sentences:  The parish came into being sometime from 1536 on but the first clerical records related to it are later.One, the calendar of Bishops of Waterford, notes that Marmaduke Middleton, Vicar of Coolock (and Dunboyne, as well as Rector of Killure), was consecrated as Bishop in 1579 (he resigned from that office in 1581).The second, from 1615, refers to one John Credlan as "Rector of Coolock and Curate at Rathenny" (Raheny).