News and Notices

We are delighted to launch this website for our family of parishes at:

NorthsideParishes.ie

This website is a joint initiative of Clogheen-Kerry Pike Parish, Farranree Parish, Gurranabraher Parish and Knocknaheeny-Hollyhill Parish that we hope will allow parishioners easy and ready access to information about our various parishes or, at the very least, help them to know where they can get more information through our parish offices and priests of our family of parishes.

We hope that this website allows you to stay connected and up to date with all that is happening in each of our parishes. If this is your first visit, you are especially welcome. Please continue to visit us for up-to-date parish news, prayers, reflections and other resources. Thank you to Denis O’Regan of faithful.ie for his support in developing this website.

Fr Sean

As we look towards the month of November, our thoughts turn once more to honouring our departed loved ones and praying for them

There is a wonderfully strong tradition in our parishes of gathering together as a community in each of our local cemeteries for the Annual Blessing of Graves during the first weeks of November.

This year, these services will take place as follows:

St Mary’s Cemetery – Curraghkippane
Sunday 1st November 2026 at 1:30pm

St Catherine’s Cemetery – Killcully
Sunday 8th November 2026 at 3:00pm

and we invite you to join us in remembering loved ones together.

We will publish the times for other cemeteries in the city in the coming weeks as the information becomes available to us.

We have loved them in life.
Let us honour them in death.

It has been a summer of change in our own family of parishes

Fr Cian has finished his time with us and begun a sabbatical year in which we wish him well.  Fr Prasad and Fr Tijo, members of the Indian Province of the Sacred Heart Missionaries, have joined us and enjoyed a very warm welcome right across our communities. Whilst they will be living in St Mary’s on the Hill, they will serve across the four Churches of our family of parishes, and we hope that they find great happiness and fulfilment in their ministry with and amongst us.

We are delighted that Fr Aidan Vaughan returned to Gurranabraher after a period of convalescence, and we wish him continued health.