ME-ARCH-0341

Record Date: 
28 October 2021
Graveyard: 
Ardcath
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN MEMORY

OF

PATRICK SHALVEY.

IRISHTOWN.

DIED 20TH NOVR 1885. AGED 70 YRS.

ALSO OF HIS WIFE ALICE

DIED 16TH SEPTR 1855.

AND OF THEIR CHILDREN

CATHERINE, JANE & ELLEN

WHO DIED YOUNG.

R. I. P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Meath
Latitude: 
53.607225
Longitude: 
-6.3937555555556
Additional details
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
5
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Patrick
Surname: 
Shalvey
Date of death - day: 
20
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1885
Age: 
70
Address: 
Irishtown
Name: 
Alice (nee Kelly)
Surname: 
Shalvey
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
1855
Address: 
Irishtown
Relationship with first person: 
WIFE
Name: 
CATHERINE
Surname: 
Shalvey
Address: 
Irishtown
Relationship with first person: 
DAUGHTER
Name: 
Jane
Surname: 
Shalvey
Address: 
Irishtown
Relationship with first person: 
DAUGHTER
Name: 
Ellen
Surname: 
Shalvey
Address: 
Irishtown
Relationship with first person: 
DAUGHTER
Notes: 

The attached info on Thomas Shalvey in 1884 indicated he was not only buried in Ardcath but exhumed for a coroners report. There is no mention of him anywhere in the graveyard. This grave is the only common link. One would assume such a tragic end would have warranted a headstone. (Assuming this may be his resting place??) Where would James Shalvey, his brother who worked with him on potato picking on the day Thomas took sick to his bed and died?