CO-CVEE-0046

Record Date: 
8 July 2014
Graveyard: 
Canovee (Cannaway)
Exact wording of epitaph: 

INRI

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

RICHARD COLLINS P.C.

SPRING HILL LISSARDA

WHO DIED NOV r 25 th 1925

SACRED HEART OF JESUS

HAVE MERCY ON HIM

RICHARD COLLINS DIED JAN 28. 1940

NELL O'SHEA DIED DEC. 9. 1941

ELLEN COLLINS DIED APRIL 26 1969

HANNAH COLLINS DIED AUG. 15. 1979

R. I. P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.887084722222
Longitude: 
-8.8729813888889
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
Hickey, Aherla
Number of people commemorated: 
5
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Richard
Surname: 
Collins
Date of death - day: 
25
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1925
Address: 
Springhill, Lissarda
Name: 
Richard
Surname: 
Collins
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1940
Address: 
Springhill, Lissarda
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Nell
Surname: 
O'Shea
Date of death - day: 
9
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1941
Address: 
Lehenagh
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Ellen
Surname: 
Collins
Date of death - day: 
26
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1969
Address: 
Springhill, Lissarda.
Relationship with first person: 
Wife.
Name: 
Hannah
Surname: 
Collins
Date of death - day: 
15
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1979
Address: 
Shandangan
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter in law
Notes: 

The 1911 Census states that a Richard Collins, 54, was living on a farm in Lissardagh with his wife Ellen, 34, son Denis, 14, son Richard, 13, son John, 9, daughter Margaret, 7, daughter Ellen, 4, son William, 2. His wife Ellen was nee Wall from Lissarda. They had two more children born after 1911, Donal, buried in grave No. 47, and Sheila who married Flor O'Riordan, Carrigaline. Sheila was buried in Douglas Graveyard iln 2004. John, who lived in Monallig, is buried in Coachford Graveyard with his wife Mary nee O'Riordan. Ellen, who was married to Dan O'Shea, Lehenagh, is buried in grave 46.

In Griffith's Valuation, 1852, the farm is recorded as being occupied by Denis Collins, father of Richard, who was married to Margaret Driscoll on 11th Feb. 1844. The marriage was in Kilmurry parish and they lived at Springhill. Denis came from West Cork and apart from Richard his family may not be buried in Canovee.

Richard went to America and came home in 1900 and bought the farms in neighbouring Shandangan and in Monallig, where his sisters Kate and Mary lived according to the 1911 census.