KK-KLMR-041

Record Date: 
11 December 2012
Graveyard: 
Kilmacar
Exact wording of epitaph: 

ERECTED BY MICHAEL DOWNEY IN MEMORY
OF HIS BELOVED FATHER THOs DOWNEY
WHO DEPt THIS LIFE 21st MARCH 1783
AGED 73YRS.ALSO HIS WIFE JUDITH
ALIAS CULLANAN WHO DEPt THIS LIFE
8th June 1804 aged 77yrs
NICHOLAS DOWNEY DIED Feb 5th 1833 aged 86
ALSO ELLIN DOWNEY DIED JUNE 28th 1835

Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Latitude: 
52.769046388889
Longitude: 
-7.2727230555556
Number of people commemorated: 
4
People commemorated: 
Name: 
THOMAS
Surname: 
DOWNEY
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1783
Age: 
73
Name: 
JUDITH
Surname: 
DOWNEY (NEE CULLANAN)
Date of death - day: 
8
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1804
Age: 
77
Name: 
NICHOLAS
Surname: 
DOWNEY
Date of death - day: 
5
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1833
Age: 
86
Name: 
ELLIN
Surname: 
DOWNEY
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1835
Notes: 

Recorded in THe Kilmacar Burial Ledger
Mrs Mary Downey, aged 80, Little Hills. died  2/2/1950  Married,  Farmer.
Julia Downey, aged, 80 Tinnalintin died 14-4-1964, Single,
Thomas  Downey, aged 89, Little Hills, died  23-12-1956,, Married, Farmer.
The latter is the Tommy Downey who fostered Jimmy Duggan, interred in Kilmacar grave 124
It was also this house that Mrs Ayres came to when she sold Maudlin Stores
Mary was a Rowe and her mother was a Comerford, she was a cousin of Mrs Ayres, nee Comerford, Coolbaun. Jimmy Kenny,  wife a Comerford, had a pub in Barrack St, Castlecomer,  His 2 daughters were Alice Campion, Conahy and Joan Bollard, Kieran St, Kilkenny. Joan's son Jim inherited Kenny,s Pub
Comerford's Coolbaun, Maudlin Stores & Bollards Pub, Kieran St.