Cemetery: Thurles Churchyard

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File contributed by: Peg Gingras

THURLES CHURCHYARD
    (from Rev. St. John Seymore, b.d.)

'The following collection of early eighteenth century 
inscriptions Is to be found in the graveyard which surrounds 
the Protestant Church of the town. It is a comparatively 
modern building, but evidently stands on the site of a much 
older one. This parish was impropriate in the Abby of Owney, 
County Limerick. In 1292, ABBOT HUGH  mortgaged this church 
to Italian merchants. After the dissolution of the 
monasteries it was handed over to WALTER Ap HOWELL, and 
after him, to PIERCE WALSH  and his descendents.  All the 
inscription below are incised, and many of them are as fresh 
as the day they were cut.'

Here Lyeth ye Body | of ANNE NEALE | Alias COLLUM
Who Dyed April ye 30th 1784 aged 33 years | also ye 
Body of ANNE PETTY.
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HIC JACET | ELLENA UXOR JACOBI BOURK | QUE OBYT 21
DIE MAII | 1722  [Rest Buried]
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Here Lyeth ye Body | of MARY McCORMICK | alias BUTLER
Who De | parted This Life ye 21 of | June 1743 in ye 38
Yer | of her age also her | Husband MCCORMICK.
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HIC JACET | MARIE UXOR JACOBI AYL | WARD QUAE OBIT |
29 DIE JUNI 1741.

Over "Marie"occurs in small letters the name DALTON |
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Here lyes the Bo | dy of ELENOR Mc | CARTHY Alies
CORCORAN | Who Departed this  life | March the 1st 1762 |
Aged 29  [Rest Buried]
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Here Lyeth The | Body of JOHN | SHEE who De | parted 
This life 7br | The 7th 1743 | Aged 5 years.
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Here Lyeth The Body | of JOHN PHERON who | Dyed
June ye 1st 1743 | aged [Rest Buried]
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Here lyeth ye body PETER | WALL who died June
The | 17,1721 CATHERINE WALL | alias CAHIL his wife.
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Here Lyeth ye Body of | DANIEL CAREY who | Departed
this life Jany. | ye 8th an domni 1736 in | ye 8th year of
his age also | ye body of JOs CAREY.
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[Here lieth the] Body |[Father] MICH'L | RIAN [	]
Yrs Parish | Priest of Thurles |who dpd this life |
Nov ye 4th 17[??] Aged 71 yr Requiescat in Pace |

'Almost illegible'
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Here Lyeth | Ye Body of ANNA | BUTLER who died | July
7th 1742 eaged | 5 years.
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Here Lyeth The | Body of JOHN CONN | ELL who dyed
April | the 5th 1724.
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Here Lyeth The | Body of BRIDGET BU | TLER who died
Ju | ne The 20th 1740 | aged 17 years.

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Here Lyeth | The Body of | NATT. MORLEY | who died
August | 1755 and CATHERINE [MO]RLEY Died Au[gust]
The 11 [Rest Broken.]
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Here Lyeth ye Body | of PEIRCE TRACEY who | Departed
this life | March ye 25 an. domni | 1737 in ye 40th year
of | his age.
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Here lyeth the body of | FELIX MURPHY who De
parted this life June | ye 6 an. Donni 1726 in y | 20
Year of his Age.
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Here Lyeth ye Body | of PHILIP RYAN who | Deced Feb 
ye 2nd 1728 | Aged 80 years
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Here lyeth the body of | CATHERINE WHITE ali | as
HICKEY who [died?] ye 14th 1753 Aged 19 years.
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MARY PAINE Departed | This Life 9br.ye 3rd | 1730 aged
3 years | Also MARY LOGGAN | alias | PAINE Who Died 7br.
ye 29th | 1742 Aged 22 years.
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Here Lyeth | the body of | MOSESS PAIN | who dyed | May
The 4th 1755.
'The 3 s's in "Mosess" are all reversed.'


SOURCE:
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the 
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland.  Vol VII, FHL# 1279254