KK-KLMR-043

Record Date: 
11 December 2012
Graveyard: 
Kilmacar
Exact wording of epitaph: 

ERECTED BY RICHARD
DOWNEY IN MEMORY OF
HIS FATHER NICHOLAS DO-
-WNEY WHO DIED SEPT 4th
1709 AGED 50 YEARS
AND OF HIS CHILDREN

REQUESTE CANTE IN PACE ?

Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Latitude: 
52.769053055556
Longitude: 
-7.2726147222222
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
NICHOLAS
Surname: 
DOWNEY
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
1709
Age: 
50
Notes: 

This is the oldest person we can date in Kilmacar Graveyard, died 1709 at 50, so born in or around 1659, after the Cromwellian invasion. He may well be the father of many of the Conahy Downeys.His monument is inside the West gable in the middle, it was likely there before the Kavanagh grave slab,