ERECTED
BY
MICHAEL COFFEY , GRANGE,
IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER ,
MICHAEL COFFEY, DIED JAN 6TH 1907
AND HIS MOTHER ,
MARY COFFEY ( SHEEHAN ), DIED MAR 3RD 1907
AND HIS SISTERS ,
MARY COFFEY DIED JUNE 4TH 1926.
ELIZABETH FOLEY DIED DEC 22ND 1920.
BRIDGET COFFEY DIED MAY 20TH 1944.
MICHAEL COFFEY
DIED FEB 17TH 1951.
CATHERINE COFFEY
DIED AUG 4TH 1955.
WILLIAM COFFEY
DIED MAY 27TH 1965.
R.I.P.
A kerbed Celtic cross.
NB. Grange, Knocklong parish , Co. Limerick.
NB. The Michael Coffey who had the stone erected and the Michael Coffey who died in 1951 are the same person.
Michael Coffey married Mary Sheahan in Glenbrohane RC on the 25-02-1868.
Their children were Ellen Coffey 1869, Bridget 1870-1944, Michael 1873-1951, Elizabeth 1874-1920 & Mary 1876-1926.
Michael Coffey (1873-1951) married Catherine Leahy (1877-1955), daughter of farmer Patrick Leahy of Ballycahill, Hospital, Co. Limerick , in Knockaney RC on the 30-01-1908.
Children born to them included Michael Coffey 1908, Patrick Christopher 1910 & William Andrew 1911.
Elizabeth Coffey (1874-1920) married Patrick M Foley, a shopkeeper in Hospital, Co. Limerick on the 29-02-1908 in Knocklong RC.
A son, James Joseph Foley , was born in 1912.