd October 1904 to 2nd October 1916, then transferred to Templeorum on the latter date. He was appointed Canon on 23rd April 1924 and Archdeacon in February 1930, according to official records; local records differ: made Canon on 27th May 1925 and Archdeacon on 25th April 1931. He died on 4th February 1935 aged 76 and is buried in the new cemetery in Piltown.
1935 - 1942: Rev. Martin Kealy. He was born in Lisdowney and educated at St. Kieran’s College. He was ordained in May 1902. He served on the mission in Hexham and Newcastle for eight years. He served as curate in Camross, 4th December 1910 to 28th August 1911. He was a professor at St. Kieran’s College from 28th April 1911 to 1926, when he was appointed administrator to St. Jonh’ until 13th June 1927. He was appointed parish priest of Templeorum on 7th March 1935. He died on the 25th April 1942 aged 64 and is buried in the new cemetery Piltown.
1942 - 1963: Rev. Philip Comerford. He was born in Urlingford and educated at St. Kieran’s. He was ordained on 4th March 1900. He served as curate in Conahy, 8th March 1900 to 11th December 1900, Chaplain to Castletown Christian Brothers, 11th December 1900 to 24th August 1902, he served as curate in Castletown, 24th August 1902 to 26th February 1906, Castlecomer, 26th february 1906 to 30th November 1908, Kilmacow, 30th November 1908 to 17th August 1919, Ballyragget, 17th August 1919 to 24th September 1928. He was appointed parish priest of Clara on 24th September 1928, then transferred to Templeorum on 30th May 1945. He was promoted Canon on 6th November 1939 and Rachdeacon in 1945. He took ill in February/March 1963 and died on 15th February 1964 aged 91. He is buried in the new cemetery Piltown.
1964 - 1975: Rev. Francis Teehan. He was born at Tullaroan and was educated in Maynooth. He was ordained on 21st June 1931. He served on the mission in Liverpool, 1931 to 1933, curate to Rathdowney, 10th April 1933 to 1st February 1937, Borris-in-Ossory 1st February 1937 to 21st August 1948, Durrow, 28th November 1955 to 11th August 1960. He was appointed administrator Seir Kieran from 11th August 1960 to 4th March 1964. On the latter date he was appointed parish priest of Templeroum. He was promoted Canon on 11th August 1960. He died on 27th July 1975 and is buried in the new cemetery Piltown.
1975 - 1978: Rev. Cornelius Sherin. He was born in High Street Kilkent on 20th May 1910. He entered St. Kieran’s on 1st September 1922, and was educated at Maynooth. He was ordained on 17th June 1934. He served at St. Kieran’s from September 1934 to 28th July1964, where he was Director of Sacred Music. He was appointed administrator of St. ary’s on 28th July 1964 and served until July 1967. He was then appointed as parish priest of Clara, and then transferred to Templeroum on 23rd August 1975 and served until 27th May 1978 when he retired dued to ill-health. He died on 13th October 1995.
1978 - 1994: Rev. John Woods. He was born in Thomastown on 20th October 1918. He was educated at St. Kieran’s College, which he entered on 1st September 1931. He was ordained on 7th June 1942. On loan to the Archdiocese of St. Andrewa and Edinbugh, Scotand, 1942 to 1949. He served as curate in Rathdowney from 1st October 1949 to 28th october 1968. Spiritual Director De La Salle Brothers College, Castletown, from 28th October 1968 to 19th March 1973. He was curate at muckalee from 19th March 1973 to 10th June 1978. He was appointed parish priest of Templeorum on 10th June 1978 until he retired on 14th July 1994. He died on 6th May 1998 and is buried in the new cemetery Piltown.
1994 to date: Rev. Paschal Moore. He is son of Patrick Moore, Portlaoise and Elizabeth Cassin, Kilkenny. He was born in Kilkenny on 21st April 1946 and educated at CBS Kilkenny and Catholic University School, Lesson Street, Dublin. He attedned St. Kieran’s Seminary from 1964 to 1970. He was ordained on 7th June 1970. He served as curate in Ferrybank from 1st August 1970 to 18th August 1982 and Chaplain to Belmont Hospital and Slieverue V.S. in the same period; he was curate in Rosbercon from 18th Auggust 1982 to 15th August 1992. He was curate in Owning from 15th August 1992 to 14th July 1994 when he was appointed parish priest of the parish of Templeorum. He lived in a rented house on the Tower Road and on the High Road, Piltown until in April 1996, the P.P. Emeritus Canon John Woods, retired completely. He lived in the curate’s house in Owning until summer 2000, when he moved into the new bungalow in Piltown.
CURATES.
The dates given for periods of service are not cast in stone, as absolute accuracy is not possible. It seems, with the appointment in 1817 of Fr. Magrath as parish priest, the parish acquired two curates. Previously, it appears from the records, insofar as they are complete and accurate, that some curates in that earlier period may have served in either Owning or Piltown as the need arose. In c. 1885 the then parish priest, Fr. John Purcell moved to the newlly built parish priest’s house in Ardclone Piltown. The two storey Georgian type residence built on land given to the parish by the Earl of Bessborough for a small fee. This house was sold in the late 1990s and the new parish priest’s bungalow, adjacent to it, was built and the parish priest moved in there in the summer of 2000.
List of Curates For Owning.
Beginning of 18th Century: Rev. Forrest. A priest or friar, who was on the mission here c. the beginning of the 18th century. He lived at Baungorriv and had a farm of 20 acres. The house in which he lived stood in Michael Coleman’s haggard. His Christian name may have been Bartholomew. In Paterick O’Neill’s manuscript collection is a poem in Irish composed by Arthur Parolawn Forrest i.e. Fr. Bartholomew Forrest.
1782 - 1783? Rev. John Gogarty. A Dominican friar who was on the mission in Templeorum and perhaps Owning as well and lived in Ballypatrick House in 1782. On September 172 he was registered in Kilkenny as John Gogarty of Ballypatrick in county Kilkenny. A regular priest, aged about 29. He was ordained deacon on 20th September 1777 by Dr. John Henry, Archbishop of Mucklin and was ordained a priest on the 14th day of March 1778 by the said Archbishop. Fr. Gogarty was a Connaught man. He continued on the Ossory mission until c. 1798 but ion what part of did he settle we do not know
September 1793 - 11th June 1801: Rev. William Byrne. During his curacy the 1798 church in Owning was built, and he lived in Fogarty’s two storey farmhouse in Fanningstown, a quarter of a mile from the village of Owning.
June 1801 - December 1802: Rev. Laurance Morrissey. An administrator.
December 1802 - 17th October 1805: Rev. Tighe (Guider?). A Dominican friar who according to the list at the back of an 1800-1840 Parish Register was curate from January 1806 to December 1806 and occasionally assisted the priests of the parish until c. 1826. He lived at Rathkieran where he had ahouse and a couple of acres. In the list of curates for Owning on page 38 of Owning Church 1798-1998, by Michael O’Donnell, the dates are given as above in bold and no more is said of him.
1806-1808 Rev. N. Carroll.
1808-1810 Rev. W. Grant.
12th September 1810 - July 1811: Rev. James Hennebry. He was sent o the parish in August 1810 and left until July 1811, and he came a second time in September 1814. He can hardly be called a regular curate as the principla and sole object for which e was sent was to continue and complete the building of Templeorum chapel, which had run into considerable difficulty, without any priest to guide the parishioners. Fr. Hennebry brought the work to a successful conclusion. In his early years, he himself, was a carpenter. He worked on the roof of Templeorum chapel with hos own hands. He was born in Luffany, Mooncoin and died as parish priest of Callan in 1834.
1810-1812 Rev. Richard Butler.
5th October 1811 - 24th March 1819: Rev. Richard Mansfield. He died 26th October 1823 in his 44th year and is buried in Callan, his native place.
1817-1818 Rev. P. Walsh.
1819-1821 Rev. Edward Lynch.
1821-1821 Rev. Joseph Butler.
1829- Rev. Thomas Brennan
- Rev. Nicholas Dalton.
29th March 1819 - 23rd March 1831: Rev. Patrick Farrell. He was from Barronswood, Mooncoin. He began Philosophy in Maudlin Street Seminary Kilkenny, in September 1811 and Theology in the same September 1812 and finished his course in irchfield. After his ordination he was curate at St. Jonh’s from Agust 1816 to November 1818 and St. Mary’s from November 1818 to March 29th 1819. His remains and monument are in Templeorum churchyard.
1832-1838 Rev. Edward Feehan Family from Tybroughney. Were brewers in Carrick-beg as well as landowners in Tybroughney. His family donated a window to the present Church of Assumption Piltown.
1832-1834 Rev. William Walsh.
1844 – Rev. Nolan.
May 1831 to 10th October 1832: Rev. William Hart. He was later parish priest of Freshford.
10th October 1832 - 7th August 1834: Rev. William Walsh. He was later parish priest of Mooncoin.
7th August 1834 - September 1835: Rev. Walter McDonald. Afterwards parish priest of Templeorum, see list of parish priests.
27th November 1835 - 28th February 1838: Rev. James Tobin. Later parish priest of Mullinavat. At back of 1800-1840 parish register, his first name is given as William.
6th March 1838 - 28th February 1843: Rev. William Hart.
12th March 1843 - 12th June 1845: Rev. James F. Ryan. Later parish priest of Clara. He lived at Owning.
1844-1847 Rev. Patrick Dunne.
1847-1851 Rev. Joseph Moore.
1851-1854 Rev. Thomas Walsh.
1854-1857 Rev. William Martin.
1856-1861 Rev. Philip Moore.
1861-1868 Rev. John Fitzpatrick.
13th June 1845 - 1856: Rev. Patrick Ryan. Accounted a saint, he lived in a house in Springfield, Ballyhennebry, Owning.
2nd August 1857 - 24th March 1863: Rev. Matthew Brennan. Later parish priest of Tullaroan.
27th February 1863 - 15th August 1868: Rev. Richard Hogan. Later parish priest of Conahy.
27th August 1868 - 28th April 1874: Rev. Thomas Power. He died in the U.S.A.
26th April 1874 - 9th July 1876: Rev. Peter Doyle. He was on loan from Diocese of Ferns.
9th July 1876 - 25th March 1877: Rev. Peter Comerford.
11th March 1877 - 9th August 1881: Rev. James Doyle.
9th August 1881 - March 1882: Rev. Michael Cody. Authorised curate.
March 1882 - 15th January 1884: Rev. Joseph Fennelly. He died in Templeorum in 1884.
21st January 1884 - 10th April 1886: Rev. John Cahill.
3/7th February 1887 - 11th May 1895: Rev. William Cahill. He became curate of Templeorum in 1895 and died as curate here.
11th May 1895 - 5th June 1899: Rev. Michael McGrath. In 1899 he was transferred to Castlecomer.
June 1899 - 24th April 1911: Rev. Patrick Keoghan.
29th April 1911 - 16th August 1919: Rev. Charles Cavanagh.
18th August 1919 - 12th June 1935: Rev. James Comerford. Later parish priest of Mullinavat. At back of parish register of 100-1840 1925 is given as the date of his departure from Owning. This is probably innaccuarate.
15th July 1835 - June 1942: Rev. Michael Guilfoyle.
June 1942 - 16th May 1953: Rev. James Meany.
May 1953 - 21st April 1959: Rev. Philip Hally.
May 1959 - 4th April 1964: Rev. Ignatius Phelan.
4th April 1964 - 28th December 1973: Rev. Michael Brennan.
28th December 1973 - 10th June 1978: Rev. John Lalor.
10th June 1978 - 2nd January 1985: Rev. Peter Hoyne.
2nd January 1985 - 15th August 1992: Rev. Patrick Dalton. He was made parish priest of Gowran in 1992.
15th August 1992 - 14th July 1994: Rev. Pachal Moore. Transferred from Rosbercon. He was the last curate of Owning as an entity, ending a line that went back to c.before 1793. Retired parish priest FR. John Woods ministered in Owning from 1994 to his final retirement in April 1996.
Curates who served Piltown.
Piltown is a relatively modern parish entity within the triple entity that is the modern Catholic parish of Templeorum. Fiddown and Owning are the more established with their civil parish roots in the 12th century. Piltown and Fiddown villages and their hinterlands, contain the greater porportion of the population of the entire parish. Owning and its hinterland is next and Templeorum and its hinterland having the lowest density of population of the triple entity. The present day village sof Piltownand Fiddown are Bessborough Estate villages dating from late 18th to early 19th century. In 1804 for instance, it is likely that neither building had commenced and certainly they were not completed. The landscape utterly changed and the change is ongoing.
1804 - 1805: Rev. John Guider.
3rd December 1806 - 28th March 1808: Rev. Nicholas Carroll. Later parish priest of Mooncoin.
3rd April 1808 - 28th April 1810: Rev. William Grant. He is buried in Glenmore.
9th May 1810 - March 1812: Rev. Richard Butler. Later parish priest of Lisdowneey.
23rd July 1815 - 15th June 1817: Rev. Edmund Cody.
1st June - 10th August 1817: Rev. Pierce Marum.
10th August 1817 - 6th November 1819: Rev. Patrick Walsh. He came as an aministrator from Mooncoin and he was appointed parish priest of Urlingford in 1819.
6th November 1819 - 13th January 1821: Rev. Edward Lynch. He died as curate of Comer and is buried in Coolagh.
13th January 1821 - July 1829: Rev. Joseph Butler. Later parish priest of Castlecomer.
3rd August 181829 - 2nd February 1831: Rev. Thomas Brennan.
August 1831 - June 1837 and for a time 11th October 1837: Rev. Edward Feehan. He died in c. 1838. His family hailed from Tybroughney and there is a window in the 1899 Ctaholic church in Piltown to the family. They had cornmill in Carrick-beg, Carrick-on-Suir.
27th June 1836 - 1st April 1840: Rev. Edward Rice. He may have died on April 23rd 1840 aged 27.
9th May 1840 - 3rd January 1844: Rev. Michael Nolan. He died as curate in Callan.
12th January 1844 - 25th June 1847: Rev. Patrick Dunne. He was made parish priest of Danesfort in 1847.
18th December 1847 - 15th November 1851: Rev. Joseph Moore. He was later parish priest in Castletown.
16th November 1851 - 27th September 1854: Rev. Thomas Walsh. Later parish priest of Ballyragget.
5th October 1854 - 7th August 1856: Rev. William Martin.
28th August 1856 - 31st May 1861: Rev. Philip Moore.
19th June 1861 - 13th May 1878: Rev. John Fitzpatrick.
22nd May - 14th June 1878: Rev. Patrick Walsh.
1st July 1878 - 1883: Rev. James Shortall. He seems to have been the last curate of Piltown as such, to live in Piltown, since 1887 the parish priest Fr. John Purcell moved into the new parish priest’s house in Piltown. Fr. Shortall spent the latter part of his curacy as administrator as the P.P. was sick.
7th April 1912 to 29th August 1916: Rev. Thomas Brophy. He served during the parish priest’s illness, until Canon John Purcell died in 1916.
Templeorum Curates.
Templeorum though containing the parish church since 1720, lost its parish priest residence, when Canon John Purcell moved into the new parish priest’s house in Ardclone, Piltown in c. 1887. Ballypatrick House then became the residece of the curate who served the Templeorum entity of the Catholic parish of Templeorum until 1923 when Fr. Clohesssey moved into the vacated R.I.C. barracks in the village of Templeorum and in 1980 the then curate, Fr. Maher moved into the newly built curate’s bungalow in the village, at the north west end of the graveyard, opposite the forge of Flavin’s. Even when the parish priest lived in Ballypatrick House and there and with a resident curate in Owning village, in the early and middle to later middle 19th century, Templeorum did have a curate, who either lived with the parish priest at Ballypatrick or who lived in the accomodation over the sacristy in the present 1810-14 church in Templeorum. He most likely lived in the accomodation over the sacristy, as older people remember their parents speaking of the curate and his housekeeper living there. It was where the infamous Fr. Morrissey lived while administrator, during the illness of parish priest Fr. Lalor. When Balllypatrick House was vacated by Canon John Purcell, we presume that the Templeorum curate then moved from the scaristy accomodation to Ballypatrick. We begin our list in 1874 as there has been overlap between parish priests and curates from the 14th century towards the middle of the 19th century, as to whom served in Templeorum or Owning and Piltown during that time. In 1874 matters have settled into the pattern that was to remain unchanged until 1996, due to the growing shortage of vocations to the priests spanning over three decades. The late 1960s the trend towards decline in vocations began it onward rush downwards.
30th October 1874 - 24th May 1875: Rev. Patrick O’Connor.
8th June 1875 - 5th May 1876: Rev. James F. Dalton.
4th June /1st August 1876: Rev. Thomas Dowley.
4th August 1876 - 28th February 1887: Rev. Edward Murphy.
18th June 1887 - 12th Decmber 1889: Rev. James Brennan.
16th December 1889 - 11th May 1895: Rev. Edward Brennan.
22nd July 1893 - 11th May 1895: Rev. William Carrigan.
11th May 1895 - 28th November 1908: Rev. William Cahill.
15th December 1908 - 1st February 1915: Rev. Andrew O’Keefee.
1st February 1909 - 1st February 1915: Rev. Columba Kennedy.
1st February 1909 - 1st February 1915: Rev. John Loughry.
19th July 1915 - 29th September 1930: Rev. John Clohesy.
29th September 1930 - 20th September 1937: Rev. Patrick Delany.
20th September 1937 - October 1943: Rev. Nicholas Carrigan.
October 1943 - 24th January 1965: Rev. Philip Madigan.
4th March 1963 - April 1964: Rev. Richard Phelan. Substituted for Fr. Madigan who acted as Administrator during the illness of CanonComerford.
23rd March 1965 - 28th December 1973: Rev. James Carroll.
28th December 1973 - 18th July 1982: Rev. Francis Maher.
10th July 1982 - 13th August 1992: Rev. James Dollard
14th August 1992 - 9th March 1996: Rev. Sean Dunne, Columbian Father. Retired due to ill health in March 1996 and died in January 1997.
28th September 1996 - May 1998: Rev. Daniel Delany.
July 1998 - July 2001: Rev. Thomas Corcoran.
July 2001 - present: Rev. John Condon.
Reference:
Information on parish clergy in Register of Baptisms Parish of Templeorum, volume 3 1846-1854, written in by Canon Willam Carrigan between 1893-1895.
Also from a list in Owning Church 1798-1998, (published July 1998) by Michael O’Donnell, Owning.
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