Background
He was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of the Very Review Walter Blake Kirwan, Dean of Killala from 1800 to 1805 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
He was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of the Very Review Walter Blake Kirwan, Dean of Killala from 1800 to 1805 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
Trinity College.
He was Dean of Kilmacduagh from 1839 to 1849. And then of Limerick from then until his death on 13 July 1868.