RO-KLBG-0348

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

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

MICHAEL TURLEY

WHO DIED 16TH MAY 1849

AGED 53 YEARS

ALSO HIS WIFE JULIA CARROLL

DIED 25TH APRIL 1890

AGED 74 YEARS

ALSO HER DAUGHTER MARY CARROLL

DIED 22ND DECEMBER 1885

AGED 26 YEARS

ERECTED BY THEIR FOND DAUGHTER

BRIDGET TURLEY CLONULTY

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.321585277778
Longitude: 
-8.1426702777778
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
K EGAN
Erected by: 
THEIR FOND DAUGHTER BRIDGET TURLEY, CLONULTY.
Number of people commemorated: 
3
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Michael
Surname: 
Turley
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1849
Age: 
53
Name: 
Julia
Surname: 
Carroll
Date of death - day: 
25
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1890
Age: 
74
Address: 
CLONULTY
Relationship with first person: 
wife of Michael and following his death Julia married Mr Carroll
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Carroll
Date of death - day: 
22
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1885
Age: 
26
Address: 
CLONULTY
Relationship with first person: 
daughter of Julia Carroll
Notes: 

Family sources inform us the address for Michael Turley was Cornaveigh.

Michael Turleys wife Julia remarried Mr Carroll, Clonulty & Mary Carroll was her daughter.

This headstone was erected by Bridget Turley daughter of Michael & Julia Turley. Bridget Turley was born circa 1837 and she died 8th June 1898 aged 61 years at Clonulty and she was also interred in this plot.It is recorded that Bridget Turley worked for the poet Henry Wadsworth, the National Poet for the USA. Bridget Turley donated the stained glass window depicting the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven in Moore Church. This headstone has fallen over in 2017.