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Priesthood in Ireland
« on: Tuesday 30 September 14 23:21 BST (UK) »
My great-great-great-great uncle Edward Glackin was a priest in Killymard, Donegal Ireland from at least 1846. I found him as one of the managers in two separate schools in Ardara area from 1846-1847. I don't know what happened to him after and can't fin any info from the Killymard church where he was a priest. I know he may have been stationed somewhere else. A family friend seems to think he went to Tipperary I think where he was buried - apparently there was some priest place there that they liked to be buried at??? I'm not sure. If anyone could enlighten me or even give me info on what it was like to be a priest back then, how he would have become a priest, the rules of being a priest etc.

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Katelyn
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Re: Priesthood in Ireland
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 01 October 14 15:23 BST (UK) »

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Re: Priesthood in Ireland
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 01 October 14 18:56 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much - those articles have both made the matter more clear. Do you know if my ancestor would have been trained in Maynooth - him having been living in Donegal - or was there a smaller, more local place for this education to happen?
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Re: Priesthood in Ireland
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 01 October 14 20:12 BST (UK) »
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj91/horgan.htm

In this link read section "Family and Famine"  Again mentions Maynooth. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kieran's_College      seminary in Kilkenny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick's,_Carlow_College     seminary in Carlow

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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/St_Patricks_College_a.htm
Under heading "College opening" there is a list of counties from which students came..Donegal is included 


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Re: Priesthood in Ireland
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 01 October 14 20:34 BST (UK) »
Wow thank you, that was such an interesting read on life in early Ireland and on the impact of church etc. Thank you, I really appreciate it.
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Re: Priesthood in Ireland
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 02 October 14 20:24 BST (UK) »
There is a book that lists priests ordained having studied at Maynooth. It lists Edward Glacken attending between 1835 and 1841, and being ordained in 1841 for the Diocese of Raphoe. It would be best to contact the diocesan offices to ask about him. He would have had to transfer diocese to end up in Tipperary. Not impossible but probably rare. You could try newspapers as well, the Freeman's Journal and local papers, for obituaries. No such thing as a central place for priests to be buried if that's what you mean? They could be buried where they liked, but normally in their final parish or in their own native parish. Your thread is on the wrong board as well. A moderator might move it for you if you send a pm.

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Re: Priesthood in Ireland
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 02 October 14 21:17 BST (UK) »
No such thing as a central place for priests to be buried if that's what you mean?

Hi,

The idea of a central burial site for priests might not be an incorrect assumption.  Priests, like anyone else, could indeed be buried wherever they or their families wished, but in Scotland (and perhaps in Ireland too) some (arch)dioceses have a section of a local [Catholic] cemetery dedicated as a burial place for priests of the (arch)diocese.  One of my own relations was a priest buried as recently as the late 1970s in the 'priests' plot' of the diocese from which he came.

I have also seen sections of local cemeteries reserved for members of religious communities from local convents.  Again, this is in Scotland, but the same arrangement may exist in Ireland.

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Brian
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Re: Priesthood in Ireland
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 02 October 14 21:27 BST (UK) »
@Rockford - religious congregations, yes for cemetery plots, but in my experience of it dioceses in 19th century Ireland, and perhaps even now, wouldn't have had plots for burials of their priests. Part of the reason for this is that religious congregations would have paid for the funerals/burials of their members but priests would have been responsible for their own finances.

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Re: Priesthood in Ireland
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 02 October 14 22:10 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for your help - I am definitely getting a better picture. I think that Edward Glacken who went to Maynooth must be my ancestor! He would have been 29 in 1835 so it's very possible. The diocese of Raphoe would be correct also if he was working in his home place. I'm so glad this is where he studied because I am now, 179 years after he first enrolled, attending Maynooth college studying (although not theology!) How amazing! It makes it so much more special. :) Where is this book that you speak of? Also what exactly do you mean by contacting the diocese? The Raphoe diocese or is there some higher authority? I'm not sure why this family friend believes Edward to be burried in Tipperary, I'll inquire more about that. Thank you all.
Hanna, Donoghue, Johnson, Williams, Glackin, Bradley, Fenlon, Carroll, McGinley, Haughey, Holmes, Cross