Timothy Dowling 1800s

Dear Bill: 

Thank you for your post to the Ireland Reaching Out message board.  I have forwarded your post to one of our Laois volunteers who may be able to assist.  She will reply to this thread.

In the meantime, you might check out the website https://historicgraves.com/

The Historic Graves project is a community based project that has trained communities all over Ireland to record, photograph and transcribe their local graveyards.  You can search by graveyard, location and/or surname. 

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

All the best,

Jane

Bill,   Here is a copy of grave inscription from Raheen Graveyard on Historic Graves 

Exact wording of epitaph: 

IHS

Gloria in Excelcius Deo

Here lies the body of Timothy Dowlin

of Mount Eagle who departed this life

the 17th day of March 1797 Aged 19 yrs

May the Lord have Mercy on his soul

Amen

Memorial Type: 

Ledger Slab

HIDEGRAVE LO

County: 

Laois

Latitude: 

52.966833333333

Longitude: 

-7.3716666666667

This is the only recorded headstone in this old graveyard in Raheen of a Dowling.  There are no Fannings recorded as buried here though there are several un-recorded headstones.  Propably they were illegible.  There is a photograph of the headstone on the site also. Was there a townland mentioned on the birth record of Michael?  I will see if I can get any  further information for you before your visit.

Regards

Margaret 

Thank you very much Margaret.  Maybe this Timothy could be an uncle, or even a namesake? Unfortunately Michael’s baptismal record does not mention a townland. I realistically don’t expect to find the actual grave because it was so long ago and they probably didn’t have enough money to afford a quality gravestone that could last close to 200 years. However, I was not aware of this Timothy’s grave or cemetery.  At this point I’m just trying to an idea of where Catholic burials would have occurred in the early to mid 1800s.