“ Barlow's appointment to the Deanery of Peterborough. Elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1841, he was among the senior moderators in ethics and logic in 1842, and was placed in the first class in the final divinity examination in 1845. At Trinity began his intimate and life-long friendship with William Connor Magee, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough and Archbishop of York, and his hardly less close friendship with William Pakenham Walsh, afterwards Bishop of Ossory. ”

“ O'Brien) and priest in 1847 by the Bishop of Limerick (Dr. Knox) . A canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, he was vicar of Laracor, Meath, from 1854 to 1862, Ponnellan lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1857, and Dean of Cashel from 1862-1873. ”