CO-KLBG-0182

Record Date: 
26 June 2013
Graveyard: 
Kilbrogan
Exact wording of epitaph: 

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
REV. GILBERT LAIRD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH 1858 AGED  70 YEARS
ERECTED BY HIS BELOVED
WIFE MARY
ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF
HER DEAR FATHER, MOTHER,
BROTHERS AND SISTERS
REQUIESCANT IN PACE 

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.756153055556
Longitude: 
-8.73623
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Rev.
Name: 
Gilbert
Surname: 
Laird
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1858
Age: 
70
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Laird
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Notes: 

Rev. Gilbert Laird was a Church of Ireland Rector at Brinny from 1810 until 1858. He married Miss Charlotte Watley in 1815. When Rev. Gilbert’s wife died he married his house-keeper, a lady 50 years his junior, by the name of Mary Murphy. However he died shortly afterwards and was buried in the Murphy family grave here in Kilbrogan.

Brinny (441 acres).  Boirne – Stones or rocky land.  Brinny Church was built in 1737.  It was enlarged in 1813 and remodelled in 1883.  The old parish church was probably where the present protestant church stands.  At the south side are ruins of Brinny Corn mills.  Here lived Sean Dearg Nash who was several times between 1690 and his death in 1725 provost of Bandon.

Sean Dearg Nash (John Nash) is buried in Christ Church, Bandon.

John Desmond.