page_title: Dean of Limerick and Ardfert
section_title: Deans of Ardfert
hierarchical_section_title: Dean of Limerick and Ardfert / Deans of Ardfert
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Ardfert Cathedral, Co. Kerry, Ireland
context_page_description: The Dean of Limerick and Ardfert is based in the Cathedral Church of St Mary's in Limerick in the united diocese of Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert within the Church of Ireland. St Brendan's Cathedral, Ardfert was destroyed by fire in 1641.
  The current incumbent is The Very Reverend Niall Sloane.
context_section_description: 1603–1603 Richard Southwell
  1603 Robert Chaffe
  1619/20-1628 William Steere (afterwards Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe 1628)
  1630 Charles Baden
  1635 Thomas Gray
  1661 Daniel Witter (afterwards Dean of Down and later Bishop of Killaloe 1669) 
  1664 Thomas Bladen 
  1686 John Richards
  1727/8 James Bland
  1728 William Smyth (Archdeacon of Meath, 1730)
  1732–1747 Charles Meredyth, son of Thomas Meredyth of Newtown, co. Meath
  1747–1766 Sir Philip Hoby, 5th Baronet
  1766–1772 Edward Bayly (afterwards Archdeacon of Dublin, 1772)
  1785–1802 Thomas Graves (afterwards Dean of Connor, 1802)
  1802–1842 Gilbert Holmes
  1847–1861 Arthur Irwin
  1861–1879 John Godfrey Day (died 1878)
  1879–1894 Thomas Moriarty
  1895–1906 Abraham Isaac
  1906–1911 James MacEwan
  1911–1917 Robert Beatty
  1918–1924 George Power
  1924–1946 Robert Rowan
  1947–1959 Charles Haines
  1959–1966 Robert Thompson
  1966–1985 Charles Gray-Stack
caption: Ardfelt cathedral ruins
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