CO-KSNG-0144

Record Date: 
15 November 2012
Graveyard: 
Newberry (Kilshannig)
Exact wording of epitaph: 

MARY WITTY
DAUGHTER TO
JOHN WITTY
WHO DYED
THE 14TH DAY
OF DECEMB
ER IN THE 29TH
YEAR OF HER
AGE ANNO
DOM 1717
MEMENTOMO

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
52.122598055556
Longitude: 
-8.7073730555556
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Witty
Date of death - day: 
14
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1717
Age: 
29
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Witty
Relationship with first person: 
Father
Notes: 

This is the oldest inscribed headstone in Kilshannig Cemetry at 1717.
Memento Mori is latin for reminder of death or mortality and may be the message on the headstone