RO-CLBU-0021

Record Date: 
27 June 2015
Graveyard: 
Clonburren
Exact wording of epitaph: 

JESUS

MERCY

MARY HELP

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

THOMAS KENNY

DIED 31ST JULY 1916

HIS BROTHERS

JACK DIED JULY 1936

MICHAEL DIED 27TH MARCH 1968

DENIS DIED IN USA

THEIR UNCLE MICHAEL

DIED 2ND NOV 1939

HIS SISTERS NANIE AND MARIA

ERECTED BY JOE KENNY U.S.A

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.313878611111
Longitude: 
-8.0517319444444
Additional details
Erected by: 
Erected by Joe Kenny USA.
Number of people commemorated: 
7
People commemorated: 
Name: 
THOMAS
Surname: 
KENNY
Date of death - day: 
31
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1916
Name: 
JACK
Surname: 
KENNY
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1936
Relationship with first person: 
BROTHER of THOMAS
Name: 
MICHAEL
Surname: 
KENNY
Date of death - day: 
27
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1968
Relationship with first person: 
BROTHER of THOMAS
Name: 
MICHAEL
Surname: 
KENNY
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1939
Relationship with first person: 
UNCLE of THOMAS
Name: 
NANIE
Name: 
MARIA
Notes: 

The address for this grave is Cappaleitra.

Update July 2020: 

Parents of Thomas Kenny and siblings were Thomas Kenny Cappaleitra and Mary Kenny ( maiden name 'Kenny'). Thomas Kenny married Mary Kenny on 17 Jan 1882. (Source: Roots Ireland Moore Catholic Parish Church Records). No civil marriage record located to indicate townland or parents names. 

Thomas and Mary Kenny had six sons (source: Roots Ireland & Irish Genealogy websites).

Thomas ( 1882); Patrick (1884, died 1894); Denis (1887); John/Jack (1892); Michael (1897 died 1899); Michael 1899. They did not marry. 

Census Record 1901 for Thomas and Mary Kenny: 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Cloonburren/Cappaleitrim/1655110/

Census Record 1911 for Thomas and Mary Kenny: 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Cloonburren/Cappaleitrim/777061/

Nanie and Maria commerorated on the headstone would appear to be sisters of 'Uncle Michael'. Michael Kenny civil death record states he died on 16th November 1939 in Clonburren aged 78 years, farmer and was a bachelor. 

Census record for this Michael Kenny in 1911: 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Cloonburren/Cappaleitrim/777061/