THIS MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE
MEMORY OF JOHN BARRY
ESQR OF SANDVILLE WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE THE 29 DAY OF AUGUST 1839
AGED 60 YEARS
HERE REST ALSO THE REMAINS OF HIS
RELICT MARY WHO DIED APRIL 1855
AGED 75 YEARS
THEIR ELDEST SON JAMES BARRY JP
WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 2 1856
AGED 50 YEARS AND HIS RELICT
MARIA NEE GRENE WHO DIED JUNE 2 1878
AGED 67 YEARS
JOHN BARRY OF SANDVILLE
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 10 1860
JAMES GRENE BARRY J.P.D.L.
WHO DIED DECEMBER 13 1929
AGED 89 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE MARY NEE KANE
WHO DIED APRIL 2 1948
AGED 92 YEARS
AND NICHOLAS J. BARRY
WHO DIED MARCH 2 1930
AGED 76 YEARS
JAMES THOMAS BARRY BA
WHO DIED AT SANDVILLE ON THE 20TH JULY 1955 AGED 73 YRS
FORTIFIED BY THE RITES OF THE CHURCH
REQUIESCANT IN PACE
RIP
(AT BASE OF CHEST TOMB)
ANNA MAUD BARRY V.A.D.
ST JOHNS AMBULANCE BRIGADE
AGED 26 YEARS RESTS HERE HAVING HAD HER
CHARITABLE CAREER ENDED BY A FOUL ACT THE
SINKING OF THE RMS LEINSTER IN THE IRISH SEA
OCTOBER 10 1918
DONAL M.BARRY DEPTY COMMR PAHANG F.M.S.
ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED FEBRY 18TH 1923
AGED 37 YEARS BURIED AT KUALA LIPIS
WHERE THE HEAVENS SHINE BRIGHTLY O'ER THEE
THE PRIDE OF BYGONE DAYS
WHEN NONE KNEW THEE BUT TO LOVE THEE
AND NONE LOVED THEE BUT TO PRAISE
RIP
Chest Tomb on top of a likely grass covered vault.
Shortly before 9 a.m. on 10 October 1918 the R.M.S Leinster left Carlisle Pier, Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, Ireland. Bound for Holyhead Anglesey, Wales she carried 771 passengers and crew. The ship was commanded by Captain William Birch (61), a Dubliner who had settled with his family in Holyhead. Apart from Birch, the Leinster had a crew of 76, drawn from the ports of Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) and Holyhead. Also on board were 22 postal sorters from Dublin Post Office, working in the ship's onboard postal sorting room. There were 180 civilian passengers, men, women and children, most of them from Ireland and Britain. But by far the greatest number of passengers on board the Leinster were military personnel. A German u-boat, UB-123 on 10 October 1918 torpedoed and sunk the R.M.S. Leinster. Officially 501 people died in the sinking, making it both the greatest ever loss of life in the Irish and the highest ever casualty rate on an Irish owned ship. Research to date has revealed the names of 529 casualties.