LI-ARDP-0210

Record Date: 
8 November 2012
Graveyard: 
Exact wording of epitaph: 

ERECTED BY

MRS MARY LEAHY

BALLINE

IN MEMORY OF HER LOVING DAUGHTER

BRIDGET PURCELL

WHO DIED DEC 27 1887 AGED 27

R.I.P.

PATRICK LEAHY

DIED 16TH AUG 1942

MARY TAYLOR (NEE LEAHY)

DIED 10TH APRIL  1941

 

 

Memorial Type: 
Celtic Cross
Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
52.338575
Longitude: 
-8.5318063888889
Number of people commemorated: 
4
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Mrs Mary
Surname: 
Leahy (née McGrath)
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1897
Address: 
Balline
Name: 
Bridget
Surname: 
Purcell (née Leahy)
Date of birth - day: 
22
Date of birth - month: 
May
Date of birth - year: 
1858
Date of death - day: 
27
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1887
Age: 
27
Address: 
Knocklary, Kilfinane
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Patrick
Surname: 
Leahy
Date of birth - month: 
April
Date of birth - year: 
1864
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1942
Age: 
78
Address: 
Balline
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Taylor (née Leahy)
Date of birth - day: 
24
Date of birth - month: 
December
Date of birth - year: 
1907
Date of death - day: 
10
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1941
Age: 
33
Relationship with first person: 
Grand-daughter
Notes: 

Mary Leahy (née McGrath) (c.1823-1897), possibly from Elton, was married to Patrick Leahy (c.1822-1884) of Balline.  Their daughter Bridget Purcell (née Leahy) (1858-1887), of Balline, married James Purcell (c.1861-1935), of Glenbrohane, in 1887.  Bridget died following the death of her daughter Elizabeth Purcell (1887-1962). Patrick Leahy (1864-1942), Bridget Purcell's brother, married Julia O'Donnell (1885-?), of Lyre, Galbally, in 1907.  Their daughter Catherine Mary Taylor (née Leahy) (1907-1941), commemorated here, married Joseph Taylor (1891-1965), of Monemore, Emly, in 1936.  Mary died following the birth of her son Michael Taylor, who also died several days later.