CO-SMCY-0848

Record Date: 
9 August 2013
Graveyard: 
Collegiate Church of Saint Mary
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Sacred to the memory of William Drury, son of Jasper Drury of Youghal. He was accidentally killed by a fall from the Belle Alp in Switzerland on the eleventh day of August 1874 aged 44 years. His fellow townsmen and friends have erected this monument as a testimony to his useful and unselfish public life, as well as to those personal virtues which endeared him to a large circle of friends, who deplore his untimely end, not only as a private loss but as a public calamity.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction and to keep himself unspoiled from the world. James c 1v.xxv11.

Memorial Type: 
Altar tomb
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.955073429952
Longitude: 
-7.8534811699989
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Drury
Date of death - day: 
11
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1874
Age: 
44
Name: 
Jasper
Surname: 
Drury
Address: 
Youghal
Relationship with first person: 
Father