Background
He was born in Skreen, County Sligo, and was a relative of the scholar Owen Connellan.
He was born in Skreen, County Sligo, and was a relative of the scholar Owen Connellan.
He started a school of his own, but had more success when he became principal of a school established by Albert Blest, a Baptist, in Greenville, Coolaney, in the early 1800s. Among other works he produced an Irish-English dictionary and edited a series of song-books He died at Sligo, on 25 July 1854.