ERECTED BY NICHOLAS DINEEN
OF BALLYLANDERS, IN MEMORY
OF HIS BELOVED WIFE, MARY
DINEEN, WHO DEPARTED LIFE
NOV 13 1858, AGED 33 YEARS.
VERSE ON BACK OF STONE :
GRIEVE NOT FOR ME, MY CHILDREN DEAR,
I AM NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPING HERE,
I WAS NOT YOURS, BUT CHRIST’S ALONE,
HE LOVED ME BEST AND TOOK ME HOME.
NB. Mary Dineen, nee Fleming.
Marriage to Nicholas Dineen (1807-1886), grocer & farmer in Ballyladers RC, Co. Limerick on the 17-5-1849.
A son, James Dineen was born in February 1851 and married Catherine Hayes of Kilgarriff , Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick on the 22-02-1879 in Glenbrohane RC. Catherine was born in July 1858 to parents Daniel Hayes & Ellen Magner.
Nicholas Dineen (1807-1886) remarried to Mary Brazil . Children born to them included Margaret Dineen 1860, Francis Brazil Dineen 1862-1916, William 1864-1900, Helena (Ellen) 1866, Johanna 1868 & Kate 1872.
Margaret Dineen married Patrick Meade in Ballylanders RC on the 09-02-1892.
Her sister , Ellen Dineen , married John Power in Bansha RC on the 30-04-1898.
William Dineen 1864-1900, married Johanna ( Hannah ) Lewis 1869-1931, daughter of Michael Lewis & Bridget Power of Knockcarra, Bansha, Co. Tipperary on the 11th Apr 1894 in Bansha RC. Children born to them at Glennahaglisha, Ballylanders, Co. Limerick were Nicholas Augustine Dineen 1896-1974, Bridget Mary 1898 & William Joseph 1900-1970.
Nicholas Augustine Dineen 1896-1974, married Ellen Maguire , daughter of Bryan Maguire & Mary Daly of Glennahaglisha, Ballylanders on the 14th Feb 1926 in Thurles Cathedral, Co. Tipperary.
His brother William Joseph Dineen 1900-1970, married Mary Margaret ( Mamie ) Walsh 1917-1999, daughter of David Walsh on the 11th Feb 1941 in Thurles Cathedral also. Both William Joseph Dineen & his wife Mamie & his brother Nicholas Augustine are interred in Ballingarry cemetery, Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick at memorial LI-BLGY-0276 on the historicgraves website.
Francis Brazil Dineen (1862-1916) , known as Frank, is the only man to have been President of the GAA ( 1895-1898 ) and General Secretary of it (1889-1901). In his youth, he was an accomplished athlete. He purchased a site on Jones' Road in Dublin in 1908 and donated it to the GAA in 1913, which became the present day Croke Park. Hill 16, was renamed The Dineen Hill 16 when Croke Park was renovated in 2006.
Frank was a sports journalist in Dublin in later life. He died unmarried, aged 54 from a cerebral haemorrhage in St. Vincents Hospital, Dublin on the 18-04-1916. He was interred in St Paul's section of Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin.
NB. See memorial LI-BLGY-0276 in Ballingarry cemetery, Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick on the historic graves website