GA-STNL-0400

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

"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD." ST MATTHEW V. 8. IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF LOUISA WILMOT HERRIES THE BELOVED WIFE OF LIEUT. COLONEL F.S. HERRIES FOR SOME TIME A RESIDENT IN THIS TOWN SHE DIED AT SHARAVOGUE IN THE KING'S COUNTY ON THE 11th MARCH 1882 AGED 46 YEARS. AFTER A FEW DAYS ILLNESS AND WAS BURIED AT ETTAGH NEAR SHARA VOGUE. A HUMBLE AND SINCERE CHRISTIAN, A KIND FRIEND TO THE POOR, HER GENTLE AND AMIABLE DISPOSTION MADE HER BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER. THEN LET NO TEAR THINE EYE LIDS DIM O'ER THIS PALE HOUSE OF CLAY BUT THINK I REST AT PEACE WITH HIM WHO WIPES ALL TEARS AWAY. THESE HOLLOW EYES BUT SEEM TO SLEEP FOR OH! TO THEM IS GIVEN AN ENDLESS WATCH OF BLISS TO KEEP FOR THEY HAVE WALKED IN HEAVEN. "TO DAY SHALT THOU BE WITH ME IN PARADISE." Sl Luke XXIII. 43 ERECTED BY HER HUSBAND

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27272663
Longitude: 
-9.0537133799738
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
HERRIES
Notes: 

A white marble plaque on a black marble backing. At the top of the plaque there is a wreath of flowers, inside of which is inscribed a verse from St. Luke (given above). The sculptor's name "COATES DUBLIN (SCULPTORS)" occurs on the lower right hand comer of the monument. ^