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 | | Patrick Dowling, P.P., of Stradbally, and V.G. of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, who uniting in his character the utmost simplicity and purity of manners with the most endearing social virtue, discharged for 53 years his pastoral duties with great fidelity, and departed to a better life on the 29th of November, 1826. |
 | | The Sisters, besides attending to their duty proper, of the education of the poor, have undertaken the management of an extensive Orphanage, the inmates of which are, for the most part, children who have been rescued out of the hands of those who would have robbed them of their Faith. |
 | | The Irish name of this parish, which is situated in the barony of Stradbally, signifies Domus Maidoci, "the house or Monastery of St. Maidoc." This was the name of the celebrated Patron of Ferns, in the County of Wexford, of Dromlane, in the County Cavan, and of Rosinver, in Leitrim. |
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