Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Cassin, Andrew, parish priest of Ferns
Parallel form(s) of name
- Andrew Cashin
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Born: Tintern, County Wexford
Entered: 1738,
Ordained: ???
Died: 16 July 1786, Ferns County Wexford
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING
◆ Old/15 (1) has “------- Cashin” RIP 1738 - should this be Ent??
◆ Old/16 has : “P Casline” corrected in pen to “Cashin”; DOB Tintern Wexford; RIP 1786 Ferns◆
◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Entrye for No Ch Name Cashin
DOB Tintern Wexford; RIP 1786 Ferns
His tomb was profaned by Protestant soldiers in 1798 (Rev James Roche, VG of Ferns is the authority for this, and he restored the monument)
Loose leaf Entry on Dr Andrew Cassin SJ
Very Rev. Andrew Cassin, D.D., S.J., was P.P. from 1762 to 1786, and was also Vicar General. He resided at Effernogue in the house now occupied by Mr. Sykes. His armchair is still
preserved by Mr. Foley. Dr. Cassin was highly esteemed by Bishop Sweetman. His thatched chapel was at Newtown, about half a mile from Ferns. He died on July 16th, 1786, aged 68, and was the last Jesuit that laboured as a priest in the diocese of Ferns.
Rev. Edward Redmond, nephew to Rev. Dr. Cassin, was appointed P.P. in 1786, having been curate in Ferns since 1777. He was generally known as “ Father Ned,” and, as a student in France, he saved the life of the great Napoleon. In November, 1789, he was given a curate. Rev. Myles O’Connor, who laboured till 1805. Ballyduff chapel was burned by the Yeomen on October 19th, 1798, as was also the chapel of Clologue, a week later. Ferns church (a small thatched edifice) shared the same fate on November 18th. Father Redmond died on February 11th 1819, and was interred in the grave of his uncle. On the tomb, in the cemetery, is the following inscription
Beneath are deposited the remains of the
Reverend Andrew Cassin, D.D.,
of the Society of Jesus,
Parish Priest of Ferns
and Vicar General of this Diocese.
He was appointed Pastor of Ferns in 1762
and died July 16th, 1786, in the
68th year of his age.
Also, the remains of his nephew,
the Reverend Edward Redmond,
who had been his curate from the year 1777,
and was his successor from the year 1786.
He died February nth, 1819, aged 79 years.
IThis tomb was erected in 1819 by
the Parishioners of Ferns, Kilbride, and Kilcomb,
as a tribute of respect to these venerated priests.
Places
Effernogue, County Wexford; Newtown, Wexford Town, County Wexford