Deceased
Parish Of Birth
Watergrasshill / Glenville
Colleges Attended
St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth Co Kildare, Ireland
Pontifical Irish College Rome, Italy.
Details Of Ordination
Rome
1838
Appointments
Ministry – USA – 1870
Ministry Abroad/Westminister
Ministry Abroad/Australia
Ss. Peter & Paul’s CC
St. Patrick’s College, Carlow/Professor : 1846 – 1849
Notes
His ministry in Australia was as Principal of a Catholic College. Subsequently he went to America but failing health obliged him to return home prematurely. The monument over his grave asserts that as a last act of his ministry he accompanied his bishop – Bishop John Quinlan (whose ancestral home was Killeagh, Co. Cork) from Mobile, USA to Rome to assist as theologian at the First Vatican Council 1869 -1870. From Rome he returned to his native Cork.
He was a nephew of Fr. Daniel Prout, P.P., Watergrasshill (1806-1830).
Date Of Death
12/12/1870
Place Of Death
Mercy Hospital, Cork
Place Of Burial
Ballinaltig Cemetery, Watergrasshill, Co. Cork