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KK-CONA-247
Record Date:
14 January 2013
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
ERECTED
BY
ELLEN DOWNEY
CONAHY
IN LOVING MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
EDMOND DOWNEY
WHO DIED 10th JAN 1910 AGED 55 YEARS
ALSO HER DEAD LITTLE CHILD NICHOLAS
AGED 4 YEARS
also his parents and sister
who are interred here
HIS WIFE Mrs E. DOWNEY
DIED 12th JAN 1935 HIS BROTHERS
REV. PATRICK DOWNEY & MICHAEL
MICHAEL DOWNEY
DIED 1st JAN. 1970 AGED 72 YRS.
HIS WIFE
MARY DOWNEY nee CLOHOSEY
DIED 16th JUNE 1998 AGED 94 YRS.
Number of people commemorated:
6
People commemorated:
Name:
Ellen
Surname:
Downey
Date of death - day:
12
Date of death - month:
January
Date of death - year:
1935
Address:
Conahy
Name:
Edmond
Surname:
Downey
Date of death - day:
10
Date of death - month:
January
Date of death - year:
1910
Age:
55
Relationship with first person:
Husband
Name:
Nicholas
Surname:
Downey
Age:
4
Relationship with first person:
Son
Title:
Rev.
Name:
Patrick
Surname:
Downey
Relationship with first person:
Son
Name:
Michael
Surname:
Downey
Date of death - day:
1
Date of death - month:
January
Date of death - year:
1970
Age:
72
Relationship with first person:
Son
Name:
Mary
Surname:
Downey nee Clohosey
Date of death - day:
16
Date of death - month:
June
Date of death - year:
1998
Age:
94
Notes:
These Downeys were known as "The Edmonds", Michael Downey was called Mikey Edmond.
They were also known as "The Lumpers". Lumpers were a potatoe that was grown the time of the Famine and the nick name goes back to that time. It is not a derogatory term but may mean they were the first to grow those potatoes locally.
Michael's son Eamon moved from Conahy to farm in Aharney, Lisdowney
