The Dean of Killaloe is based at the Cathedral Church of St Flannan in Killaloe in the united diocese of Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert within the Church of Ireland. The Dean of Killaloe is also Dean of St Brendans, Clonfert, Dean of Kilfenora, and both Dean and Provost of Kilmacduagh. Since 2020 the incumbent is Roderick Lindsay Smyth.

Deans of Killaloe

*1602–1624 Hugh O'Hogan *1624–>1627 Richard Hacket *1628 Alexander Spicer *1637–1643 John Parker *1643–1649 John Parker (son of above, deprived 1649 but later appointed

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, 1660) *''Interregnum'' *1661 Jasper Pheasant *1692–1699 Jerome Ryves (afterwards

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, 1699) *1699–1727 James Abbadie (also known as Jakob Abbadie, writer) *1727–1749 Giles Eyre *1750–1761 Hon Charles Talbot Blayney, 8th Baron Blayney *1761–1768 William Henry *1768–1772 Hon Joseph Deane Bourke (afterwards Dean of Dromore, 1772 and later Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin) *1772–1780 William Cecil Pery (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1780) *1780–1781 Samuel Rastall *1781–1787 Hon Thomas Stopford (afterwards Dean of Ferns, 1787) *1787–1790 John Murray *1790–1808 Peter Carleton *1808–1828 John Bayly (afterwards Dean of Lismore, 1828) *1828–1830 Allen Morgan *1830–1871 John Head *1871–1880 James Hastings Allen *1880–1886 Joseph Frederick Robbins *1886–1917 Robert Humphries *1917–? Henry John Gillespie *1936–1943 Robert McNeil Boyd (afterwards Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora, 1943) *1957–1972 Edwin Owen (afterwards

Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert The Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert (''Full title'': Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora with Clonfert and Kilmacduagh) was the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Killaloe and Clonfert; comprising all of County Clare and part of counti ...

, 1972) ''For Deans of Killaloe and Clonfert see below''

Deans of Clonfert

*1308 Gregory O'Brogan *1319 James *13??-1392 Michael (or Nicholas) O'Kelly died *1407–1438 Thomas O'Longain *1460–1470 Simon McKeogh *1534 Roland de Burgo (made

Bishop of Clonfert The Bishop of Clonfert () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clonfert in County Galway, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title; but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with oth ...

1541 but remained Dean ''in commendam''; died 1580) *c1591 Donat O'Lorchan *1597/8 Arilan Loughlin *1622–1627 Revatius (or Ryvas) Tully *1627/8 Robert Mawe *1638 Samuel Pullein (fled to England, 1641, later

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, 1661) *''Interregnum'' *1661/2–1666 Richard Heaton *1666 Nicholas Proude *1669/70 Joshua Brooksbank *1692–1726 John Burdett *1726–1745 Robert Taylour *1745–1766 William Crowe *1766–1812 William Digby *1812–1850 Thomas Hawkins *1850–1864 Robert Mitchell Kennedy Kennedy's name is incorrectly printed as 'Edward Mitchell Kennedy' in both Vols. II and IV of ''Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae''
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*1864–1866 Charles Graves (afterwards

Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe The Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe was the Ordinary (officer), Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, which was in the Ecclesiastical province, Province of Archbishop of Cashel, Cashel until 1833, the ...

1866) *1866–?1897 James Byrne (died 1897) *?–?1906 Philip Graydon Tibbs (died 1906) *1926–1942 Le Bel Holbrooke Edward ffrench

Deans of Killaloe, Clonfert, Kilfenora and Kilmacduagh

*1972-1986 Francis Robert Bourke *1987-1995 Ernon Cope Todd Perdue *1996-2001 Nicholas Marshall Cummins *2002–2012 Stephen Ross White *2013–2021 Gary Paulsen *2021–present Roderick Lindsay Smyth

References

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