CO-CTCH-0248

Record Date: 
25 September 2013
Graveyard: 
Christ Church Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

AMY OLIVER

BELOVED WIFE OF

RICHARD THOMAS BEAMISH

HARE HILL, BANDON

BORN JUNE 22ND 1860

DIED JUNE 28TH 1924

UNTIL THE DAY BREAK

AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY    Cant ii. 17

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747425
Longitude: 
-8.7372163888889
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Amy Oliver
Surname: 
BEAMISH
Date of birth - day: 
22
Date of birth - month: 
June
Date of birth - year: 
1860
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1924
Name: 
Richard Thomas
Surname: 
BEAMISH
Relationship with first person: 
husband
Notes: 

May Oliver's husband, Richard Thomas Beamish, known as Dickie, died on 26th September 1939 at Hare Hill, Bandon.

He married Amy Oliver Smithwick, Summerhill, Bandon on 23rd January 1889 at Christ Church, Kilbrogan.  They had no issue and Hare Hill was sold after his death in 1939 to Paddy Canniffe of Cappa, Bandon.

Richard Thomas Beamish was the last Beamish Master of the Carbery Hounds.

His home at Hare Hill was burnt on 13th April 1923 at the end of the Irish Civil War.  It was rebuilt about 1925-1926 by Michael Walsh, Gaggin