Family of Parishes: Ardfield & Rathbarry | Barryroe | Clonakilty | Kilmeen & Castleventry | Rosscarbery

11 May 2025

Pastoral Message for the communities of the Family of Parishes

Read at all Masses on the weekend on May 10/11th 2025

The priests have worked together to create a fair and sustainable timetable for the months of June, July and August.

After careful reflection and discussion in recent weeks, we the six priests ministering in this family of parishes have developed a new summer timetable. It’s different from last years.

Summer Masses 2025

From Saturday 7 June 2025 the weekend Mass times will be as follows:

Saturday Vigil Mass

7:00pm - Clonakilty
7:00pm - Rosscarbery

Sunday Mass

8:30am - Clonakilty
9:00am - Courtmacsherry (July and August only)
10:00am - Ardfield
10:00am - Barryroe
11:00am - Clonakilty
11:00am - Rossmore
11:30am - Rosscarbery
11:30am - Timoleague

Fr. Ted Collins, Fr. Tom Hayes, Canon John Kingston, Canon Martin O'Driscoll, Fr. Fergus Ryan, Fr. Fergus Tuohy

You can check weekend Mass Times using this link

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Mass Calendar

21 April 2025

Online Book of Condolence is open

Following the announcement by the Holy See that Pope Francis has ‘returned to the House of the Lord’, Bishop Fintan Gavin invites the people of the Diocese of Cork and Ross to unite in prayer to God at this time.

“I invite the parishioners, priests, deacons and religious of our diocese to join as one with the faithful across the globe as we commend Pope Francis to the Lord.

We give thanks to Almighty God for the gift of Pope Francis as shepherd of the people of God and we thank God for his selfless service and dedication to the end of his earthly life.

We remember Pope Francis as one who challenged us to reach out to those on the margins and to bring God’s mercy to all those we encounter.

We pray together that Pope Francis’ call to all of us to make this Jubilee Year a Year of Hope may be fulfilled.

There was standing room only at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne on Thursday as Bishop Fintan presided at the Mass of Chrism

Parishioners travelled from across the diocese to join in the only Mass celebrated in the diocese on Holy Thursday morning.

The Mass was concelebrated by dozens of priests from the parishes, chaplaincies, religious orders and missionary societies in the diocese.

Deacon Frank McKevitt also ministered at the Mass along with Ministers of the Word and Eucharist, the Cathedral Choir directed by John Casey and altar servers from Cork and Barryroe.

Fr. Christy Fitzgerald and Fr Fergus Ryan were Masters of Ceremonies.