FR JOHN HANRATTY IS APPOINTED PARISH PRIEST IN MONASTERBOICE

January 1965

VERY Rev. John Hanratty, who has been a curate in St. Peter’s Parish, Drogheda, for the past 17 years, takes up an appointment as parish priest of Monasterboice this Saturday.

He will replace the late Fr. Paddy Coyle, PP who died just before Christmas. A native of Dundalk and son of the late Mr and Mrs. Paddy Hanratty, Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Fr. Hanratty was a popular figure around Drogheda where he was involved in the Legion of Mary, Vincent De Paul and local bridge club of which he was president for a period.

He was educated in the CBS, Dundalk, and St. Patrick’s Seminary, Armagh, and ordained at Maynooth in 1952. His career spanned the parishes of Dromiskin, . Haggardstown and Ballymacnab, Co. Armagh, until he came on transfer to Drogheda in 1964.