Rev Andrew Monaghan
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Andrew
Middle Names:
Preferred Name:
Surname:
Monaghan
Order:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Kilteely, Co Limerick
Country of Birth:
Ireland
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Country of Ordination:
Ireland
Ordination Diocese:
Seminary:
Carlow College, Carlow, Ireland
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Bundaberg QLD
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Bundaberg QLD
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brisbane | Bundaberg | Assistant Priest | Fr Denis Long, Pioneer and Early Priests | ||||||
| Brisbane | Maryborough | Fr Denis Long, Pioneer and Early Priests | |||||||
| Brisbane | Caboolture | Parish Priest | Oct | 1895 | Fr Denis Long, Pioneer and Early Priests |
Biographical Notes
Caboolture, Bundaberg, etc, Qld
Denis M. Long, Pioneer and Early Priests, Archdiocese of Brisbane, Deceased or retired by 1929, 2021, p 48:
Fr Andrew Monaghan
Andrew Monaghan was born in the parish of Kilteely County Limerick in Ireland c1859. He received his early education in one of the local schools proceeding to St Patrick's Ecclesiastical College at Carlow in September 1879. He was ordained a priest on 1 August, 1886. Fr Monaghan arrived in Sydney with his Carlow classmate James O'Reilly aboard the Orizaba on 19 November 1886.
He was stationed in Bundaberg, as curate to Fr Rossolini for five years. His death report says he spent eighteen months in Maryborough, but Pugh's Almanac records him as ministering in Nambour/Caboolture, part of the Gympie parish, from late 1892, until, in January 1894, when he was appointed as the first parish-in-charge of the Caboolture mission. He had been in that parish less than two years, when, at the age of 36 years, he died suddenly on a visit to Bundaberg, on 17 April 1895.
The Gympie Times carried a report of his death
Death of the Rev Father Monaghan
A Bundaberg telegram in our last issue conveyed the sad intelligence of the death there, suddenly, on Wednesday night of the Rev Father Andrew Monaghan, PP of Caboolture. His numerous friends and acquaintances were shocked to learn of his sudden and unexpected demise, and to his Gympie friends especially the news appeared all the more appalling, as it was on the morning of that day that he left Gympie for Bundaberg, being then in the best of health and spirits.
From the information received from Bundaberg, it seems he was seated in the presbytery talking to the local priests in his usual genial manner, and appeared to be in his usual health, when he was suddenly seized with a fit of apoplexy, and – notwithstanding all that medical aid could do – expired within half an hour. This sad news will cast a gloom not only over the Caboolture district, where he so lately ministered, but in every Catholic homestead from the North Pine River to Gladstone, his loss will be severely felt and lamented.
Father Monaghan had scarcely reached the prime of life, being only 36 years of age. …
After a brief sojourn with his parents, he sailed for Australia, arriving in Brisbane about the middle of November of the same year, accompanied by the Rev James O'Reilly, CC, Gympie, whose college mate and shipmate he had been, and very soon after his arrival he was appointed curate to the late Fr Rossolini, at Bundaberg, where he remained for five years. He was then transferred to Maryborough, where, after about 16 months spent in that place, his health was failing and, on the advice of this Archbishop, he took a trip to New Zealand, from which colony he returned apparently much improved in health. He was then promoted to be PP of Caboolture, which charge he held to his death. In the different parishes where he laboured he was universally esteemed and beloved, his zeal, piety, and simplicity of heart endearing him to all classes.
The 7 o' clock Mass at St Patrick's Church yesterday morning was offered up for the repose of the soul of the late Father Monaghan; at which Mass, the children from both the convent and boys' schools received Holy Communion for the same intention. The scene in the church was most edifying and affecting, both from the number of the children who approached the Holy Table, and from the large congregation which attended the Mass – all showing their earnest and fervent piety how deeply they were moved by the sad event.(1)
Footnotes
1. Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette, 20 Apr 1895, p. 6.
Reproduced by permission of Fr Denis Long.