RO-KLBG-0150

Record Date: 
14 May 2016
Graveyard: 
Kilbegley
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Older Headstone

O LORD HAVE MERCY OF THE SOUL 

OF JAMES SHEA WHO DEPD THIS

LIFE THE 6 OF NOV 1853 AGED 71 YRS

ALSO HIS WIFE MARY SHEA WHO

DEPD THIS LIFE THE 30 OF OCTOBER 

1847 AGED 65 YEARS ALSO MARY 

SHEA WHO DEPD THIS LIFE THE 

29TH OF OCTOBER 1852 AGED 38 YEARS

ERECTED BY THEIR SON KERAN SHEA

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 Black Marble Headstone

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

JOHN SHEA

COURNAVEIGH

DIED 2 - JUNE 1924

HIS WIFE ELIZABETH

DIED 25- NOV 1967

THEIR DAUGHTER

BRIDGET

DIED 14 - JUNE 1973

THEIR SON WILLIAM

DIED 24 - JUNE 1987

MICHAEL SHEA

DIED 15 TH MAY 1998

AGED 88 YRS

R.I.P. 

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.321699444444
Longitude: 
-8.1431344444444
Additional details
Erected by: 
Headstone one erected by their son Kerin Shea.
Number of people commemorated: 
9
People commemorated: 
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
6
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1853
Age: 
71
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
30
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1847
Age: 
65
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
29
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1852
Age: 
38
Address: 
Cornaveigh
Name: 
Kieran
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
29
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1896
Age: 
75
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1924
Relationship with first person: 
grandson
Name: 
Elizabeth
Surname: 
Shea (nee Kenny)
Date of death - day: 
14
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1973
Relationship with first person: 
Wife of John Shea
Name: 
Bridget
Surname: 
Shea
Date of birth - day: 
14
Date of birth - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1973
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter of John and Elizabeth Shea
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
24
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1987
Relationship with first person: 
Son of John and Elizabeth Shea
Name: 
Michael
Surname: 
Shea
Date of death - day: 
15
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1998
Age: 
88
Relationship with first person: 
Son of John and Elizabeth Shea
Notes: 

The address for this family is Cornaveagh/Cournaveigh, Parish of Moore.

Headstone 1: Kieran Shea died 29th October 1896 age 75 years (Source Civil Death Record). He was the son of James (1782-1853) & Mary (1782-1847) O'Shea.

His sister Mary (1817-1852) is also named on headstone. She was a spinister.

Kieran Shea was widowed at time of death so his wife Catherine (nee Claffey from Kilbegley towards Gurth)predeceased him.

Both their names were on the headstone but are not visible today according to a relative as it was restored and their names got interred in the ground.

Headstone 2: John Shea was the son of Kieran & Catherine Shea . He married Elizabeth Kenny, Clonburren (born 1878) in January 1898. (Source: Civil Records)

Census 1901:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Cloonburren/C...

Census 1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Cloonburren/C...