Statement on School Admission Policies and Equality Bishop Leo O’Reilly The enrolment policies of faith schools have prompted the Equality Authority to express concern at “the emergence in effect of segregated primary school provision for black and minority ethnic students”. This is indeed regrettable, but it is not the fault of faith schools, which […]
Officially launched on Thursday, 12th June 2008 in the Diocesan Pastoral Centre by Cardinal Seán Brady This book was compiled by Francis J. MacKiernan and Raymond Dunne This hardback 400 page book will be an important source book for historians and other researchers and it will be of great […]
The Welcoming Address by Bishop Leo O’Reilly at the Launch of ‘The College Boys’ St Patrick’s College, Cavan, 12 June 2008 Your Eminence Cardinal Seán, Rev Fathers, Sisters, family and friends of Bishop MacKiernan, Mr. Raymond Dunne and members of his family, Past Pupils of the College – among whom I see Ambassador Frank Cogan, […]
Address by Bishop Leo O’Reilly at the Mass in honour of Cardinal Seán Brady in the Cathedral of SS. Patrick and Felim, Cavan 16 December 2007 Your Eminence, my dear people, This is a historic occasion as we welcome the first Cavan man and the first priest of the diocese of Kilmore to be […]
Formerly part of the Parish of Killargue, Creevelea was joined to Inishmagrath in a revision of parish bounderies in 1969. The original Creevelea Friary at Dromahair was closed down in 1650 and the friars moved to the townland of Tawnylea. As a result Tawnylea became known as New Creevelea. While there is no townland called […]
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PRIMARY SCHOOLS AT A CROSSROADS BY Fr. ULTAN MC GOOHAN Role of the Churches in primary education The Holy Communions and the Confirmations are almost over for another year. These annual celebrations show the school, the home and the parish working together at their best. The joyful celebration of these sacraments are the […]
St. Patrick’s Church, Maudabawn was erected in the townland of Killatee, Maudabawn in 1825 and dedicated by Bishop Farrell O’ Reilly. A local tradition holds that the 1825 building replaced an earlier thatched chapel. The dedication to St. Patrick reflects the much earlier St. Patrick’s, Drumgoon. The 1825 building was described in the Freeman’s Journal […]
The first church to be built in what was once known as Upper Laragh was in the townland of Cormeen. It was built in 1796 when Rev. Edward McCormack was parish priest. This church lasted less than a generation, however in the Jubilee Year 2000 a new shrine was erected on the site where the […]
This church was built in 1979 when James McCabe was parish priest. The solemn dedication and opening of St. Mogue’s took place on 19th of August of that year. The architects were John gibbons and Associates and Mr. Joseph McCauley, Dublin. The building contractor was a local man, Mr. James McGovern, Bawnboy. St. Mogue’s is […]
