We know that there has been a Church in Cabinteely from at least 1790 with current Church opening in 1836. Below is the list of the priests who served in the parish from 1829. It is not the full list. Some were Parish Priests and others curates. At various times Cabinteely has been a standalone Parish, also part of Loughlinstown, Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire), Ballybrack (which included Little Bray) , Dalkey and up to 1974 was the Parish of Cabinteely-Foxrock.
Bartholomew Sheridan | 1829-1862 |
John Harold | 1850-1868 |
Joseph Flanagan | 1859-1865 |
Joseph O’Connell | 1865-1866 |
Terence Dolan | 1866-1886 |
Joseph Carroll (Dalkey) | 1865-1866 |
Denis Petit | 1881-1885 |
Peter Monahan | 1885-1887 |
Robert Carrick | 1885-1887 |
Henri J Lube | 1886-1889 |
John O’Donnell | 1889-1892 |
Edward Quinn (Ballybrack-Cabinteely) | 1894-1906 |
Richard J Connell (Ballybrack-Cabinteely) | 1892-1923 |
John Grimley (Ballybrack-Cabinteely) | 1894-1903 |
Michael O Hea (Ballybrack-Cabinteely) | 1906-1917 |
John Fennelly (Ballybrack-Cabinteely) | 1915- |
Joseph Gorman (Ballybrack-Cabinteely) | 1906-1911 |
Eugene McSweeney | 1914-1915 |
John Ryan | 1917-1938 |
Morgan Crowe (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1930-1935 |
DJ McGrath | 1922-1925 |
Charles Finnegan (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1925-1947 |
Andrew Griffith (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1935-1941 |
Joseph Killeen (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1938-1949 |
John Fitzpatrick (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1949-1952 |
Carbury Healy | 1949-1954 |
Frank Quinn | 1947-1955 |
William O’Rourke | 1955-1963 |
Bernard McMahon | 1952-1965 |
Gerry Haugh | 1955-1963 |
Jeremiah Hurley | 1957-1964 |
Anthony Camac (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1971-1973 |
John Ignatius O’Connell (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1964-1972 |
Malachy J Mahon (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1963-1973 |
Dermot O’Neill (Cabinteely-Foxrock) | 1963-1974 |
George O’Sullivan | 1963-1988 |
Desmond Forristal | 1967-1969 |
Paul Spellman | 1968-1970 |
James Tormay | 1970-1973 |
Patrick Gleeson | 1970-1973 |
John (Paddy) Battelle | 1973-1974 |
Diarmuid Martin
(later Archbishop of Dublin) |
1973-1974 |
Francis Meehan | 1974 |
Larry O’Sullivan | 1978-1984 |
Oliver Crotty | 1984-1992 |
Tom O’Keeffe | 1988-2008 |
Paul Callan | 1992-1998 |
Chris Miley | 1995-2005 |
Conor Ward | 1998-2015 |
Colm Kenny | 2001-2004 |
Damian Farnon | 2005-2006 |
Michael O’Grady | 2004-2005 |
Jeremy Seligman (Deacon) | 2016-2021 |
Arthur O’Neill | 2006- |
Aquinas T Duffy | 2016-2023 |
Donal Roche | 2023 |
I acknowledge the assistance of Máire Ní Chearbhaill from Cabinteely Parish and two books by Fr J Anthony Gaughan The Archbishops, Bishops and Priests who served in the Archdiocese of Dublin 1900-2011 Dublin: Kingdom Books, 2012 and The Archbishops, Bishops and Priests who served in the Archdiocese of Dublin 1900-2011 Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Kingdom Books, 2013.
Fr Aquinas