Stories in Stone
Pillars of the Town
A market town is held up by its people — the magistrates who kept its order, the lawyers and doctors who served it, the merchants and innkeepers who gave it its trade. Gathered here are the stones of Nenagh's pillars: men and women whose standing the town thought worth recording in the limestone. They are Justices of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenants of the county, an attorney dead at thirty-three 'high in his profession,' physicians and a barrister, a merchant and a hotelier — and a brass plaque that names, in one roll-call, the leading men who underwrote the building of a church. Read together they trace the civic and commercial life of Nenagh across two centuries.
St. Mary's of the Rosary Church
P. Dean White
20 others remembered
The guarantors of St Mary's of the Rosary — a brass naming the J.P.s, solicitor and businessmen who underwrote the building of the church: a roll-call of Nenagh's leading men.
Read inscriptionSt. Mary's Church of Ireland
Richard Wills Gason
1844 – 1850 · 1 other remembered
Richard Wills Gason of Richmond, Nenagh — Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of the county. Died 25 September 1844, aged 70.
Read inscriptionSt. Mary's Church of Ireland
George Finch
1832
George Finch of Kilcolman — Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of County Tipperary.
Read inscriptionSt. Mary's Church of Ireland
George Guy Atkinson
1872 – 1880 · 1 other remembered
George Guy Atkinson, J.P., of Ashley Park, Nenagh — a Justice of the Peace. Died 30 July 1872, aged 73.
Read inscriptionSt. Mary's Church of Ireland
Charles Carrique Foley
1897
Charles Carrique Foley, J.P., of Summer Hill, Nenagh — a Justice of the Peace. Died 11 March 1897, aged 69.
Read inscriptionSt. Mary's of the Rosary Church
Thomas John Riggs-Miller
1895
Thomas John Riggs-Miller, J.P. — a Justice of the Peace, remembered by a memorial window in St Mary's of the Rosary. Died 6 March 1895.
Read inscriptionTyone Old Graveyard
Dan Gleeson
1827
Dan Gleeson, attorney at law — 'talented, high in his profession,' yet dead at only thirty-three. Died 2 March 1827.
Read inscriptionKenyon Street Graveyard
William T. Poe
William T. Poe of Curraghmore — Barrister at Law.
Read inscriptionKenyon Street Graveyard
Ellen McKeogh
1800 · 2 others remembered
Dr Pierce McKeogh, M.D., of Nenagh — a physician of the town, here commemorating his wife and infant daughter.
Read inscriptionKenyon Street Graveyard
Mary Kitson
2 others remembered
The Kitsons of Nenagh — Doctor Edward Kitson and his brother Doctor John Kitson, a family in medicine.
Read inscriptionTyone Old Graveyard
William Burke
1840
William Burke, merchant of Nenagh — carried off by 'a malignant fever' on 27 July 1840, aged 36.
Read inscriptionFranciscan Friary Graveyard
Patrick Joseph O'Brien
1911 – 1943 · 3 others remembered
Patrick Joseph O'Brien of the Hibernian Hotel, Nenagh — a hotelier of the town. Died 10 January 1911, aged 75.
Read inscriptionFranciscan Friary Graveyard
Patrick Cane
1866
Patrick Cane of Nenagh — remembered for 'a life of strict integrity and sincere piety.'
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