The Killoughry's Starting In County Clare, Ireland:Information about Patrick Killoury
Patrick Killoury (b. October 28, 1899, d. December 12, 1987)
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CLARE CHAMPION18TH DECEMBER 1987PAGE 3
KILOWRY, RE. HILARY
"DEATH OF CLARE FRANCISCAN"
The death has occurred in Galway of Rev. Hilary Kilowry, O.F.M., one of the best known preachers among the Franciscan community in Ireland.
Fr. Hilary was born in Clonakilla, Kilmihil in 1899, one of a family of fourteen children.He was ordained in Rome in 1925 and after ministering in Italy, he served in Cork and Limerick Friaries before going to the Abbey in Galway where he spent over forty years.He conducted Retreats and Missions all over Ireland and Britain.
He was a grand-nephew of Very Rev. A. J. White, O.F.M., who built the Ennis Friary and died in December 1911.Fr. Hilary is survived by his brother Cornelius, who lives in the U.S.A. and two sisters, Mrs. Nora O'Dea, Carrrigaholt and Mrs Peggy Lewis, London.
The Provincial of the Franciscans, Very Rev. Fiacra O'Ceallaigh, O.F.M., a native of Ennis was concelebrant of the Requiem Mass in the Abbey, Galway.Most Rev.Dr. Eamon Casey, Bishop of Galway, presided at the Mass and imparted the final blessing.The funeral took place to the new Cemetery, Galway.
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS FROM THE SCHEMATISMUS OF THE ORDER (1961), P 492
Born in Carrowduff, diocese of Killaloe, 28 October 1899.Son of Michael Kilowry and Mary O'Loughlin.Received into the Order of Friars Minor (OFM) 7th Sept 1919.Simple Profession 8th Sept 1920; Solemn Profession 1923.Ordained priest 12 July 1925.
OBITUARY
Patrick was a Clare man who was born in Carrowduff in 1899 but grew up in Kimihil.He was one of the first boarders at St. Mary's in Galway and went to the Franciscan novitiate in Killarney in 1919 and there took the name Hilary.After studies there and in St. Isidores Rome, he was ordained in 1925.He remained on at St. Isidores, our Franciscan House in Rome, as Master of Students and Vicar in 1926 before moving to Cork in 1931 to begin his pastoral ministry.He was an outstanding preacher with a powerful voice and a great range of expression.Hilary became Guardian in Limerick in 1936, returned toCork in 1939 and made his final move to the Abbey in Galway in 1945.He became popular as a confessor, kind and sympathetic, capable of saying just the right word.He was also a man of prayer, spending much time in the choir.Hilary had a bubbling sense of fun, particularly within his community, as he rejoiced over the strange and humorous events of life.He went to God, as he would say himself, on the 12th December 1987 while a patient in Merlin Park Hospital, Galway and was buried in the Franciscan grave in Bohermore in Galway.
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Burial: Unknown, New Cemetery, Bohermore, County Galway.