Rev
Thomas
Doyle
Born in Tombrick, County Wexford, Ireland
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Died
at age 85
in Ramsgrange, County Wexford, Ireland
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Dec 2020
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Biography
Thomas, parish priest and agrarian agitator, was born on 21 December 1817 in Tombrick, Co. Wexford, the son of Patrick Doyle, a large tenant farmer (76 acres).
Tombrick townland is in the Electoral Division of Castledockrell, in Civil Parish of Ballycarney, in the Barony of Scarawalsh, in the County of Wexford. [1]
Thomas Doyle C.C. of Hook from 1853 to 1858, first P.P. of Ramsbrange 17 May 1863.[2]
Doyle eventually earned the title ‘Land League priest’. He chaired an important Land League meeting at New Ross on 26 September 1880.
Canon Thomas Doyle 83 yrs, resided in 1901 in house 54 in Ramsgrange (Rathroe, Wexford). [3]
Thomas Doyle died 21 Oct 1903 in Ramsgrange, County Wexford, 86 yrs old, parish priest. [4]
"Death of Canon Doyle - The death is announced at Ramsgrange, County Wexford, of the Very Rev Thomas Canon Doyle, P.P., at the age of 86 years. Canon Doyle was first ordained nearly sixty years ago, and as a young priest had experience in New Ross of the famine and plague of years of 1847-48." [5]
Sources
- ↑ https://www.townlands.ie/wexford/scarawalsh/ballycarney/castledockrell/tombrick/
- ↑ "History of the diocese of Ferns" by Flood, William H. Grattan (William Henry Grattan), 1859-1928; Renehan, Laurence F Publication date 1916 p 22 https://archive.org/details/historyofdiocese00floo/page/22/mode/1up
- ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Wexford/Rathroe/Ramsgrange/1798348/
- ↑ https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1903/05644/4588466.pdf
- ↑ Waterford Standard - Saturday 24 October 1903
- Canon Thomas Doyle, by Adam Pole https://www.dib.ie/biography/doyle-canon-thomas-a2759
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