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Daniel Delany DD (b. Jan. 1747 Paddock Mountrath Laois Ireland-d. 1814) was the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. He was born on the first of two sons into a farming family in January 1747. His father and younger brother died when Daniel was still young and his mother Elizabeth Delany (née Fitzpatrick) sent him to her sisters to be cared for and to develop an education.