LA-LEAO-0071

Record Date: 
4 November 2020
Graveyard: 
Lea, Old
Exact wording of epitaph: 

This stone was erected

by Mathew Hickey in

memory of his wife Mary

who depd this life February

2 nd1780 aged 32 yrs

Grave location
County: 
Laois
Latitude: 
53.155166980034
Longitude: 
-7.1412716200308
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Hickey
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1780
Age: 
32
Notes: 

Angle-shouldered, elongated round topped headstone, pink sandstone, sound and in situ.

IHS with T cross attached, carved in false relief. The T cross is unusual on a national scale.