Born: 18 May 1897, Main Street, Granard, County Longford
Entered: 23 June 1915, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1918

Father is a farmer and grocer and mother died in 1898.

Only child of the marriage to his mother. Has a half-brother and a half-sister from his father’s previous marriage. His father remarried again

Educated initially at his uncle’s National School with additional private tuition from him, and incuded attending carpentry classes at the Board of Agriculture in Granard, He then went to St Mel’s Seminary in Longford (1911-1914) and for his final year went to Mungret College SJ