CO-CTCH-0136

Record Date: 
25 September 2013
Graveyard: 
Christ Church Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

FAREWELL THIS WORLD I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THEE

AND NOW I'M CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY OF ME

THY SMILES I COULD NOT NOR BY FROWNS I FEAR

MY HEADS AT REST.  I NOW LYE QUIET HERE

WHAT FAULTS YOU SEE IN ME BE SURE YOU SHUN

AND LOOK AT HOME ENOUGH THERE IS TO BE DONE

WILLIAM GOODWIN ATKINS

DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 4TH IN THE 52 YEAR OF HIS AGE 1797

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747338055556
Longitude: 
-8.7366913888889
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
M Goodman
Surname: 
ATKINS
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1797
Notes: 

This headstone is transcribed in George Bennett's History of Bandon dated 1869