ERECTED
BY
WILLIAM MITCHELL
OF BALLYLOOBY ,
IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS FATHER
MATTHEW MITCHELL ,
WHO DIED NOV 27TH 1900,
AGED 75 YEARS.
ALSO OF
WILLIAM MITCHELL ,
DIED SEPT 28TH 1940.
JOHN GANNON
DIED APRIL 20 1981, AGED 72 YRS.
R.I.P.
A kerbed Celtic cross.
NB. The William Mitchell referred to twice is the same person.
Matthew Mitchell was born in Ballylooby, Duntryleague, Galbally parish, Co. Limerick in April 1813. Parents were Matthew Mitchell & Judith Allen.
He married Mary Power in Pallasgreen / Templebredon parish on the 26-2-1854.
Children born to them were Matthew 1855, William 1856-1940, Michael 1858, Judith 1860, Bridget 1862, Margaret 1864 and Annie 1870.
Annie Mitchell , born 1870 , married John Gannon in St. Augustine’s Church in Limerick on the 09-4-1907.
Her husband, a native of Castleroe, Co. Kildare had a draper’s shop in Church St. Tipperary Town.
Their son, John Joseph Gannon (1909-1981) was born there on the 06-3-1909 and is the person interred at this memorial .