Canon Patrick Power (8 March 1862 – 16 October 1951), was a noted historian of the Catholic Church in Ireland. He was born on 8 March 1862, in Callaghane,

Co. Waterford County Waterford () is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and is part of the Southern Region. It is named after the city of Waterford. Waterford City and County Council is the local authority for the county. The population o ...

and educated at the

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and St. John's College, Waterford.Canon Patrick Power A Talk
by Msg. Michael G. Olden presented at Canon Patrick Power Seminar, WIT, 8 March 2012 Power was ordained a priest and worked in Liverpool and Australia and was later attached to Waterford Cathedral. He was also a diocesan schools inspector and lecturer in archaeology at

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between 1910 and 1931. He was Professor of Archaeology at

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between 1915 and 1934, and a member of the

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. During his time in Cork he was awarded a D.Litt., by the

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. He was also appointed a Canon of the Catholic Church. He died 16 October 1951.

References

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The Place-Names of Decies (2nd ed.)
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1952

Works

* ''Places and Names of Decies'' (1907) * ''Parochial History of Waterford and Lismore'' (1912; 1937) * ''Lives of Declan and Mochuda'' (ITS 1914) * ''Place Names and Antiquities of S. E. Cork'' (1917) * ''Ardmore-Deaglain'' (1919) * ''Prehistoric Ireland'' (1922) * ''Early Christian Ireland'' (1925) * ''The Ancient Topography of Fermoy'' (1931) * ''A Bishop of the Penal Times'' (1932) * ''A Short History of Co. Waterford'' (1933) * ''The Cathedral and Priory of the Holy Trinity, Waterford'' (1942) * He was also the editor of the ''Journal of Waterford and S. E. Ireland Archaeological Society''.

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