Personnel issues and reduced congregations in some churches along with unsuitable times for some communities all suggest that last year’s winter timetable needs to be revised and reduced
The new timetable will continue to concentrate on the parish churches and the other churches will have Mass once a month. So there will still be ten to twelve Masses celebrated in the Family of Parishes each weekend.
The need for communities to think and look beyond their own local church building and to think instead about parish - and then family of parishes - is an ongoing challenge.
A sustainable timetable needs to provide for having four priests available on a given weekend (each offering three Masses in different places). In order to allow for choice for people, travel by priests and a dignified celebration, some of the Mass times are changing slightly.
This is the new timetable. It will be announced and explained over the next two weekends and will be effective from the first weekend of October.
Revised times of Masses in our Family of ParishesMass Times as from Saturday 4 October 2025
Saturday
- 5:00pm - Convent (Not open to the public)
- 6:00pm - Rosscarbery
- 7:00pm - Clonakilty
- 7:00pm - Bealad (First Saturday)
- 7:00pm - Clogagh (Second Saturday)
- 7:00pm - Rathbarry (Third Saturday)
Sunday
- 8:30am - Clonakilty
- 9:30am- Darrara (First Sunday)
- 9:30am - Lisavaird (Second Sunday)
- 9:30am - Courtmacsherry (Third Sunday)
- 10:00am - Ardfield
- 10:00am - Barryroe
- 11:00am - Clonalkilty
- 11:00am - Rossmore
- 11:30am - Rosscarbery
- 11:30am - Timoleague
The timetable will be discussed and revised, if necessary, before next summer.
Booking Masses
Each of the weekend Masses may have up to three intentions for the Mass. These may include a month’s mind, an anniversary or another intention.
At each weekend Mass, you may have a person’s anniversary included in the list of people being prayed for.
Masses offered during the week are offered for one intention only.
