TS-EMOG-0281

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

IN  MEMORY  OF

 JOHN  LONERGAN,

DRUMCOMOGUE,

 DIED  AUG  15  1954.  

HIS  WIFE,  MARY,

 DIED  JULY  27TH  1949.

THEIR  SON,  MICHAEL,  

DIED  APRIL  4TH  1966.

 

 R.I.P.

 

ERECTED  BY  MARY  AND  MARGARET.

 

PLAQUE   AT   BASE   OF   STONE  :

 IN   LOVING   MEMORY  OF

MARY  LAVERY, 

DIED   26TH  MAY  2005. 

MARGARET   HOURIGAN 

DIED  14TH  SEPT  2005.

 R.I.P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.462396666667
Longitude: 
-8.3514366666667
Additional details
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
5
People commemorated: 
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Lonergan
Date of death - day: 
15
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1954
Address: 
Drumcomogue
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Lonergan
Date of death - day: 
27
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1949
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
Michael
Surname: 
Lonergan
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1966
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Lavery
Date of death - day: 
26
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
2005
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Margaret
Surname: 
Hourigan
Date of death - day: 
14
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
2005
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Notes: 

Drumcomogue,  Emly.

John Lonergan married Mary Dawson on Jan 26th 1839 in Emly RC, Co. Tipperary. His address at the time was recorded as Monemore, Emly. Children born to them included Michael Lonergan 1839-1918, John 1841, James 1844, Ely 1846 & Anne 1850.

Michael Lonergan 1839-1918, married Mary Daly on Feb 16th 1867 in Emly RC. Children born to them in Emly included Mary Lonergan 1868-1868, Patrick 1869, John 1871-1954 (of this memorial), Anne 1874 & Mary 1876.

John Lonergan 1871-1954, married Mary O’Brien 1885-1949 ( of this memorial), daughter of Edmond O’Brien & Margaret Madden of Bohercarron, Duntryleague, Galbally, Co. Limerick on Feb 8th 1919 in Galbally RC. Children born to them at Drumcomogue, Emly included Michael Lonergan 1920-1966 (of this memorial), Margaret 1922-2005 & Mary 1923-2005.

Michael lonergan 1920-1966, a bachelor, died as a result of asphyxia from a compression of a fracture of the chest wall. His sisters Mary Lavery 1923-2005 & Margaret Hourigan 1922-2005. who had this memorial erected, are recorded on a plaque at the base of it.

See memorial  0282.

NB. A small headstone , existed between this memorial and the adjacent memorial 0282, when the book The Gravestones Inscriptions of Emly was documented in 1993 and must have been moved when this survey was undertaken in 2015/16. It has since been positioned lying up against a small headstone that can be seen in the background of this memorial 0281. The inscription reads as follows :

Erected by Matthew Dempsey of Monemore, in memory of his father Dan Dempsey who departed this life January 30, 1824, aged 78 years. May he rest in peace.

Griffiths Valuation for Monemore, Emly records Jeremiah Dempsey as a tenant of Heffernan Cosidine of Derk from whom he was renting just over 22 acres.  Jeremiah, in turn had sublet a house and land of just over one acre to a Michael Dempsey and also a house and garden to a John Lonergan.