John Thomas O'Neil was an
Irish Anglican
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priest
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.
Educated at
Trinity College, Dublin
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, he was the
Chancellor
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of
Killaloe Cathedral
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Previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Killaloe, it is now one of five cathedrals in the Dio ...
before his appointment as
Dean
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of
Kilmacduagh
Kilmacduagh () is a small village in south County Galway, Ireland, near Gort. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name, in Kiltartan barony.
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in 1837.
["Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland", Cotton, H: Dublin: James Charles & Son, 1878] He resigned the following year.
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