{"id":921,"date":"2012-07-04T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T11:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=921"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:50:28","slug":"obituary-mrs-gwendella-cassidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/obituary-mrs-gwendella-cassidy\/","title":{"rendered":"OBITUARY. MRS. GWENDELLA CASSIDY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader 6 June 1959<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Obituary<br \/>\nMrs. Gwendella Cassidy, Monasterevan<br \/>\n<\/strong>The last link with Monasterevan\u2019s once famed distillery and brewery, which was founded in 1784, and began the town\u2019s era of prosperity, was severed by the death in England of the proprieter, Mrs. Gwendella Cassidy, widow of the late Mr. Robert Cassidy of Togher House, Monasterevan.<br \/>\nFormerly Miss Gwendella Bellairs, of Italy, she came to Ireland with her father, who was then Italy\u2019s Ambassador to Ireland. She has one son, Mr. James Cassidy, who resides in England, and one daughter, Mrs. Redmond, who predeceased her by some years.<br \/>\nIn 1870, James Cassidy built Togher house, now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Parkinson. It was previously the residence of Sir George Holden, Bart., and for a short period the temporary home of the famous tenor, Count john McCormack.<br \/>\nThe distillery, built on a site of portion of the lands of St. Evin\u2019s Monastery, was founded by Mr. John Cassidy, magistrate and merchant, who first came to Monasterevan from Kinitty, Co. Offaly, as estate agent for Moore Abbey. It was carried on by the Cassidy family until 1934, when it finally closed as a distillery.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>The obituary of Mrs. Gwedella Cassidy, Monasterevan, from the Leinster Leader of 6 June 1959<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>The obituary of Mrs. Gwedella Cassidy, Monasterevan, from the Leinster Leader of 6 June 1959<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrial-heritage","category-obituaries"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}