Ballymacmurragh Roman Catholic Parish, Offaly or King's County, IRELAND

It was Christmas time (2006) when I was in this graveyard, at the graveyard before it I had met a man whose children were off in Australia and we talked about what it was like to have your kids gone at Christmas. Here, I met an older man who arrived on a tractor and he was visting his wife who was buried in this graveyard. He told me that one side of the graveyard was in one parish and the other side in another and that if I looked out across those fields I was looking at where two baronies meet.

There are a few stones that I couldn't read from the photographs not too many and then there are some table tombs in this graveyard. For the msot part, the table tombs can be illigible and I don't think there are any in this set which are table tombs. I do have photos of the Table tombs on my graveyard blog as well as general photos of the church. I'm not including those here.

There is one stone for which I have a photo that I am not including in this set, it reads as follows:

In loving memory of / Patrick Bergin / Glendine, Kinnitty / died April 28th 1967 aged 79 years / His wife Margaret / died Sept 28th 1971 / His sisters, Catherine / Died March 13th 1959 / Aged 80 years / Lena / Died October 13th 1960 aged 79 years / R.I.P.

Should any person visit this web site and be interested in the above photo, then please get in touch with me, you'll find a contact address at the bottom of this page.

If you click on any of the thumbnail images on this page, a larger photographs will open for you, then clicking on the Home link that you see over the photograph will bring you back to this index page. The surnames found on the stones are listed below as are the placenames. Some of these people may have been considered to live in Counties Laois (Leix, Queen's Co.) and Tipperary, but they must have belonged to the parish of Ballymacmurragh or had come from there originally

Surnames
Bergin - Boland - Brereton - Brown - Browne - Carroll - Carry - Conway - Conway - Cooper - Corrigan - Coughlan - Daly - Davis - Delaney - Dempsey - Dooley - Dooly - Edgel or Edgely - Egan - Finnerty - Fitzpatrick - Flanagan - Gleeson - Glenn - Grawn? - Hanly - Hennessy - Hensey - Hogan - Lawlor - Mahon - McDonnell - McDowell - Meledy - Molloy - Rigney - Robinson - Russell - Ryan - Sharpe

Placenames
Ballym(?a)ck - Ballywilliam - Beaugh - Cadamstown - Castletown - Charleville, Borris in Ossory - Clashroe, Roscrea - Clashroo? - Clonlee - Clonlee, Kinnitty - Cumber - Derrybeg, Clareen - Derrykeele - Droughtville - Droughtville, Kinnitty - Glendine, Kinnity - Grouse Lodge? - Kenety - Knockarlow - Knockbarron, Kinnitty - Kyle - Longford - Newtown - Newtown, Clareen - Oakley Park, Clareen - - Poulduff - Poulduff, Kinnitty - The
Strand - Tulla

Hanly 1 close	Boland 1	Brereton 1 close	Brereton1a	Brown 1 close 3
Brown 1 close 4	Brown 1 close	Brown 1 close 2	Brown 1	Brown 2 Carroll Browne
Brown 2a etc	Browne 1 close	Browne 1a	Browne 2	Browne 3
Browne 4	Carroll 1	Carry 1 close	Cassidy 1	Condon 1 close
Conway 1 Hogan	Conway 2	Conway 4 close	Cooper	Costelloe 1 close
Costelloe 1 close2	Coughlan 1	Coughlan 2	Coughlan 3	Culleton 1a
Culleton 1b.JPG	Davis 1 Dooley Dooly plot	Delaney 1 plot	Delaney 1a	Dempsey 1 Ryan
Edgely maybe 1 close	Egan 1	Egan 2 Daly	Finnerty 1	Fitzpatrick 1 close
Fitzpatrick 1a close	Flanagan 1 close	Flanagan 2	Gleeson 1	Glenn 1
Grawn 1 close	Hanly 1 close	Hennessy 1 Corrigan plot	Hensey 1 Delaney	Lawlor 1
Mahon 1	McDonnell 1	McDowell 1	Meledy 1 close	Molloy 1 close
Molloy 2 close	Molloy 3 close	Molloy 4	Molloy 5	?Rigney
Murphy 1 Mullins	O'Grady 1	Quinlan 1	Rigney 1	Rigney 2a Corcoran
Rigney 2aa Corcoran	Rigney 2b	Rigney 2bb	Rigney 3	Robinson 1
Ryan 1 Leahy	Tierney 1	Walsh 1

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