LI-CEKM-025

Record Date: 
4 September 2012
Graveyard: 
Kilmurry
Exact wording of epitaph: 

ERECTED BY HIS ADMIRERS
IN PROUD MEMORY OF
JOHN O GRADY
WORLD'S CHAMPION WEIGHT THROWER
BORN AT BALLYBRICKEN
CO LIMERICK 17TH FEB 1892
DIED AT LIMERICK 26TH NOV. 1934
HE WORTHILY UPHELD IRELAND'S
ATHLETIC PRESTIGE AND
ENDEARED HIMSELF TO ALL
BY HIS LOVABLE CHARACER
AND SIMPLE BEARING
BEANNACT DE LE N-A ANAM

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Limerick
Latitude: 
52.590689722222
Longitude: 
-8.4372813888889
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
T Keane, Limerick
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
John
Surname: 
O Grady
Date of birth - day: 
17
Date of birth - month: 
February
Date of birth - year: 
1892
Date of death - day: 
26
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1934
Address: 
Ballybricken, Co. Limerick