TS-EMOG-0093

Record Date: 
25 May 2015
Graveyard: 
Emly
Exact wording of epitaph: 

HERE LIES THE BODY OF

 WILLIAM  SADLEIR  ESQ.

OF  SHRONEHILL,

WHO  DEPARTED THIS LIFE  

FEB  20TH 1790.

 MAY HE REST IN PEACE.

 

JOHANNA, WIFE OF

CLEMENT  SADLEIR  ESQ.

OF SHRONEHILL,

DIED 25TH  DECEMBER  1859,

AGED  82 YEARS.

 MAY SHE REST IN PEACE AMEN.

Memorial Type: 
Grave slab
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.462719972222
Longitude: 
-8.3515283333333
Number of people commemorated: 
3
People commemorated: 
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Sadleir
Date of death - day: 
20
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1790
Address: 
Shronehill
Name: 
Johanna
Surname: 
Sadleir
Date of birth - year: 
1777
Date of death - day: 
25
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1859
Age: 
82
Name: 
Clement
Surname: 
Sadleir
Address: 
Shronehill
Notes: 

NB. Sadleir / Sadlier.  Variation in the spelling of the surname. See memorial  0092.

NB. Shronehill  is  present day Shronell, Co. Tipperary, located on the main road between Lattin and Tipperary Town.

NB.  Top of an unrelated broken Celtic cross was placed on this grave slab at some stage by somebody or other.

NB.  Johanna  Sadleir / Sadlier was the sixth daughter of James Scully of Kilfeacle, Co. Tipperary.

She married Clement Sadleir / Sadlier in 1805. Their fourth son, John Sadleir / Sadlier, was the man responsible for the collapse of the Tipperary Bank in February 1856, due to his embezzlement of its funds.

He committed suicide on Hampstead Heath in London on the 17TH February 1856 by drinking prussic acid. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Highgate cemetery in London.