GA-STNL-0374

Record Date: 
23 December 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Beneath Lie the Remains of Eliza O Hara wife of Geffrie O Hara E/qr. she was an Engli/h - woman hone/t, /incere, charitable, a loving and obedient wife, and in every re/pect a good example to her Sex. She lived beloved, and died regretted, after a long and painful illne/s, on the 20th of July 1790 aged 62. Here also lieth Geffrie O Hara E/qr. formerly Captain in the E. India /ervice who after many voyages /etteled in Galway the place of his birth & died much lamented on the 25'th April 1795 aged 77. He was a good /eaman an upright magistrate & an honest man

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27272663
Longitude: 
-9.0537133799738
Additional details
References: 
Burke's (1976), 915-16, (a detailed pedigree of this family). Fleetwood Berry (1912 B), 73. Fleetwood Berry, (Ed. Higgins) (1989), 73. Some slight corrections are made to Fleetwood Berry's reading of this inscription. Hardiman (1820), 252
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
O’HARA
Notes: 

This is an oval-shaped white marble wall plaque set in an oval dark marble frame. It is located on the North wall of the "Chapel of Christ". The lettering is very skillfully incised. For other O'Haras see Nos. 25, 298, 299 and 349. For the descendants of those O'Haras see Library and Heritage Project Files under No. 374 (For Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas O'Hara and John Temple Reilly of Scarvagh House, Co. Down). See also No. 349 for further information on the O'Haras.