Patrick Finegan (1858–1937) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Kilmore from 1910 to 1937.
An illuminated address congratulating him on his appointment and praying his "piety, scholarship and patriotism" was presented to him by the people of Ballinamore and was returned to the area a century later.
[3] He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Kilmore by Pope Pius X on 11 September 1910.
[2][4][5] He invited the Norbertine order to his diocese in 1924 and they created the Priory at Kilnacrott, Co Cavan as well as an adjacent secondary school, St Norbert's College.
[It was from this Abbey that the notorious sexual predator priest Fr Brendan Smyth would later settle and operate.