The four parishes of Fanlobbus Union enjoy a rich history stretching back as far as the sixteenth century.

Originally centred on a small church on the eastern outskirts of Dunmanway, the Parish of Fanlobbus moved its centre into the town itself in the late seventeenth century, joining with Drinagh's Christ Church in 1718, and later with St. Edmund's, Coolkelure, and St. Matthew's Drimoleague.

Together these four churches form the current "Fanlobbus Union of Parishes" under the pastoral care of Canon Patrick Hewitt.

Described in the early nineteenth century as a "well-looking, industrious, thriving people", some aspects of the parish have not changed in two hundred years. Other aspects have changed considerably, not least in the modernisation of the Parish hall in Drinagh, accomplished through the hard work of our parishioners, and the recent renovation of the Model School, which many of our children attend.

Nowadays, we pride ourselves in looking outwards to the wider Ecumenical community, with links not only to other parishes and dioceses in the Church of Ireland and our neighbours in the Roman Catholic and Methodist Churches, but also to the Anglican and Episcopal Communities worldwide.