List of deans of Clonmacnoise
- 1561 William Flynn [1]
- 1579 Miler M'Clery [1]
- 1601 William Leicester [1]
- 1628 Marcus Lynch [1]
- 1629 Richard Price [1]
- 1633 Samuel Clarke [1]
- 1634 William Burley [1]
- 1661 John Kerdiffe [1]
- 1668–1681 Henry Cottingham (afterwards Archdeacon of Meath, 1681) [1]
- 1681 Theophilus Harrison [1]
- 16nn–1720 Stephen Handcock (deprived under James II, but restored 1697) [1]
- 1720–1741 Anthony Dopping (afterwards Bishop of Ossory, 1741) [1]
- 1742 John Owen [1]
- 1761 Arthur Champagne [1]
- 1800–1806 Charles Mongan Warburton (afterwards Bishop of Limerick, 1806) [1]
- 1806 Thomas Vesey Dawson [1]
- 1811->1842 Henry Roper [1]
- 1847–1862 Richard Butler [1]
- 1862–1882 John Brownlow [1]
- 1882–1885 Charles Parsons Reichel (afterwards Bishop of Meath, 1885) [1]
- 1885–1892 Francis Swifte [1]
- 1892–1900 Richard Dowse
- 1900–1904 Graham Craig [1]
- 1904–1912 Richard Stuart Dobbs Campbell [1]
- 1923-1930 Richard Stewart Craig
- 1958-1961 Robert Charters
- 1961-1979 Thomas Victor Perry
- 1979-1989 Thomas Andrew Noble Bredin
- 1989-1996 John Alan Gardiner Barrett
- 1997–2002 Andrew William Ussher Furlong
- 2002–2012 Robert William Jones
- 2013–present Paul Bogle