RO-KLBG-0169

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

JOHN CLAFFEY

WHO DIED

OCT 2. 1879

AGED 63 YEARS

__________________

MAY HIS SOUL REST

IN PEACE

ALSO HIS WIFE ANNE

WHO DIED 8 TH  MAY 1900

AGED 83 YEARS

THEIR SON JOHN

WHO DIED 9 TH MAY 1902

AGED 44 YEARS

AND THOMAS

WHO DIED 2 ND MARCH 1903 AGED 40

ROBERT DIED 11 TH JULY 1911

HIS WIFE MARGARET

DIED 24 TH   FEBRUARY 1958

THEIR SONS JOHN 

DIED 12 TH OCTOBER 1932 

BIRTIE DIED AUG 1935

ANNE CLAFFEY O'HALLORAN

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
53.321710277778
Longitude: 
-8.1430780555556
Number of people commemorated: 
8
People commemorated: 
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Claffey
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1879
Age: 
63
Address: 
Bitterfield, Gortnashavoge, Creagh
Name: 
Anne
Surname: 
Claffey nee O'Halloran
Date of death - day: 
8
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1900
Age: 
83
Relationship with first person: 
Wife of John Claffey
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Claffey
Date of death - day: 
9
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1902
Age: 
44
Relationship with first person: 
Son of John Claffey
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Claffey
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1903
Age: 
40
Relationship with first person: 
Son of John Claffey
Name: 
Robert
Surname: 
Claffey
Date of death - day: 
11
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1911
Relationship with first person: 
Son of John Claffey
Name: 
Margaret
Surname: 
Claffey (nee Tierney)
Date of death - day: 
24
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1958
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter in law of John Claffey
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Claffey
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1932
Age: 
29
Relationship with first person: 
Grand-Son of John Claffey
Name: 
Birtie
Surname: 
Claffey
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1935
Relationship with first person: 
Grand - Son of John Claffey
Notes: 

The address for this headstone is Bitterfield which is a local name for the area around where Claffeys lived in the village of Gortnashavogue, parish of Creagh. Anne Claffey who died in 1900 was nee O'Halloran. 

Civil death record states Robert Claffey died in 1911 aged 55 years at Clonkeen, Aughrim.Also John Claffey died in 1932 aged 29 in Clonkeen, Aughrim. Margaret Claffey, wife of Robert, died in 1958 and she was nee Tierney from Ballydonagh, Kiltomer.

Census 1901:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Culliagh/Gort...

Census 1911: 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Culliagh/Gort...

Census 1901 for Robert Claffey in Aughrim: 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Oatfield/Cloonke...

Census 1911 for Robert Claffey in Aughrim:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Oatfield/Cloonke...