Background
He was born in 1854 at Mensal Lodge, Old Leighlin, County Carlow, to Patrick Foley and Anne Delaney.
He was born in 1854 at Mensal Lodge, Old Leighlin, County Carlow, to Patrick Foley and Anne Delaney.
He was educated locally at Leighlinbridge National School and at Carlow College where he went on and trained for the priesthood, continuing his clerical studies from 1874 to 1881 at Maynooth College.
He served as a church curate in Portuguese Laoise, before returning to Saint Patrick"s College, Carlow as a professor in 1886. He held the position as president of the college for the remainder of his life. He died on 16 September 1937 at the age of 83 and is buried in the Carlow College cemetery.