Cemetery: Powerstown Churchyard, Roscrea Churchyard
Memorials & Templetuohy Parish Rectors
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POWERSTOWN CHURCHYARD, ROSCREA CHURCHYARD MEMORIALS &
TEMPLETUOHY PARISH RECTORS
POWERSTOWN CHURCHYARD (NEAR CLONMEL).
[From J. Grene-Barry, Esq., Limerick, 1903.]
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS.
ELIZA GRENE WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE AT POSERSTOWN FEBRUARY 9TH
1820 IN THE 54TH YEAR OF HER AGE
ALSO THE REMAINS OF THE LATE
DR GRENE WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE 11th JANUARY 1828 AGED 72
MRS MARY POWER WHO DIED
THE 16th JUNE 1854 DAUGHTER
OF THE ABOVE GEORGE AND ELIZA
GRENE
Note.---The above Dr. Grene was a nephew of John and
James Grene, whose tombs are in Killandriff Church, and
grandnephew of John Grene, ob. 1760 ; the inscription on
whose tomb in Relickmurry Church, Thomastown, appeared on
p. 108, Vol. V.
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ROSCREA CHURCHYARD.
[From Lord Walter FitzGerald.]
'The magnificent west end of the ancient Church of St.
Cronan, containing grand Hibernc-Romaesque carving, now
serves as a gateway into the churchyard ; the path from
which leads to the Protestant church, built in 1812 in place
of the ancient one above mentioned, of which only the west
end is now standing.
'The burial-ground contains no tombs of any
antiquity or interest ; a few of the oldest existing
inscriptions are given below, and are all, with one
exception, copied from stones lying on the right of the path
leading from the ancient gateway to the church.
'Flat slab lying on the path' :---
THIS STONE AND BURIAL
PLACE BELONGETH TO
NATHANIELL SMITH OF
CORBALLY GENT. AND HIS
POSTERITY
AND UNDERNEATH LYETH
THE BODY OF THE SAID
NATHANIELL WHO DYED
ON THE 10 DAY OF APRIL
1729 IN THE 68 YEAR
OF HIS AGE.
'Sandstone headstone, faint inscription' : ---
HERE LIETH YE | BODY OF WEARY | QVEVER WHO | DEPARTED
THIS LIFE | JU : YR 1.1717 | AGED 84 YEARS.
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'Flat slab, faint inscription' :---
Here lieth the Body of | Henry BRIERLY who departd |
this Life May 29, 1747 & in | the 70 year of his age.
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'Flat slab' :---
I H S
HERE LYETH YE | BODY OF JOHN | MARA WHO DE | PARTED
Ye LIFE | Ye 23 DAY OF | JANUARY 1766.
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'On a headstone close to St. Cronan's Cross' :---
Richard Comi
ns his buriall
place here lieth 3
of his children 1727
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'On a fractured slab near the path' :---
I H S
Here lieth the Body of Tho | mas Mara who departed |
this life December 21. 1768 | in the 42 year of his age.
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'On the left of the path is a fracture | flat slab,
bearing the following inscription' :---
Here lyes the Body of | Mrs Mary Evans of Ros | crea
who departed this | life the 23 day of Augt | 1776 Aged 87
years Ten feet northward | is the burial-place of her |
Family.
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'On a tablet over the porch of the present modern
church is inscribed' :---
This Church Built A.D. 1812
The R' Honble and R' Revd Lord
Robt Tottenham, Bishop of Killaloe
The Revd Thomas L'Estrange, Rector,
John Birch, ) Church
Thomas Smallman, (
In' Franck, Esqr ) wardens
Patten Smith, Esqr, Contractor
Mr James Shaene, Architect.
'At the boundary wall of the churchyard, adjacent to
the ancient church remains, are set up portions of a Celtic
high cross ; considerable portions of the head and shaft are
missing, and, to a certain extent, have been judiciously
replaced with modern substi- tutes. Facing the street, is a
representation of the Crucifixion; and on the opposite side
of the head, is a figure of an ecclesiastic, supposed to
represent the patron saint of the locality---St. Cronan
---whose festival falls on the 28th April.
'Across the public road, greatly disfigured by
Whelan's saw- mill buildings, stands a well-built Round
Tower, which, however, wants the upper storeys. When the
public road was laid out, which divides this tower from it's
accompanying church and burial- ground, it showed a great
want of taste and respect to so encroach on this ancient
cemetery.'
TOUREEN. ST. PEAKAUN'S CHURCH RUINS. PARISH OF KELLARDRY
[From G. N. Smith, Esq., of Duneske, Caher.]
'In 1894, Mr. Smith took rubbings of inscriptions
on two little cross-inscribed slabs, which are to be found
at the ruins of St. Peakaun's Church ; from his rubbings,
the illustrations on opposite page have been made. These
church ruins, and St. Peakaun's Blessed Well, are situated
on both sides of the public road in the townland of Toureen
and parish of Killardry, three miles to the north-west of
the town of Caher.
'The rubbing marked A was taken from the fragment of a
slab, and measures 18 inches in length and 7 inches in
breadth; it lies in St. Peakaun's Church.
'That marked B measures about 10 inches both ways, and
is lying loose at what Mr. Smith calls "St. Peakaun's Cell,"
on the opposite side of the road.
'The inscriptions are in Irish and incomplete; they have
not yet been properly deciphered. They appear in Petrie's
"Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language," a work
edited by Miss Margaret Stokes, from drawings made many
years ago by George Du Noyer; but the drawings and the
rubbings here shown do not agree. 'According to the County
Tipperary Ordnance Survey Letters, the place where St.
Peakaun's Church ruins are situated was called "Clonard
Mobecoge." The ruins, which are now in a sadly neglected and
ruinous state, were called by the peasantry " Tampu-
leen-Peakaun" ; this St. Peakaun (or Beccaun) was venerated
on the 26th May, but, strange to say, up to recent times,
the 1st August was the day on which patterns took place at
the Blessed Well."
W. FitzG.
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TEMPLETUOHY PARISH.
Rectors.
Rev. Peyton Lehunt ... ... ... Dec. 3lst, 1789.
Rev. Richard Chaloner ... ... Dec. 20th, 1740.
Rev. Alexander McDonnell ... ... July 24th, 1741.
Rev. Patrick Grace ... ... ... Nov. 23rd, 1750.
Rev. William Watts ... ... ... March 7th, 1767.
Rev. Patrick Hare ... ... ... Aug. 18th, 1781.
Rev. Arthur Lord ... ... ... Dec. 16th, 1816
Rev. George Forster ... ... June 18th, 1828
Rev. Mongo N. Thompson ... ... Dec. 5th, 1832
Rev. Daniel Foley, D.D. ... ... Dec. 6th, 1852
Rev. Patrick Foley, A.B. (first Rectory of the Union of
Templetuohy and Moyne) ... Nov. 11th, 1874
Rev. T.L. O'Flaherty was moved to Clonoulty in the spring of
the year 1893. He was the last rector of the Union of
Temple- tuohy and Moyne, which Union was joined to
Templemore in 1893.
SOURCE:
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland: vol. vi - FHL # 1279285