The Dean of Clonmacnoise is an office based at the Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Trim in the United Diocese of Meath and Kildare within the Church of Ireland.
Abigail Sines has been the incumbent since October 2025.
List of deans of Clonmacnoise
1561 William Flynn 1579 Miler M'Clery 1601 William Leicester 1628 Marcus Lynch 1629 Richard Price 1633 Samuel Clarke 1634 William Burley 1661 John Kerdiffe 1668–1681 Henry Cottingham (afterwards Archdeacon of Meath, 1681) 1681 Theophilus Harrison 16nn–1720 Stephen Handcock (deprived under James II, but restored 1697) 1720–1741 Anthony Dopping (afterwards Bishop of Ossory, 1741) 1742 John Owen 1761 Arthur Champagne 1800–1806 Charles Mongan Warburton (afterwards Bishop of Limerick, 1806) 1806 Thomas Vesey Dawson 1811->1842 Henry Roper 1847–1862 Richard Butler 1862–1882 John Brownlow 1882–1885 Charles Parsons Reichel (afterwards Bishop of Meath, 1885) 1885–1892 Francis Swifte 1892–1900 Richard Dowse 1900–1904 Graham Craig 1904–1912 Richard Stuart Dobbs Campbell 1923-1930 Richard Stewart Craig
1958-1961 Robert Charters 1961-1979 Thomas Victor Perry 1979-1989 Thomas Andrew Noble Bredin 1989-1996 John Alan Gardiner Barrett 1997–2002 Andrew William Ussher Furlong 2002–2012 Robert William Jones 2013–2024 Paul Bogle 2026–present Abigail Sines
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