RO-KLBG-0350

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

    HEADSTONE 1

          IHS

SACRED TO THE MEMORY

OF THOS DOWNEY DIED AUG

THE 1ST 1828 ALSO HIS WIFE

MARGARET DOWNEY DIED

JUNE THE 7TH 1839 ERECD

BY HIS SON MICHL DOWNEY

UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA

    HEADSTONE 2

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

DELIA DOWNEY EARLSPARK

DIED 24TH FEBRUARY 1961 AGED 85 YRS

HER HUSBAND JAMES

DIED 28TH FEBRUARY 1968

AGED 90 YRS

TOM DOWNEY BROTHER-IN-LAW

DIED 24TH FEBRUARY 1968

PATRICK DOWNEY SON DIED 1919

MARY (BABY) KENNY DAUGHTER 

DIED 19TH OCTOBER 1999

AGED 80 YRS

HER HUSBAND KIERAN

DIED 12TH OCTOBER 2006

AGED 95 YRS

R.I.P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.321662777778
Longitude: 
-8.1426619444444
Additional details
Erected by: 
Headstone 1 Erected by their son Michael Downey USA.
Number of people commemorated: 
8
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Downey
Date of death - day: 
1
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1828
Address: 
EARLSPARK
Name: 
Margaret
Surname: 
Downey
Date of death - day: 
7
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1839
Relationship with first person: 
wife of Thomas
Name: 
Delia
Surname: 
Downey (nee Kelly)
Date of birth - year: 
1874
Date of death - day: 
26
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1961
Age: 
85
Address: 
EARLSPARK
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Downey
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1968
Age: 
90
Relationship with first person: 
husband of James Downey
Name: 
Tom
Surname: 
Downey
Date of birth - year: 
1865
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1932
Age: 
67
Relationship with first person: 
BROTHER IN LAW OF JAMES DOWNEY
Name: 
Patrick
Surname: 
Downey
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1918
Relationship with first person: 
SON OF DELIA & JAMES DOWNEY
Name: 
Mary (Baby)
Surname: 
Kenny (nee Downey)
Date of death - day: 
19
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1999
Age: 
80
Relationship with first person: 
daughter of Delia & James Downey & wife of Kieran Kenny.
Name: 
Kieran
Surname: 
Kenny
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
2006
Age: 
95
Relationship with first person: 
son in law of Delia & James Downey.
Notes: 

Delia  Downey was nee Kelly from Clonulty and wife of James Downey.

Also interred here is Patrick Downey & Mary Downey nee Murray from Rathpeak.

Census 1901 for Delia Kelly (later Downey): 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Ballydangan/Cloonulty/1654865/

Census 1901 & 1911 for Downey: 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Creagh/Rathpeak/1655288/