The 170 year old man from Doneraile

Malakey McAuliffe lived to the ripe old age of 170 - or maybe an all too short 17 years. Or was he 70?

His wife, Mary, is also commemorated on this headstone and the lettercarver got WIFE wrong and it had to be fixed.So a likely blunder with an age (a misheard epitaph) and a blunder with the simple spelling of wife tells us these stonecarvers had yet to learn the full skills of the trade. However, as Mary died at the age of 60 it seems reasonable that Malakey was 70 rather than 17.