Dr. Richard Alphonsus Sheehan, born Bantry 1845, ordained for the Diocese of Cork 1868. 1892 he was appointed Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. 1901 has Irish.
Dr. Richard Alphonsus Sheehan, born Bantry 1845, Bishop of Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. 1892 presiding in Bantry at the Funeral of his aunt Jane Dillon nee Roycroft, nephew of Charles Roycroft, Magistate and Land Owner, Macroom
Mrs. Jane Dillon funeral Skibbereen Eagle 29th October 1892.
Charles Roycroft (Raycroft), -1900), Gurteenroe House, Macroom, 1892. Sister Mrs (Jane) Thomas Dillon, Bantry funeral 1892 a ‘who’s who’ in West Cork. wife Ellen, 1861 Stamp Distributor, Macroom, C. Raycroft. Uncle of Bishop of Waterford, Rev. Dr. Sheehan. Subscriber to Testimonial to Rev. John McCarthy, Administrator, Coachford. Mentioned as nephew of Charles O’Regan, Esq., Esq, died 1873, Ballydehob, aged 78 and his brother Rev. James O’Regan, Cork. Charles Raycroft was a Justice of the Peace and a director of the Cork and Macroom Direct Railway Company in the 1880s. He lived at Gurteenroe House and in the mid 1870s owned 617 acres in Co. Cork. Probate £7,457
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