LA-CLPK-0032

Record Date: 
9 March 2013
Graveyard: 
Clopook
Exact wording of epitaph: 

INSCRIPTION WEST END  

HERE LYETH YE. BODY OF

BRIDGET COMMERFORD

WHO DEPD. THIS LIFE MARCH

YE. 6TH. 1793 AGD. 47 YRS.

INSCRIPTION EAST END

IHS

HERE LYETH THE BOBY OF YE.

REVD. WILLM. COMMER

FORD WHO DEPD. THIS LIFE

APRIL YE. 19TH. 1794 AGD. 24 YRS

LORD HAVE MERCY ON THEIR

SOULS

Memorial Type: 
Ledger Slab
Grave location
County: 
Laois
Latitude: 
52.962105
Longitude: 
-7.1345913888889
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
BRIDGET
Surname: 
COMMERFORD
Date of death - day: 
6
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1793
Age: 
43
Title: 
REVERAND
Name: 
WILLIAM
Surname: 
COMMERFORD
Date of death - day: 
19
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1794
Age: 
24
Notes: 

THIS LEDGER HAS AN INSCRIPTION AT BOTH ENDS. THE REVEREND WILLIAM (AS IS USUAL WITH PRIESTS) WAS BURIED WITH HIS BACK TO THE RISING SUN FACING THE PEOPLE AND BRIDGET WAS BURIED FACING THE RISING SUN.