The Dean of Kilmacduagh was the priest in charge of the Diocese's

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Kilmacduagh monastery Kilmacduagh Monastery is a ruined abbey near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It was the birthplace of the Diocese of Kilmacduagh. It was reportedly founded by Saint Colman, son of Duagh in the 7th century, on land given him by his c ...

." Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ: The Succession of the Prelates, Volume 4" Cotton, H pp202-205: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1851

Deans of Kilmacduagh

*1558–1572: John O'Tiernay *1591 Matthew Warde *1621–

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*1697–1719: Stephen Handcock (also

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) *1719–1730: Charles Northcott *1730–1747: John Richardson *1748–1753: James Stopford (afterwards

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, 1753) *1753–1771:

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, 1804) *1804–1806:

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, 1806) *1806–1823: William Forster *1823–1836: Richard Hood *1837–1838: John Thomas O'Neil *1839–1849:

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(afterwards

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, 1849) *1849–1874: Joseph Aldrich Bermingham *1874–1892: Christopher Henry Gould Butson

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Kilmacduagh Kilmacduagh () is a small village in south County Galway, near Gort, in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is the site of Kilmacduagh monastery, seat of the Diocese of that name. The diocese is now part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galway, Ki ...

Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe {{Anglican-stub