CO-KLBL-0053

Record Date: 
21 May 2012
Graveyard: 
Ballinakill
Exact wording of epitaph: 

JOHN O LYONS ERECTED
THIS STONE IN MEMORY OF
HIS SON CORNELus O LYONS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 6TH
1781 AGED 24 YEARS LORD
HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL AMEN
LATERED OF LATE HERE LIES UNDER
A MAN WHOSE FAME DID MERE WONDER
NO ADMIRATION OF Ye BELLS DID RING
THIS MAN PRAISE AND VALIANCE AND ACTIONS SING
THE TOMMBs & GRAVES HAS ECHOED LOUD
WHEN THIS BRAVE HERO APPROACHED
HIS NATIVE GROUND

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
52.337955
Longitude: 
-8.8345694444444
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
R Purcell
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
John
Surname: 
O Lyons
Name: 
Cornelius
Surname: 
O Lyons
Date of death - day: 
6
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1781
Age: 
24
Relationship with first person: 
Son