LA-DYEN-0020

Record Date: 
29 October 2013
Graveyard: 
Dysart-Enos
Exact wording of epitaph: 

HERE LIETH THE BODY

OF EDWARD DEMPSEY

WHO DEPD HIS LIFE

AUGUST THE 4 1776

AGED  YEARS THE

LORD HAVE MERCY ON

HIS SOUL AMEN

AND ALSO HIS SON JAMES DE

EMPSY WHO DEPARTEDTHIS

 LIFE MAY THE 8TH1787 AGE

 37 YEARSTHE LORD HAVE M

ERCY ON HIS SOUL AMEN

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Laois
Latitude: 
53.016484722222
Longitude: 
-7.2327597222222
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
EDWARD
Surname: 
DEMPSEY
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1776
Name: 
JAMES
Surname: 
DEMPSEY
Date of death - day: 
8
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1787
Age: 
37
Notes: 

HEADSTONE SUNBURST AROUND IHS

This memorial is No. 145 in the survey published by Dysart-Enos conservation group in 2005 and is illustrated on an information board at the site