In Memory
William Burke
1840 · Tyone Old Graveyard
Erected by William Burke in memory of his beloved father William Burke, late of Nenagh, Merchant, who departed this life 27th July 1840 in the 36th year of his age. A malignant fever put a period to his existence and left [a] helpless young family.
Note: An early Famine-era stone; the inscription records death by “a malignant fever”.
Those remembered here
William Burke
Merchant, of Nenagh (in his 36th year)
d. 1840aged 35
Record details
- Survey record
- No. 9
- Memorial type
- Headstone
- Condition
- Legible
- Location
- Tyone graveyard
- Recorded
- 1989 survey
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Source: Ormond Historical Society — Gravestone Inscriptions, Co. Tipperary, Section B (Barony of Upper Ormond), Vol. 10: Parish of Nenagh (1989). Compiled by Rosarie Mullane & Denise Foulkes.