Cork - Doneraile Parish - Church Graveyard (2) *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Cork Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: C. Hunt & Gail Sexton DONERAILE PARISH - CHURCH GRAVEYARD (2) [From Major J. Grove White, 57th Regt.] It is more than pleasant to record the following account of the care bestowed on this burial-ground. We wish we could record other similar cases:- 'This churchyard is kept very neat, through the exertions of Mr. David Roche, of Doneraile, churchwarden. It is a credit to the parish. I have seen no churchyard in Ireland better cared for.' - J.G.W., Major 'The following appear from the Parish Registers to have been buried in the churchyard, but the tombstones to their memory have disappeared':- "JOHN WHITE, Esq., of Kilbyrne (Kilburn), near Doneraile, buried 24 May, 1754." _______________ "ANNE WHITE (FOWLEE), wife of above, died 12 June, 1745." _______________ "JOHN WHITE, 2nd child of above, buried 26 July, 1741, aged 14 years." _______________ "JAMES WHITE, Esq., of Kilbyrne, buried 16 November, 1780, aged 52." _______________ "GROVE WHITE, Esq., of Kingstown, near Doneraile, died 1768, aged 38 years." ________________ 'In his will he desired to be buried in the family burial-place. There is now (1894) no sign of his old family site.' ________________ "SARAH, widow of WILLIAM WHITE, Esq., of (? Hogstown), Co. Cork, buried 24 December, 1811, aged 80 years." _________________ "WILLIAM, infant son of WILLIAM and SARAH WHITE, buried 20 February, 177 ." ___________________ "DR. JOHN GROVE WHITE, of Charleville, Co. Cork, buried April, 1801." SOURCE: Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 1894. FHL# 1279252