TS-EMOG-0599

Record Date: 
19 January 2016
Graveyard: 
Emly
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN   LOVING   MEMORY  

OF

 JAMES   HIGGINS   OF   EMLY , 

DIED   DEC  28  1934. 

HIS   WIFE ,  JOHANNA ,  NEE  DONOVAN , 

DIED   DEC   21 1928. 

HER  SISTER ,  ELLEN  

DIED   APRIL   5    1921. 

JOSEPHINE   HIGGINS  

DIED   FEB   11   1928. 

JAMES   HIGGINS  

DIED   MAY   31   1961. 

BRIDGET   MULHALL ,  NEE   HIGGINS , 

DIED   MARCH   28  1960. 

VINCENT   TWOMEY , 

BORN   5TH   APRIL  1930 ,  DIED   IN   INFANCY.

 R.I.P.

 MARY   MULHALL , ( NEE  HEELAN ),  

DIED   17TH   NOVEMBER   2001. 

HER   HUSBAND  

JAMES   DESMOND  ( DES )   MULHALL  

DIED   22ND  JUNE   2002.

 REST   IN   PEACE.

Memorial Type: 
Kerbed stone/memorial
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.463003333333
Longitude: 
-8.3510716666667
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
Hanley - Emly
Number of people commemorated: 
9
People commemorated: 
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Higgins
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1934
Address: 
Emly
Name: 
Johanna
Surname: 
Higgins
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1928
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
Ellen
Surname: 
Donovan
Date of death - day: 
5
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1921
Relationship with first person: 
Sister - in - law.
Name: 
Josephine
Surname: 
Higgins
Date of death - day: 
11
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1928
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Higgins
Date of death - day: 
31
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1961
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Bridget
Surname: 
Mulhall
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1960
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Vincent
Surname: 
Twomey
Date of birth - day: 
5
Date of birth - month: 
April
Date of birth - year: 
1930
Date of death - year: 
1930
Relationship with first person: 
Grandson
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Mulhall
Date of death - day: 
17
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
2001
Relationship with first person: 
Granddaughter - in - law.
Name: 
James Desmond
Surname: 
Mulhall
Date of death - day: 
22
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
2002
Relationship with first person: 
Grandson
Notes: 

The  Emly  premises ,  widely  known  as  The  Golden  Thatch  was  known  in  earlier  times  as  Higgins’   Hotel. 

James   Higgins (1855-1934),  son  of  David   Higgins  &  Maria  Herbert   of   Kilmallock,  Co.  Limerick ,  married   Johanna   Donovan   (1848 -1928),  daughter   of   Thomas   Donovan  &  Bridget  Hayes   of   Emly ,  in   Emly   RC  on  the  14-02-1884. 

Their  daughter,  Bridget   Higgins  (1886-1960)   married   James   Aloysius  Mulhall   of  Cullenagh ,  Ballyroan ,  Co.   Laois  in   Emly  RC   on  the  26-04-1917. 

Their  children ,  all  born  at  Cullenagh,  Ballyroan,   Co.   Laois ,  were   Patrick   J  Mulhall  1919-2005,  Aileen  1923,  James   Desmond  (Des)   1924-2002   &   Joseph   1925.   Their  father ,  James   Aloysius   Mulhall   died  in  1925  and  his  widow   Bridget   Mulhall , nee   Higgins (1886-1960)  and   her  family  relocated  to  Emly.

James   Desmond  (Des)   Mulhall  (1924-2002)  married   Mary  Josephine   Heelan   (1924-2001),  daughter  of   Joseph   Heelan   &   Elizabeth   Condon   of   Ballinvrina ,   Emly   in   1958.  Children  born   to  them  were ,  Dermot   Mulhall 1959-2013,  Elizabeth,  Breda   &  Miriam.

NB.  Johanna  (Josephine )   Higgins  (1889-1928)   and   James   Higgins  (1892 -1961)  whose  names  are  recorded  on  this  stone  were  siblings   of   Bridget   Mulhall , nee   Higgins (1886-1960) .  .  

Other  siblings  were  Mary  Higgins   1885  and   Catherine   Margaret  (Kathleen)  Higgins  1890,  who  married  Thomas  Alphonsus  Twomey  in  Emly  RC  on the 14-9-1923.  Their son, Vincent  Twomey  recorded  here,  died  in  infancy.

Thomas  A  Twomey  was  born  in  Lacken , Kilmihill, Co. Clare on  the 13-01-1887.  Parents  were  Jeremiah  Twomey  (1858 -1946) &  Jane  Hunt  (1852-1924), both of whom were National School  teachers.

NB.  See   related   information   for   memorial   numbers   0503   &   0598.