CO-KNVL-0003

Record Date: 
5 June 2013
Graveyard: 
Knockavilla
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Erected By

some of his comardes of the

Cork West Riding Force

to the memory of

Sergeant Martin Brennan

Royal Irish Constabluary

who died

27 January 1902

 

R.I.P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.816728055556
Longitude: 
-8.6802213888889
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Sergeant
Name: 
Martin
Surname: 
Brennan
Date of death - day: 
27
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1902
Notes: 

As the story goes Sergeant Brennan was keen on one of the Hawkes girls but her family did not approve of the relationship. Unlike other graves in this graveyard, most of which face East, Sgt. Brennan's headstone faces South East towards the Hawkes house, East of the nearby road..

 

Probably  the  only  member  of  the  R. I. C.  buried  in  this  Graveyard.