Very Rev Daniel Keane
Title:
Very Rev
First Name:
Daniel
Middle Names:
Preferred Name:
Surname:
Keane
Order:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Ballybricken, Co Waterford
Country of Birth:
Ireland
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
St John's College, Waterford
Country of Ordination:
Ireland
Ordination Diocese:
Armidale
Seminary:
St John's College, Waterford, Ireland
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Gunnedah NSW
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Gunnedah NSW
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armidale | Armidale | Assistant Priest | 1906 | Campbell | |||||
| Armidale | Gunnedah | Assistant Priest | Feb | 1909 | Jul | 1918 | Campbell | ||
| Armidale | Gunnedah | Parish Priest | Jul | 1918 | Aug | 1944 | Campbell |
Biographical Notes
T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Keane, Daniel
Born [1876), Ballybricken, Co Waterford, Ireland, date unknown [1876). He was one of eight children, none of whom married. Details of education unknown. He studied at St John's College, Waterford and was ordained at St John's College on 21 June 1905. A fellow student was Maurice Ronayne. He volunteered for the Armidale diocese following the urgings of an older sister Mary, who had come out to New South Wales and entered the Sisters of Mercy at Wilcannia on 28 October 1891, being professed on 16 June 1894. His first appointment, after arrival in the diocese in 1906 was as assistant priest Armidale. In February 1909 he was transferred to Gunnedah as assistant priest, and remained in the town for the rest of his life, being appointed as parish priest in July 1918 on the resignation of James Martin Walsh. He was responsible for the construction of a new church in Gunnedah at a cost of £5,007. It was blessed and opened by Bishop P J O'Connor in June 1919. He then undertook the construction of a new presbytery adjacent to the church, officially blessed and opened by Bishop J A Coleman on 17 October 1937. He also arranged the construction of the Lourdes Grotto in the grounds of the Gunnedah convent. Churches at Kelvin and Mullaley were built during his period as parish priest. In December 1943 he was forced to enter Lewisham Hospital for lengthy treatment for illness, remaining there until April 1944 when he insisted on returning to Gunnedah. He died on 31 August 1944 in Gunnedah. He was buried at Gunnedah. His sister, a member of the Wilcannia-Forbes Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, died on 25 July 1957 in Parkes NSW.
(Sources: FJ 5 Aug 1909 p 11, 24 Jul 1919 p 35, NVI 5 Sep 1944, CW 14 Sep 1944 p 7, PCP 29 Jul 1957 p 1, Foley).
(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)