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.[citation needed ]
Deans of Killaloe
St Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe 1602–1624 Hugh O'Hogan [1]
1624–>1627 Richard Hacket [1]
1628 Alexander Spicer [1]
1637–1643 John Parker [1]
1643–1649 John Parker (son of above, deprived 1649 but later appointed Bishop of Elphin , 1660)
Interregnum
1661 Jasper Pheasant [1]
1692–1699 Jerome Ryves (afterwards Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral , 1699) [1]
1699–1727 James Abbadie (also known as Jakob Abbadie, writer) [1]
1727–1749 Giles Eyre [1]
1750–1761 Hon Charles Talbot Blayney, 8th Baron Blayney [1]
1761–1768 William Henry [1]
1768–1772 Hon Joseph Deane Bourke (afterwards Dean of Dromore , 1772 and later Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin ) [1]
1772–1780 William Cecil Pery (afterwards Dean of Derry , 1780) [1]
1780–1781 Samuel Rastall [1]
1781–1787 Hon Thomas Stopford (afterwards Dean of Ferns , 1787) [1]
1787–1790 John Murray [1]
1790–1808 Peter Carleton [1]
1808–1828 John Bayly (afterwards Dean of Lismore , 1828) [1]
1828–1830 Allen Morgan [1]
1830–1871 John Head [1]
1871–1880 James Hastings Allen [1]
1880–1886 Joseph Frederick Robbins [1]
1886–1917 Robert Humphries [1]
1917–? Henry John Gillespie [1]
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