St. Fachtna's Abbey Graveyard, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, Ireland
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ST. FACHTNA'S ABBEY GRAVEYARD, ROSSCARBERY, COUNTY CORK, IRELAND
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Photo No.0
St. Fachtna's Cathedral sign.
This Cathedral church of St Fachtna stands on a site which ..
| been a centre of devout Christian worship for over fourte..
| hundred years. St. Fachtna founded a monastery and fam.. |
school here at the end of the sixth Century A.D.

Photo No.1
Cemetery overview

Photo No.2
St Marys Benedictine Priory Ruin

Photo No.3
Cemetery gate

Photo No.4
Picture of the church

Photo No.5
BISHOPS of ROSS
1085 NEACHTAIN MAC NAGHTEN.
1161 ISAAC COWEN.
1168 O'CARROLL.
1175 BENEDICT.
1195 MAURICE.
1197 DANIEL.
1216 FLORENCE.
1224 R. or F.
1250 MALACHY
1251 FLORENCE.
1254 MAURICE.
1269 WALTER OMYCHIAN.
1275 P. O'HOOLAHAN.
1291 LAURENCE or WALTER.
1310 MATTHEW O'FINN
1331 LAURENCE O'HOOLAHAN
1336 DENIS
1379 BERNARD O'CONOR.
1402 STEPHEN BROWN.
     MATTHEW O'DRISCOLL.
1418 WALTER FORMAY.
1423 JOHN BLOPWICK.
1426 CONNOR MAC FAOLCHADHA.
1448 DONNELL O'DONOVAN.
1459 JOHN.
1460 ROBERT COLINSON.
1473 ODO O'DRISCOLL
1502 JOHN EDMUND COURCEY.
1517 JOHN O'MURHILLA.
1519 THADY O'REILLY.
1523 BONAVENTURA.
1526 DERMOT MAC CARRY.
1544 DERMOT MAC DONNELL.
1551 JOHN.
1554 MAURICE O'FIHELLY
1559 MAURICE O'HEA.
1561 THOMAS O'HERLIHY.
1582 WILLIAM LYON.
     UNITED TO CORK
1618 JOHN BOYLE.
1620 RICHARD BOYLE.
1638 WILLIAM CHAPPEL
1661 MICHAEL BOYLE.
1663 EDWARD SYNGE.
1679 EDWARD WETENHAIL.
1699 DIVE DOWNES.
1710 PETER BROWNE.
1735 ROBERT CLAYTON.
1745 JEMMET BROWNE.
1772 ISAAC MANN.
1789 EUSEBY CLEAVER.
1789 WILLIAM FOSTER.
1790 WILLIAM BENNET.
1794 THOMAS STOPPORD.
1805 JORD JOHN BEORGE BERESFORD.
1807 THOMAS ST. LAWRENCE.
1831 SAMUEL KYLE.
1848 JAMES WILSON.
1857 WILLIAM FITZGERALD.
1862 JOHN GREGG.
1878 ROBERT SAMUEL GREGG.
1894 WILLIAM EDWARD MEADE.
1912 CHARLES BENJAMIN DOWSE.
1933 WILLIAM E. FLEWETT.
1938 ROBERET T. HEARN
1952 GEORGE O. SIMMS.
1957 R. GORDON PERDUE.
1978 SAMUEL G. POYNTZ.
1988 ROBERT A. WARKE.
2000 PAUL COLTON.

Photo No.6
In memory of | JAMES CALNAN | Burgatia | died 30  July 1972. |
aged 87 years | R.I.P. | CALNAN

Photo No.7
In memory of | the  COUGHLAN | Family | Clonakilty | R.I.P.

Photo No.8
Left side:
In | loving memory | of | JOHN JOSEPH DALY | Froe |
Rosscarbery | who died Oct. 17 1953 | aged 18 years | JOHN
DALY | died 8 May 1973 | R.I.P. | JOHANNA DALY | died 8 Dec.
1972 | DALY

Right side:
In memory of | PATRICK DALY | Duncannon | died Dec. 11. 1977.
| aged 86 yrs. | MARGARET DALY | (nee COAKLEY) | 10-4-1893 /
20-4-1989 | and son JIM. | R.I.P. | DALY

Photo No.9
In loving memory of | The DALY Family | Reengreena Glandore |
especially parents | MARY & DANIEL | ..unimhneas Sloral

Photo No.10
In | memory of | the DEASY Family | Kilkernmore. | rest in
peace | erected by KEVIN | DEASY

Photo No.11
In loving memory of | JAMES DONOGHUE | 9. Croaghtamore
Gardens, Cork | formerly of Ardagh | Rosscarbery | died
5.Dec.1985, aged 70 years | his beloved wife KITTY | died 12.
May 1995. | R.I.P. | DONOGHUE

Photo No.12
The burial place | of | DENIS DONOVAN | and family | of
Rosscarbery | Sacred to the memory of | DENIS DONOVAN | who
died June 9. 1872 | aged 74 years | may he rest in peace. |
Amen. | ELIZABETH DONOVAN died | 18 March 1945 | ? P. DONOVAN
died | ... July 195?

Photo No.13
In loving memory of | JAMES DONOVAN | South Square |
Rosscarbery | died Oct. 21. 1956 | his wife MARY | died Jan
15, 1956 | his sisters | ANNIE died Feb 27. 1941 | MOLLIE died
Feb 11. 1944 | MARY DONOVAN | died May 17. 1996 | R.I.P.

Photo No.14
In loving memory | of | JULIA DRAPER | Bohonagh, Rosscarbery |
died 1st July 1967 | her husband RICHARD | died 19th Jan. 1983
| his grandnephew | EDWARD DRAPER | died 16th Jan. 2012  aged
62 years | Jesus  trust in you | DRAPER

Photo No.15
In memory of | JOHN FINN | Derryduff | died 22 Nov 1960 | his
son | WILLIAM PATRICK | (BILL) | died 10 May 1993 | aged 58
years | JULIA FINN | died 3. March 1994 | aged R.I.P. 96 yrs |
DENIS F. FINN | died 20. March 1998 | aged 65 yrs.  FINN

Photo No.16
In | loving memory | of | TIMOTHY NOEL | FITZPATRICK |
Lisavaire | died 4 May1958 | aged 13 years | TIM FITZPATRICK |
died 8 Jan 1951 | R.I.P. | erected by his | loving parents | &
his wife NORA | died 16. April 1981
Bottom plaque:
Also rememering | MARY KATE FITZGERALD | ? March 1941 .. |
daughter of  ..

Photo No.17
In loving meory of | GERARD FLAVIN | Gullane | Rosscarbery |
died 5. Aug. 1979 | aged 21. yrs. | his father | CORNELIUS |
died 28. Feb. 1989. | aged 87 years | R.I.P | FLAVIN

Photo No.18
JEREMIAH FLAVIN | Ballinaclough | died 22 April 1963 | JOHN
FLAVIN | died 15 Oct 1982 | THERESA FLAVIN | died 12 April
1990 | R.I.P. | FLAVIN

Photo No.19
The high honorable JOHN EVANS FREKE 6th Baron Carbery | whose
active usefulness and pious liberality are attested by this
church which was built through his e?eretions | together with
the schools. which he founded and endowed on his estates. |
For more than half a century he zealosly performed his public
duties | as a landlord, a magistrate and a member of the
british senate | and in the various relations of private life
he secured the esteem of all who knew him | upright and
exemplary as his character appeared in the eyes of the world.
| He well knew that he could find acceptance with God, | Only
through the merits of a crucified redeemer. | He was born on
the 11th of November 1765, was married on the 15th of January
1785 to | CATHARINE CHARLOTTE third daughter of ARTHUR GORE ?
Earl of Arban. | and dying at Castle Freke on the 12th of May
1843 was interred in the adjoining family vault | this
monument is consecrated to his memory by his widow, in mourn??
remembrance of their union through a period of 62 years, and
in the hope that his example will animate his successors for
more generations. | the rightous shall be had in everlasting
remembrance  Psalm 112:6

Photo No.20
In loving memory of | JOHN and HANNAH GOOGAN | their son
WILLIAM | and grandchildren | FRANKIE GOOGAN | MICHAEL GOOGAN
| JOHN (BUDDY) GOOGAN | interred in INDIA | R.I.P.

Photo No.21
top:
In loving memory of
left side:
DANIEL GORMAN | Froe | died 7 Feb 1964 | his wife JOHANNA |
died 21 Aug 1976 | R.I.P. |GORMAN
right side:
JOHN HAYES | Froe | died 11 Dec 1967 | JAMES GORMAN | died 3
Fe 2005 | R.I.P.
bottom:
GORMAN

Photo No.22
In loving memory of | BATH HAYES, | Ballyvoreen. | died Jan.
1945. | SYLVESTER HAYES. | Ballyvoreen. | died Feb. 1955. |
DENIS HAYES | Millcove. | died Dec. 1979. | JEREMIAH HAYES. |
Ballyvoreen. | died July 1989. | R.I.P. | HAYES

Photo No.23
In loving memory of | DENIS and CATHERINE | HAYES  Cregg | and
their daughters | JULIA DONOVAN | MARIE GOUGHLAN. | BRIDGET
CRISBIE | HAYES

Photo No.24
Center stone:
MARY JANE HAYES | Derry | died 26. Aug 1935 | aged 57 years |
and her husband | MICHAEL JOHN HAYES | died 21. Feb. 1951. |
R.I.P.

left stone:
their son JAMES HAYES | Rosscarbery & Boston | 5-1-1900  —
13-1-1988 | his beloved wife ANNE KINGSTON HAYES | Bohonagh &
Boston | 11-3-1900  —  29-4-1988
right stone:
with love | we remember | MARY SUSAN HAYES | MCCARTHY | Boston
& Cork | 11-9-1937  —   16-3-2015 | a chiertia ...

Photo No.25
Erected by | JAMES HAYES | of Tralong | in memory of | his
beloved wife | NANCY | who died Feb 5th 1917 | aged 68 years |
also in memory of | his father mother and family | who are
interred in this grave | and to the memory of the above |
JAMES HAYES | who died Nov 27 1926 | May their souls rest in
peace

Photo No.26
In loving memory of
left side:
JAMES HAYES | Chapel St. | Rosscarbery | died 23. Jan. 1941 |
his wife MARGARET | died 15. March 1953 | R.I.P.
right side:
PATRICK HAYES | died 23. March 1988 | and his wife KITTY |
died 4. Feb. 2011. | CATHERINE COAKLEY | died 1. May 1987 |
JULIA O'DRISCOLL | died 30. March 1993 | R.I.P.
bottom:
HAYES

Photo No.27
To the Glory of .. | and In loving memory of | HENRY JONES
HUNGERFORD | of Cahirmore in this parish | who departed this
life on the 20th Nov 190? | aged 80 years | this table is
placed by | his widow and children | JOHN H..

Photo No.28
In loving memory of | the | HURLEY | family | Babbery |
Rosscarbery | .. | HURLEY

Photo No.29
In lving memory of | JO HURLEY | 22, Rossa Ave., | Rosscarbery
| who died 25th March 199? | rest in peace | HURLEY

Photo No.30
In loving remembrance of |
left side:
ROBERT | FINBAR KELLY | aged 12 years
middle:
JANE | ANN WILSON | aged 9 years
right side:
BRIAN | ANDREW BODDEN | aged 9 years
Article in the Irish Examiner

Photo No.31
center top:
In memory of | MARYANNE KEOHANE | of Ardagh | died April 21
1956 | aged 88 years. | also her father | PATRICK KEOHANE |
and her nephew | PHIL HODNETT | R.I.P.
center middle:
In loving memory of | WILLIAM H. HODNETT | Rosscarbery | died
26. May 1974. | R.I.P.
bottom left:
In loving memory of  JAMES (JIM) HODNETT | Ardagh Heights |
who died 26. May 1998. | R.I.P.
bottom right:
His beloved wife | MARY HODNETT | (nee O'BRIEN) | who died
18th Jan. 2010 | R.I.P.

Photo No.32
In memory of | the | MCCARTHY family. | Cashel. | and
Goolnagay. | R.I.P. | MCCARTHY

Photo No.33
left side:
Treasured memories | of | JEREMIAH MCCARTHY | 1912 - 2000 |
Cashel | and East Square | Rosscarbery | died 19th April 2000
right side:
his beloved wife | ELMA MCCARTHY | (nee HODNETT) | 1916 — 2003
| died 2nd January 2003 | their infant grandson | MARTIN HUNT
| 20th May 1981 | rest in peace

Photo No.34
Treasured memories | of | JEREMIAH MCCARTHY | 1912 - 2000 |
Cashel | and East Square | Rosscarbery | died 19th April 2000

Photo No.35
Pray for the souls of | PATRICK MCCARTHY | Ballinaclough, |
died Nov. 1957. | his wife KATTY | (nee COLLINS) | died May
1971. | their son DENIS | died 25 Aug. 2009.

Photo No.36
In loving memory of | BRIDGET MINIHANE | North Sq. Rosscarbery
| died March 1951 | her child HANNA THERESA | died June 1926 |
her husband | JEREMIAH | died Nov. 1926 buried | in
Drimoleague

Photo No.37
Their son | JEREMIAH PATRICK | (JERRY) | 8th March 1927  —
17th December 2013 | cherished husband, father, | brother and
grandfather | Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam | Close to the ruins
in the abbey | lies a grave that is dear to me | 'tis there my
loved ones are bureid | God grant that their souls are free

Photo No.38
In loving memory of | KATE MOORE (nee TOBIN) | died 10. June
1952. | SHEILA O'NEILL (nee MOORE) | daughter of KATE & BATT
MOORE | interred in Baltimore | R.I.P.

Photo No.39
In loving memory of | a fond father and mother | ANDREW
O'BRIEN | (Rosscarbery) | died 27th April 1917, aged 86 years
| and his wife | MARGARET | died 5th July 1917, aged 76 years
| R.I.P. | erected by their fond sons

Photo No.40
In memory of | DANIEL O'BRIEN | Barley Hill. | who died 23
July 1964 | his wife MARY | died 23 April 1986 | R.I.P. |
O'BRIEN

Photo No.41
BRIDGET | O'DONOVAN | died 28. March 1969

Photo No.42
O'DONOVAN ROSSA | family tomb | DENIS O'DONOVAN | (O'DONOVAN
ROSSA'S father | buried .... | Rosscarbery

Photo No.43
left side:
in | loving memory | of | JAMES O'DONOVAN | formerly of
Burgatia | who died 20th March 1991 | and his loving wife |
NORA | who died 6th Jan. 2017 | rest in peace | O'DONOVAN
right side:
pray for the repose | of the souls of | THOMAS O'DONOVAN |
Burgatia. | his wife NORA | and their son PATRICK. | who died
19. July 1965. | his wife MARY | who died 23. Sept 2004. |
R.I.P. | O'DONOVAN

Photo No.44
In memory of | JOHN O'DONOVAN Cullane | who died 10 Feb 1955 |
his sister KATE | died 28 Nov. 1949 | | their uncle | THOMAS
O'REGAN Barlogue | died 24 April 1928 | R.I.P.

Photo No.45
In memory of | PATRICK O'DONOVAN | Carricfada | his wife MARY
| and the deceased | members of their | family | MARY GORMAN |
died 19. May 1973 | R.I.P. | O'DONOVAN

Photo No.46
In loving memory of | the O'DRISCOLL family | Girlough,
Ballineen | interred in this cemetery | JOHN died 1934 | his
wife CATHERINE died 1948 | also ANNIE died 1925 | and ANNIE
MAY | aged 8 days died 1947 | may they rest in peace

Photo No.47
ELLEN O'KEEFFE | Burgatia | died June 11, 1937 aged 61 | her
husband JOHN | died Dec. 14. 1945 aged 86 | their daughter |
MARGARET | died Nov 22 1979 aged 66 | R.I.P. | O'KEEFFE

Photo No.48
In | loving memory of | BRIDGET O'SULLIVAN | Upper Froe. |
died 2 Oct. 1962. | her husband MICHAEL D. | died 21 Aug.
1967.  their daughters | MARY O'CALLAGHAN | Benduff. | died 1
April 1988  MARGARET O'SULLIVAN | died 28. Sept 2000. | aged
81 yrs. | R.I.P.

Photo No.49
Main stone:
Erected | in loving | memory | of TIMOTHY | REGAN | Brulea |
died 11. of | October | 1923. aged | 78. years | his wife
ELLEN | who died 11. Nov 1929 | aged 85 years

Plaque below:
In loving memory of | PATRICK REGAN | Brulea | died 15. April
1964. aged 85 yrs, | his wife ELLEN | died 5. May 1981. aged
85 yrs | their son PADDY | died 13. Dec. 1979. aged 44 yrs |
R.I.P.

Photo No.50
In memory of | the | TOBIN | family | Carley Hills East |
R.I.P.

Photo No.51
center:
Treasured memories of
left stone:
My husband and dear father | ALLEN | died 24. March 1985. | my
dear son | and beloved brother | PADRAIG | died 2. May 1987,
aged 22 years | may they rest in peace | erected by | his wife
MARY and family
right stone:
Our beautiful & much loved | MAM & NAN | MARY WILSON |
Douglas, Cork. | & Cross St. Rosscarbery | Dec 11th 1928  —
April 16th 2008. | resting in Gods love | .. great peace.
bottom:
WILSON




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