LD-SPNF-0081

Record Date: 
29 March 2016
Graveyard: 
Newtown Forbes
Exact wording of epitaph: 

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY

ROBERT GEELAN. CURRYGRANNY HOUSE

IN LOVING MEMORY OF THEIR

     FATHER & MOTHER

JOHN &MARY JANE GiLLAN

   OF CLOONAGEEHER

ALSO HIS BROTHERS

JOHNSTON GEELAN

HENRY GEELAN

WILLIAM GEELAN

JAMES GEELAN 

THE SAID ROBERT GEELAN

DIED AT CURRYGRANNY HSE

20 FEBRUARY 1945. AGED 80 years

AND WAS INTERRED HERE.

ALSO JOHN ARTHUR GEELAN 
16 FEBRUARY 1955

Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away

The Lord is my Shepherd therefore can i lack nothing.

 

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Longford
Latitude: 
53.765243333333
Longitude: 
-7.8368333333333
Number of people commemorated: 
8
People commemorated: 
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Gillan
Date of birth - year: 
1824
Date of death - year: 
1898
Age: 
74
Address: 
Cloonageeher
Name: 
Mary Jane
Surname: 
Gillan nee Thompson
Date of birth - year: 
1825
Date of death - year: 
1899
Age: 
74
Address: 
Cloonageeher
Relationship with first person: 
wife
Name: 
Johnston
Surname: 
Geelan
Date of birth - year: 
1852
Date of death - year: 
1923
Age: 
71
Address: 
Cloonageeher
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Henry
Surname: 
Geelan
Date of birth - year: 
1863
Date of death - year: 
1927
Age: 
64
Address: 
Belfast
Relationship with first person: 
son
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Geelan
Date of birth - year: 
1850
Date of death - year: 
1928
Age: 
78
Address: 
Cloonageeher
Relationship with first person: 
son
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Geelan
Date of birth - year: 
1860
Date of death - year: 
1942
Age: 
82
Address: 
Cloonageeher
Relationship with first person: 
son
Name: 
Robert
Surname: 
Geelan
Date of birth - year: 
1856
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1945
Age: 
89
Address: 
Currygranny House
Relationship with first person: 
son
Name: 
John Arthur Geelan
Date of birth - year: 
1858
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1955
Age: 
97
Address: 
Brighton, England
Relationship with first person: 
son
Notes: 

John Arthur Geelan son of John and MaryJane and  was born in 1854 and died in 1858 aged 4 years..
He is not commemotated on this headstone but family history records his death
.