WM-BMRE-0024

Record Date: 
7 September 2018
Graveyard: 
St. Owen's, Ballymore
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IHS

O God have mercy on

the soul of Margret

Kelly alias Coghlan

Who depd this life

April 19 1799 aged 40 yrs

Her loving son Willm

Kelly gratefull to her

memory who erecd 

this monument

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Westmeath
Latitude: 
53.493102777778
Longitude: 
-7.6715361111111
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Margaret
Surname: 
Kelly alias Coghlan
Date of death - day: 
19
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1799
Age: 
40
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Kelly
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Notes: 

Description:  On top: enclosed in a full sunburst – the Christogram – I H S, with Omega forming the cross-bar of the H which is surmounted by a Cross.  Daisy pattern (symbolising  simplicity and innocence) on the lower left corner of the sunburst.

Incised inscription in Roman capitals and lower case, and serifs