CO-SMCY-0804

Record Date: 
9 August 2013
Graveyard: 
Collegiate Church of Saint Mary
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here lieth...Margret....

Memorial Type: 
Grave slab
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.955073429952
Longitude: 
-7.8534811699989
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Margret
Surname: 
Smith?
Notes: 

In Thomas Dineley's "Observations on a Journey" 1681 there is a sketch of a flagstone with an inscription around the edge (as this one is) ,which reads:"Here lyeth the body of Margaret the daughter of Richard Smith who was buried this xx day of March MDCXXXVII. IB.R.B.Look o but cease your tears and do not weep, My death no death is but a pleasant sleep,O blessed sleep to me that am both free. From sting of death and from death's victory,O death where is thy sting where is thy power, I do triumph in Christ my saviour,Cease  to lament sith I am now in bliss,Though here entomb'd my soul in heaven is." 

In 2012 the only epitaph which this reader could discern was "Her lieth....Margret"