Ballymena

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McDonagh, Walter Patrick, 1911-, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/141
  • Person
  • 09 October 1911-

Born: 09 October 1911, Drogheda, County Louth
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 17 May 1943 (from Pymble, NSW, Australia)

Father, Edmond, was Chief Constable in the RIC. and the family then lived in Deerfin House, Deerfin, Ballymena, County Antrim. Mother was Mary Ellen (White).

Eldest of two boys with four sisters.

Early education was at a National School in Ballymena for two years and then at Castleknock College, Dublin for five years.

Baptised at St Peter’s, Drogheda, 11/10/1910
Confirmed in Monaghan parish in May 1922

1929-1931: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1931-1934: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1934-1937: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1937-1938: Loyola, Hong Kong - studying language
1938-1940: Wah Yan, Hong Kong, Regency
1940-1943: Canisous College, Pymble NSW, Australia - studying Theology

After leaving was reported by ASL provincial Meagher to have got a job in Norwood, Adelaide.