Robert Naylor (priest)

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Robert Naylor (died 1661) was a Seventeenth Century priest in Ireland."A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-821745-5}}

A cousin of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork,"Cromwellian Ireland: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1649-1660" Barnard, T.C. p151: Oxford, Clarendon, 1975 {{ISBN|019820857X}} he was ordained in 1625 and was Prebendary of Brigown in Cloyne Cathedral"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p325: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 until he became Dean of Lismore in 1630."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p168: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 In 1640 he became Dean of Limerick,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p396: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 a post he held until his death in 1661.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}