Cemetery: Ballnahaglish Churchyard & Dingle Churchyard

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CEMETERY: BALLNAHAGLISH CHURCHYARD & DINGLE CHURCHYARD

Ballnahaglish Churchyard
[From the "Kerry Magazine," vol. iii, p. 175]
Pg. 86

'On a small mural slab in the chancel of this church'
HEARE LIES THE BODY OF
LEVT WM HILLIARD
HO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 9TH OF APRIL 1707
AND THE BODY OF HIS WIFE
ELIZTH WHO DIED ON THE 28TH MAY 1709
                    W. FITSG.
          _______

Dingle Churchyard

'In the first volume of "The Journal" and at page 401, the
Inscription on Sir Stephen Rice's tombstone, copied from
Smith's "History of Kerry," is given.  In June of 1903, the
Rev. Canon Courtenay Moore sent in a copy of the
inscription, which is given below, as it differs somewhat
from the one already printed.  It appears to be intended
to be read as a rhyming verse, thus':-
STEPHEN RICE, ESQUIRE, LIES HERE
A HAPPY LIFE FOR FOUR SCORE YEARE
FULL VIRTUOUSLY HE SPENTE.
HIS LOYAL WIFE HELENA TRANTE,
WHO DIED FIVE YEARES BEFORE.
LIES HERE ALSO. LORD JESUS GRANT
THEM LIFE FOR EVERMORE
                    MDCXXII

'According to Burke's "Landed Gentry," there was an
Edward Rice seated at Dingle, temp.  Henry VIII.  By his
wife Anne, daughter of John Wall, he had a son, Robert
Rice, of Dingle, who married Julia, daughter of Sir James
Whyte, Knt., of Cashel, in County Tipperary, and was the
father of Stephen Rice named in the above inscription.
'Stephen Rice of Dingle, was M.P. for the County Kerry in
1613, and died, according to Burke, on the 31st March
1623(?).  His wife Helena, was a daughter of Thomas
Trant, of Cahir-Trant, in County Kerry.  By her he had two
sons:-

1.James Rice, M.P. for Dingle in 1635, from whom was
decended Thomas Spring-Rice, of Mount-Trenchard,
County Limerick, created Lord Monteagle in 1839.  James
Rice died on the 24th February 1636.

2.Dominick Rice, who married Alice, daughter of James
Hussey, Baron of Galtrim, and had issue.

'From this elder son I believe the Rices of Mount Rice,
near Lacks(?)gh, in the County Kildare, were descended.
They are now extinct.  Vide "The Journal," vol. ii, p. 141,
and Archdall's "Lodge," vol. iii, p. 204.'
          W. FITZG.

Source:
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland Vol. 6, 1904. (FHL #
0258795)