LI-OPLS-013

Record Date: 
18 September 2012
Graveyard: 
Old Pallas
Exact wording of epitaph: 

WILLIAM REAL
OF BALLINACLOUGH WHO DIED 7TH AUGUST 1894
AGED 32 YEARS
BY THE PEOPLE OF HIS NATIVE
COUNTY AIDED BY HIS ATHLETIC AND
PATRIOTIC FRIENDS THROUGHOUT IRELAND
AS AN ATHLETE HIS FAME WILL EVER HOLD
A DISTINGUISHED PLACE AMONGST
THE RECORD HOLDERS OF THE WORLD
A TRUE TYPE OF IRISH MANHOOD
HE WAS ESTEEMED BY HIS COUNTRYMEN
AT HOME AND ABROAD AND ABOVE ALL
HE LOVED AND LIVED FOR IRELAND
On Right Side of Cross:
HIS WORLDS RECORDS
SHOVING FROM THE
SHOULDER WITH -OLLOW
THE 28 LBS 25 FEET 4 INCH
KILKENNY 1889
THE 42 LLBS 28 FEET-INCH
LIMERICK 1884
THE 56 LLBS 24 FEET 3 INCHES
LIMERICK 1889

ALSO BURIED IN THIS PLOT
BARTHOLMEW O'BRIEN BALLINALOUGH
MARY O'BRIEN BALLINALOUGH
ANNIE RYAN NEE O'BRIEN
AND HER SON
PATRICK RYAN

Memorial Type: 
Celtic Cross
Grave location
County: 
Limerick
Latitude: 
52.545469722222
Longitude: 
-8.3587163888889
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Real
Date of death - day: 
7
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1894
Age: 
32
Address: 
Balliaclough