LI-STBY-0107

Record Date: 
23 January 2013
Graveyard: 
Exact wording of epitaph: 

HERE LIES THE BODY
OF
THOMAS WOODYER
HOUSE STEWARD AT
MOUNTSHANNON
IN THIS PARISH
WHO DIED 20th JULY
1839
AGED SIXTY FIVE YEARS

THIS STONE WAS ERECTED
IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS
FAITHFUL AND ATTACHED SERVICE
OF THIRTY YEARS
BY
JOHN EARL OF CLARE

Memorial Type: 
Chest tomb
Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
52.70811
Longitude: 
-8.5066030555556
Additional details
Number of components: 
1
Inscribed faces: 
1
Condition of grave: 
Leaning
Condition of inscription: 
Mainly decipherable
Introductory term: 
Here lies the body of ....
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Woodyer
Date of death - day: 
20
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1839
Age: 
65
Title: 
Earl of Clare
Name: 
John
Notes: 

Mountshannon House was a large mansion in Lisnagry, near Castleconnell, County Limerick, built in the mid-18th century. It was the home of John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare. It was burnt down during the Anglo-Irish war in 1920. Today it is mostly a ruin.

The house was built sometime in the mid-18th century, and was first occupied around 1750. It was subsequently purchased by the Fitzgibbon family, who were later to become the Earls of Clare. The estate covered 900 acres (3.6 km2) of land, being bounded to the south by the Mulkear river, the Shannon to the west, and extending some 2 and a half miles along the main Limerick to Castleconnell road from Annacotty to Newgarden.

John FitzGibbon, later known as Earl of Clare or Lord Clare, was Attorney-General for Ireland in 1783, then Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1789.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountshannon_house