Cemetery: Killerrig Churchyard

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Contributed by C.Hunt

CEMETERY: KILLERRIG CHURCHYARD
  [From Lord Walter FitzGerald.]

'This is a small burial-ground, situated by the road-side,
3½ miles to the north-west of Tullow.  All that remains of
the old church is a portion of the east gable-end,
containing a single-light window of cut granite, with an
ogee
head.

'A large walled-in enclosure has been built by the Humfrey
family, of Dublin, on the foundations of the church ;
inside, in the west wall, there are projecting two slabs of
cut-stone work, a sill and a lintel, which supported a
large tablet, now dislodged and lying in a fractured state
on the ground : it bears the following inscription' :-

    This Burial Place
    was enclosed by
    JOHN HUMFREY OF DUBLIN ESQer.
    for the use of his family
    in the year of Our Lord 1808.
    The Remains of an amiable beloved wife, and five of
    their children
    are here interred, to whom he hopes
    to be united in happiness.

'In the Protestant Church at Tullow there is a monument to
the memory of a John Humfrey, of Killerrig  (ob. 1827), and
his wife, Anne Mary (ob. 1811), daughter of Elias Caulfield-
Best, of Bestfield (see the Journal, vol. ii, p.
439).'

"on a headstone' :-

  Here Lyeth ye Body | of Timothy Donovan | Aged 63
  Also his | wife catherin Bryan | aged 56 | who departed
  this | Life in the year of | 1765

    [Remainder below the ground.]

'Near the west wall of the churchyard there is a socketed
granite stone, apparently the base of an old cross.'

'On the sourth side lies a large fractured slab, bearing
this inscription, which
is hard to decipher' :-

     HERE INTERRED THE BODY OF
     St IOHN BREWSTER IANUARY 1ST 1729
     AGED 80 YEARS
     & MARY HIS DAUGHTER OCTOBR 21st 1770
     AGED -0 YEARS.

 'It is just possible that the "St" in the second line is a
 "Sr."  There are  tombstones to the familes of Brewster of
 the County Wicklow (1813). and  Brewster of Tullow (1754),
 in the Protestant churyard at Tullow (see the
 Journal, vol. ii. pp.441 and 446).


 'On a small fragment of a limestone slab, now placed on a
 heap of stones, there  is inscribed':-

                  Killer[rig]
                 [Benja]min Bunbu[ry]


'The remainder of this headstone has quite disappeared.  The
Benjamin Bunbury here named was a descendant of the Benjamin
Bunbury of Killerrig, who died on the 3rd April, 1707. and
whose tomb-slab exists in St. Mary's churchyard, Carlow.
This latter Benjamin was the son of Thomas, youngest son of
Sir Henry Benjamin Bunbury, Knight, of Stanney in Cheshire.'
   'Benjamin Bunbury, of Killerrig, who died in 1707, had
   five sons, viz. :-
        1. Joseph, of Jobstown, Co. Carlow.
        2. Benjamin, of Killerrig, Co. Carlow.
        3. Thomas, of Cloghna, Co. Carlow.
        4. William, of Lisnevagh and Moyle, Co. Carlow.
        5. Michael, of Kilfeacle, Co. Tipperary.

'The above inscriptions also appear, incorrectly copied, in
vol. iv, pp. 189 and 190 of the Journal."

Source:
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland  Vol. IX  (FHL # 1279285)