County Carlow
Journals of the Memorials of the Dead
KINEAGH

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The following details have been transcribed from the Journals titled, "Journal for the Memorials of the Dead"  which can be found at County Carlow Library, Tullow Street, Carlow, Co Carlow IRELAND.

 Kineagh Churchyard.

[From Lord Walter Fitzgerald.]

    'Though just over the borders into the County Carlow, yet the Parish of Kineagh belongs to the Diocese of Kildare.
     'A modern Protestant Church stands near the public road, and a couple of fields away to the south of it lies the ancient burial-ground of Kineagh.

JPMD, Vol VI, Issue 1904 -05 - 1906, CARLOW, Page 431

     'Of the former church, which consisted of nave and chancel, little but the foundations are now visible.
     'At the west end of the ruins is a small granite cross-base with a deep socket for the shaft.  A square granite pillar-stone stands to the north-west of the ruin, on one side of which is a Maltese-shaped 

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cross, with a long double shaft in relief.  It measures 5½ feet in height, 22 inches in breadth, and is 10 inches thick.  Close beside it is a rough-socketed, circular, granite cross-base, 18 inches high and 32 inches in diameter.  Whether these two stones belong to one another is hard to say ; but I think it is doubtful, as one side of the shaft is smooth and bevelled and the other is rough, which would tend to prove it was not inteded to stand upright.  The inscriptions on the grave-stones are modern.  Among the earliest are the following:―

     'Headstone':―

†
I H S

Here lyeth I the Body of Torlaugh I Kincela who
departed this I life ye 14th of August ye I year 1742
Eage 45 years.

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     'Headstone':―

†
I H S

Here lyeth the I Body of Richard I Hughes son of
Michll Hughes of Reail* I who departed this I life
August 30 1758 I Aged 11 Years.

JPMD, Vol VI, Issue 1904 -05 - 1906, CARLOW, Page 432  

Kineagh Churchyard.

     'On a flat slab at the foot of the above, very faintly cut is' :―

†
I. H. S.
This Stone was Erected by Marget Murry
alias Hughes, in Memory of her husband
Michl Hughes of Raiel,* who crossed over
The Verge of Death, and launched into the
Bay of Eternity, the 12th of April 1792 Aged 82.
Lord have Mercy on his Soul.

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     'Flat slab, inscription very faint' :―

†
I. H. S.
Here lieth the Body of Terence
Kinsella who died the 14th Augt
1742 aged 42 years, with three
of his children.  Also the body of 
Darby Byrn his Brother-in-law
who died May the 21 1773 Aged 68
years.  Likewise Daniel Kinsella
Eldest son of the above-said Terence
who died Janry 17th 1774 Aged 50 yrs
Lord have Mercy on their Souls Amen.
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     'A headstone' :―

†
I. H. S.

Here lyeth the I Body of Elizabeth I Kenny who
departed I this life the 11th day I of Nov. 1761.  Aged I 
. . years.

     'At the head of one of the graves on the south-east side of the burial ground, being used as a headstone, is the granite sill of a window of two lights.'

     *This is intended for Rahill, a townland in the County Carlow, three miles to the north of Kineagh.

JPMD, Vol VI, Issue 1904 -05 - 1906, CARLOW, Page 433 

I have endeavoured to be as accurate as possible in transcribing the information from the various sources however it is possible that errors may have occurred. Data should be verified against original copies and sources.

 

 

 

 
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