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TN-CATE-0177
Record Date:
6 August 2013
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
FRONT PANEL
JACOBUS O'CARROLL
SACERDOS
COMIS HUMILIS
BENEVOLUS IN
DOMINO QUIEVIT
4 APRILIS 1872
ANNOS HABENS 48
R.I.P.
IN SIGNUM AMORIS
POSUIT
SACERDOS COGNATUS
REAR PANEL
SACERDOS
DOCTUS PIUS
DULCIS MEMORIAE
THOMAS O'CARROLL
PAROCHUS
DE CLONOULTY
ET ROSSMORE
NATUS IN tEMPLEMORE
5 APRILIS 1810
MORTUUS IN THURLES
4 JANUARII 1865
HIC EXPECTAT
RESURRECTIONEM
CARNIS
IN DEI DOMINI
R.I.P. AMICUS SCRIPSIT
IN PIGNUS AMICATIAE
Memorial Type:
Celtic Cross
Number of people commemorated:
2
People commemorated:
Title:
REVEREND
Name:
JACOBUS
Surname:
O'CARROLL
Date of death - day:
4
Date of death - month:
April
Date of death - year:
1872
Age:
48
Title:
REVEREND
Name:
THOMAS
Surname:
O'CARROLL
Date of birth - day:
5
Date of birth - month:
April
Date of birth - year:
1810
Date of death - day:
4
Date of death - month:
January
Date of death - year:
1865
Address:
CLONOULTY ROSSMORE
Relationship with first person:
BROTHER
Notes:
Translation of the headstone inscription
THOMAS O'CARROLL
A LEARNED PIOUS
PRIEST
OF SWEET MEMORY
PARISH PRIEST
OF CLONOULTY
AND ROSSMORE
BORN IN TEMPLEMORE
5 APRIL 1810
DIED IN THURLES
4 JANUARY 1865
HERE AWAITS
THE RESURRECTION
OF THE BODY
IN THE DAY OF THE LORD
R.I.P.
A FRIEND WROTE THIS
AS A TOKEN OF FRIENDSHIP
JAMES O'CARROLL
A PRIEST
COURTEOUS HUMBLE
AND BENEVOLENT
FELL ASLEEP IN THE LORD
4 APRIL 1872
AGED 48 YEARS
R.I.P.
AS A SIGN OF LOVE
HIS PRIEST RELATIVE
PLACED THIS
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
The O'Carroll priests were the sons of James O'Carroll (a smith) and Judith, nee Mackey. Fr. Thomas was a man of considerable intellectual ability, with a taste for enquiry into diocesan lore, history and antiquarian. He wrote a short history of Holycross and a collection of notes on clergy of the diocese. He was a great traveller, visited Rome, Tyre, Istanbul, The Holy Land and many European countries. In the summer before his death he set off on pilgrimage to Compostella, riding through Spain on mules. Illness overcame him and he had to return home.
Fr. James was a C.C. in Clonoulty Rossmore, while his brother Fr. Thomas was P.P. He suffered from chronic bronchitis which brought about his early death.
The brothers are fondly remembered for 'The O'Carroll Diaries'. Fr. Thomas's diary of 1846, was written while C.C. of Anacarty Donohill. The diary of Fr. James 1862 - 1864 was written while he was C.C. Clonoulty. Both diaries give valuable accounts of social history for those years and also include pen pictures of diocesan priests of that era. Fr. James's reminiscences of his boyhood years in Templemore give a colourful account of life in the town of his birth.
