Tipperary Memorials
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In Memory

Blanch Poe

1834 · St. Mary's Church of Ireland

In the family vault in this churchyard are deposited the remains of Blanch Poe, relict of James Poe of Solsborough, Esq. She was third daughter of Samuel Waller of Newport, and of Anne Jocelyn, only sister of the Right Hon. Robert Lord Viscount Jocelyn, late Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Surviving her husband more than fifty years, she departed this life on the 24th Septr 1834 in the 86th year of her age. Her son James Hill Poe, Rector of this Parish, in deploring his loss, has erected this plain memorial of a Mother's virtues and a Son's regret.
Full transcribed inscription

Those remembered here

  • Blanch Poe

    relict of James Poe of Solsborough; daughter of Samuel Waller of Newport

    d. 1834aged 85

Record details

Survey record
No. 27
Memorial type
Wall tablet — white marble on black base
Condition
Legible
Location
Church interior
Recorded
1982 survey
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Source: Ormond Historical Society — Gravestone Inscriptions, Co. Tipperary, Section B (Barony of Upper Ormond), Vol. 5: Parish of Nenagh (1982). Compiled by Nancy Murphy.