CO-SMCY-0260

Record Date: 
14 May 2013
Graveyard: 
Collegiate Church of Saint Mary
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here lyes inter’d...n’d to clay...He liv’d to d...live for aye. Thomas S...May...joyed...He cared

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.954893055556
Longitude: 
-7.85397
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Smyth
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1669
Notes: 

Described in Dineley’s  "Observations of a voyage" as  “ Near the font at the West end of the middle isle of this church is read this inscription upon the tombstone of a dyer by trade.: Here lyes interr’d, his body turn’d to clay, He lived to dye, he dyed to live for aye. Thomas Smyth died May  XXI MDCIXIX. He lov’d and liv’d, courteous to all & kinde, He joy'd much in a contented minde; He cared not for things here below, But still sayd My Redeemer lives I know".