He was born on 18 September 1863 in Mount Bolton, Portlaw, to an Irish-speaking family.
[2] He was ordained a priest at All Hallows College, Dublin, in 1892,[3] and worked in Salford in Manchester.
He pursued further studies in Germany at the universities of Greifswald and Freiburg, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy.
[4] He held that post for a short time before moving to Berkeley University in California.
Henebry suffered from tuberculosis for his entire adult life,[5] and partially because of this he returned to Ireland in 1903 and taught for a time in St. John's College.