RO-KLBG-0168

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

JESUS MARIA JOSEPH

PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF

ANTHONY AND CATHE RINE

BRABAZON WHO EREC ED 

THIS STONE IN MEMORY

OF THEIR DEAR CHILD

ROSE BRABAZON WHO

DEP.  ED  THIS LIFE NOV BR

THE 22 ND  1792 AGED 9 MONTHS

Memorial Type: 
Grave slab
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.321699722222
Longitude: 
-8.1430730555556
Additional details
Erected by: 
Erected by her parents Anthony & Catherine Brabazon
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Rose
Surname: 
Brabazon
Date of death - day: 
22
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1792
Age: 
0
Notes: 

This small slab is located adjacent to the wall, very close to the church graves enclosure railings. Commerorated on the headstone is Anthony and Catherine Brabazon, parents of Rose Brabazon. The following, from Rev Patrick K. Egan. The Parish of Ballinasloe. First Edition. 1960, is possibly a reference to the same Anthony and Catherine Brabazon.

‘Anthony Brabazon who resides at Birchgrove in 1787, married at that time Catherine ffrench, daughter of Sir Chares ffrench of Castle ffrench. They had two children, Thomas and Catherine. Thomas inherited the property, but died unmarried at Birchgove in 1879. Catherine married John O’Shaughnessy and had a son, John, who succeeded on his uncle’s death. The land concerned was that part of the denomination of Beagh now known as the townland of Beagh Brabazon, containing 446 stature, acres, which represented the allotment of 192 plantation acres made in the Cromwellian Settlement to Edward Brabazon”. It would seem likely that this is the same family who are commemorated on this inscription in the surrounds of the chapel ruins in Kilbegley.

 Rev. Egan further refers to the Brabazon family association with Creagh Chapel:

‘’a little altar, consisting of a table, frontal slab and plinth in cut limestone, was provided by the leading Catholic family in the parish, and bears the inscription: Pray for M. Anthony and Mrs. Catho Brabazon who caused this Altar to be erected April the 2d 1756”. 

http://www.brabazonarchive.com/pages/Brabazon%20of%20Roscommon%2001.htm