LA-DYEN-0043

Record Date: 
29 October 2013
Graveyard: 
Dysart-Enos
Exact wording of epitaph: 

THE BURIAL PLACE

OF

JOHN AND CATHERINE

O MEARA

IN LIFE THEY WERE HONOURED

AND BELOVED

IN DEATH THEY WERE DEEPLY

AND UNCEASINGLY LAMENTED

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE. AMEN.

THIS STONE IS RAISED

TO THEIR MEMORY

BY

THIER SORROWING CHILDREN

1845

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Laois
Latitude: 
53.016833333333
Longitude: 
-7.2326666666667
Number of people commemorated: 
3
People commemorated: 
Name: 
JOHN
Surname: 
O MEARA
Name: 
CATHERINE
Surname: 
O MEARA
Relationship with first person: 
WIFE
Name: 
Charles
Surname: 
Meara
Date of death - day: 
11
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1863
Notes: 

The base of the cross is inscribed but the top has been damaged. The name Charles Meara was inscribed on a seperate fragment of the cross.

This memorial is No. 228 in the survey published by Dysart-Enos conservation group in 2005 and is illustrated on an information board at the site