Raphael Walsh was an

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priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

in the second half of the 18th Century and the first decade of the 19th. Wight was born in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

and educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. He was

Dean of Dromore The Dean of Dromore has responsibility for Dromore Cathedral in the Diocese of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland. Deans of Dromore *1693/4 Isaac Plume *1609 William Todd *1621 Thomas Wilson *1622 John Wall *1623 Robert Dawson *1628/9 Wi ...

from 1790 until his death in 1808; and

Archdeacon of Limerick The Archdeacon of Limerick was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick, Diocese of Limerick (and later in the Church of Ireland) from the thirteenth century to the early twentieth.Crockford's Clerical Directo ...

from 1790 until his resignation in 1803. His nephew was the

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landowner and M.P.

John Allen Johnson-Walsh Sir John Allen Johnson-Walsh, 1st Baronet (bapt. 19 September 1744 – 16 December 1831) was an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament.George Edward Cokayne''The Complete Baronetage'' vol. 5, p. 383(Exeter 1906) He was born John Allen Johns ...

George Edward Cokayne George Edward Cokayne, (29 April 1825 – 6 August 1911), was an English genealogist and long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London, who eventually rose to the rank of Clarenceux King of Arms. He wrote such authoritative and standar ...

''The Complete Baronetage'' vol. 5, p. 383
(Exeter 1906)

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