RO-ATCI-0089

Record Date: 
21 April 2020
Graveyard: 
Athleague Glebe
Exact wording of epitaph: 

HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF EDMD

GHIRAGHTY WHO DEPD  YS LIFE  YE 25TH

OF MAY 1780  AGD 42 YRS ALSO THOS &

PETER HIS SONS MAY THEY REST IN

              PEACE AMEN

      MATTHEW GERAGHTY WHO

DEPD THIS LIFE.....APRIL 18_6 AGED

68 YEARS AND HIS BELOVED WIFE

MARY GERAGHTY WHO DEPD YS  LIFE

20 OF MARCH 1817.......AGED....2.YEARS

ERECTED BY THEIR SON

MICHAEL GERAGHTY FOR THEM & POSTERITY

Memorial Type: 
Grave slab
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.570052777778
Longitude: 
-8.2613055555556
Number of people commemorated: 
6
People commemorated: 
Name: 
EDMOND
Surname: 
GHIRAGHTY
Date of death - day: 
25
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1780
Age: 
42
Name: 
THOMAS
Surname: 
GHIRAGHTY
Relationship with first person: 
SON
Name: 
PETER
Surname: 
GHIRAGHTY
Relationship with first person: 
SON
Name: 
MATHEW
Surname: 
GERAGHTY
Date of death - day: 
14
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1866
Age: 
68
Name: 
MARY
Surname: 
GERAGHTY
Date of death - day: 
20
Date of death - month: 
March
Name: 
MICHAEL
Surname: 
GERAGHTY
Notes: 

DATE OF DEATH FOR MATTHEW SEEMS TO BE "1866" BUT THE AGE OF THE STONE, THE STYLE OF SCRIPT AND THE OTHER INFORMATION ON THE STONE WOULD MAKE A DATE LIKE "1806" MORE LIKELY.THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A YEAR DATE OF DEATH FOR MARY BUT "1817" WOULD SEEM LIKELY.  HER AGE MAY BE 72 YEARS.