TS-EMOG-0042

Record Date: 
25 May 2015
Graveyard: 
Emly
Exact wording of epitaph: 

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.

 ERECTED BY

 CATHERINE McCRAITH,

IN MEMORY OF

HER BROTHER,

REV. DENIS  McCRAITH,

WHO DEPARTED LIFE

27TH FEBRUARY 1803, AGED 45.

 

MAY HE REST IN PEACE.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.462548305556
Longitude: 
-8.3517966666667
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
John Grady
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Catherine
Surname: 
McCraith
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Denis
Surname: 
McCraith
Date of birth - year: 
1758
Date of death - day: 
27
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1803
Age: 
45
Relationship with first person: 
Brother
Notes: 

NB.  Headstone facing west, as was the custom then for a priest’s headstone.

Rev. Denis McCraith was P.P. in Emly 1798-1803. He was a curate in Tipperary town 1792-1798.

NB. See bottom of headstone for details of the stonemason, John Grady.