Robert Gough was an Irish

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

priest. Gough was educated at

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

. He was Precentor of Limerick Cathedral in 1615; and was Archdeacon of Ardfert from 1628 to 1641."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p451: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878

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17th-century Irish Anglican priests Archdeacons of Ardfert Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub