RO-KLBG-0209

Record Date: 
14 May 2016
Graveyard: 
Kilbegley
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IHS 

O LORD HAVE MERCY ON 

THE SOUL OF MICHAEL SHEA

WHO DEPD THIS LIFE NOV 3RD 1881

AGED ... YEARS

ALSO HIS BROTHER PATRICK SHEA

DIED 15 JUNE 1867 AGED 1 YEAR

MICHAEL'S SON THOMAS SHEA

DIED 4TH SEPT 1871 AGED 7 YEARS

MICHAEL'S WIFE BRIDGET NEE TREACY

HER SON MICHAEL SHEA DIED MAY

29th  1940  AGED 69 HIS DAUGHTER

MARGARET DIED DEC. 24. 1941

AGED 15. HER MOTHER BRIDGET SHEA

DIED MAY 28. 1960. AGED 68

HER SON JOHN JOE

DIED 8TH APRIL 2003 AGED 78 YEARS

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.321407222222
Longitude: 
-8.1429444444444
Number of people commemorated: 
8
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Michael
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
3
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1881
Address: 
(Clonshask)
Name: 
Patrick
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
15
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1867
Age: 
1
Relationship with first person: 
Brother
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
1871
Age: 
7
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Bridget
Surname: 
Shea [née Treacy]
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
Michael
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
29
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1940
Age: 
69
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Margaret
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
24
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1941
Age: 
15
Relationship with first person: 
Granddaughter
Name: 
Bridget
Surname: 
Shea [nee Guinan]
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1960
Age: 
68
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter-in-Law
Name: 
John Joe
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
8
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
2003
Age: 
78
Relationship with first person: 
Grandson
Notes: 

Address for this headstone is Clonshask. Patrick Shea died 1867 aged 1 should possibly be Thomas Shea who is recorded as having died aged 1 on the very same date in Cappaleitra, Moore.

Bridget Shea who died in 1960 was nee Guinan from Guinan's Bridge, Clonshask, parish of Moore. She married Michael Shea Clonshask on 20th July 1916 in Moore Chapel. Bridget was daughter of Thomas Guinan. 

1901 Census for Shea: 

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

1911 Census for Shea: 

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

1901 Census for Bridget Guinan ( later Shea): 

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

1911 Census for Bridget Guinan ( later Shea): 

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