Dean of Killaloe and Clonfert

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 Bishop of Elphin, 1660) Interregnum 1661 Jasper Pheasant 1692–1699 Jerome Ryves (afterwards Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, 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, 1972) For Deans of Killaloe and Clonfert see below