Clare County Library

Kilmaleery Parish

1897, Vol. III (3)

Kilmaleery Church (near Newmarket-on-Fergus).
From T.J. Westropp, Esq.

Tablet:—

“Here lies the body of BRIDGET MACMAHON wife to DONOUGH MACMAHON Esqre and the dau. to the Rt. Hon. LORD VISCOUNT KINGSLAND Departed this life the 16^th July 1733. Here lyes also the body of ANN MACMAHON wife to HENRY MCMAHON and daughter to MAC O’BRIEN ARRA,* departed this life ye 5^th March 1735 This monument was erected by Mr. HENRY MACMAHON in the year of our Lord God 1736.”

* This is a puzzle, as Sir Terlough, the last recognised Mac Ibrien Arra, died 1626.

1910, Vol. VIII (1)

Kilmaleery Church, Newmarket-on-Fergus.
[From Mr. T. J. Westropp.]

It is the Kilmalitrie of the Papal Taxation, 1302, and was evidently remodelled in the eighteenth century; no old feature remains. The monument of the MacMahons, 1733, has already been published in “The Journal for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead,” vol. iii (1897), p. 399 [see above]; but we give a new copy. The church retains its south wall, 2 feet 7 inches thick, and is 14 feet 9 inches wide, and 47 feet 6 inches long inside the lower part and fragments of the other walls remaining. A late tiled vestry projects at the east end to the south:—

In the vestry:—

Here lies the body of Bridget MacMahon wife to Donagh | M^ccMahon Esq^r & Daughter to the | Right Honble Lord Vict Kingsland | Departed this life the 16^th July 1733 Here lyes alsoe the Body of | Ann MacMahon wife of | Henry M^cMahon Daughter of | MacO’Brien Arra | Departed this life y^e 5^th March 1735 | This monument was | erected by M^r Henry MacMahon in y^e | years of our Lord | God 1736.

I H S This Tomb was Erect^ed | by Matthew M^cMahon | In memory of | his father Darm M^cMa | hon who departed | this life 17^th June | 1762 aged 73 years.

Here lies the body of | Ann M^cMahon wife of | Thomas M^cMahon of | Knockane who dep^d | This life Anno Domini | 1792 | Lord have mercy on | her soul.

This Monument erected by | Thom^s M^cMahon of Knockane | Esq^re May the Lord of Heaven | Receive their souls Amen | Anno Domini 1812.

Large altar-tomb made outside south wall and against it.

Margaret M^cMahon alias Morony in memory of her husband John M^cMahon died Dec 18^th 1827 Aged 48

It is ornamented with the cock crowing on the pot, hammer, pincers with a nail, heart, spear, hammer, sun, moon, chalices, I.H.S., nails, spears, thirty pieces of silver, and scales.

The tombstone of Margaret M‘Inerheny, 1831, has a singularly crude cherub cut on it.