Nicholas Conaty (1820–1886) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in

Kilsallagh Kilsallagh () is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Templeport and barony of Tullyhaw. Geography Kilsallagh is bounded on the north by Killycrin townland, on the west by ...

to John Conaty and his wife Honora Brady and educated at Kilmore Academy before completing his clerical studies in

Maynooth College St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth ( ga, Coláiste Naoimh Phádraig, Maigh Nuad), is the "National Seminary for Ireland" (a Roman Catholic college), and a pontifical university, located in the town of Maynooth, from Dublin, Ireland. ...

. Conaty was ordained a priest on 17 June 1848. He was on the staff of Cavan Diocesan Seminary from then until 1854. He was parish priest of Castlerahan from 1854 to 1863. Conaty was appointed co-adjutor Bishop of Kilmore in 1863, and Bishop of Kilmore in 1865 succeeding Dr James Browne. Before becoming a bishop he was a professor in Kilmore Diocesan Seminary, he also taught at All Hallows College Dublin, and served as parish priest in Knocktemple, Co. Cavan. He established the new diocesan seminary and school

St. Patrick's College, Cavan Saint Patrick's College ( ga, Coláiste Padraig) is a Roman Catholic all-male secondary school. Located in County Cavan, Ireland. It was founded in 1871 as a minor and major seminary for the Diocese of Kilmore. It was officially opened by the B ...

''The College Boys, Students of the Kilmore Academy and St Patrick’s College, Cavan 1839 - 2000'', by Raymond Dunne and Francis J. MacKiernan, published by Cumann Seanchais Bhreifne, Cavan(2008). and employed the renowned church architect William Hague on its building and other church buildings in the diocese. He brought the Poor Clares (enclosed order of nuns) to Cavan in the 1860s. He died on 17 January 1886 and was succeeded by Bishop Bernard Finegan, who had been the parish priest of Drumlane, Cavan.

Published works

*''The Catholic Church - proved to be the Church of Christ'' by Rev. N. Conaty, Published by James Duffy, 1852.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Conaty, Nicholas 1865 deaths Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Roman Catholic bishops of Kilmore 1820 births People from County Cavan