Prafatorial Remarks:  The pair of iron gates into the church and graveyard are embossed in the usual place by Courtney & Stephens, who were connected with Henry Courtney, Leixlip Iron Works.  Most of this selection was obtained by recording the data on a tape recorder.  The typescript has since been checked against the gravestones.

ARDIFF   [a flat slab] Erected by Mary Ardiff in memory of her husband, Edward Ardiff  who died February 6th 1815 aged 77 years.  Mary Ardiff who died 15/10/1825 aged 75 years.

ARDIFF   Henry Ardiff who died 14th September 1911 aged 45 years and also his infant son, Eddie, and his parents, Henry and Mary who died in 1899.  And also his wife Elizabeth who died 26/3/1940 aged 68 years.

BEAN  In loving memory of Joseph Bean died 8 March 1931 aged 17 and Madeleine Bean died 24 February 1933 aged 22 years and their grandparents Joseph and Mary Bean

BLAKE  Erected by Alice Blake in memory of her loving husband William Blake died 11/4/1922 aged 69 years.  Her daughter Mary Dunne died 20/4/1915 aged 25 years.  Rose Blake died 19/7/1913 aged 20 and the above Alice died 7/9/1955 aged 89.

COLGAN  Patrick Colgan who died 27/4/1913 aged 65 years.  Also his wife Anne Colgan who died 24/9/1933 aged 83 years.  And their children 13/6/1937; Pierce died 18/5/1956; Katherine Maher died 11/5/1959; Patrick died 15/9/1960.  On the side of the stone is written: Nicholas Maher died 26/4/1964 and his son Pierce died 31/12/1975.  On the opposite site is written:  Also their children Joseph died 10/7/1962; Esther died 8/12/1962; Mary died 24/2/1972.

COOGAN  In loving memory of Edward Coogan, Maynooth, who died 2/3/1938 and his son Jack died 15 January 1906 and his wife Marcella Coogan died 11/2/1955. Also their sons William – 5/5/1965; Eddie – 15.8.1966; Gerald – 10/8/1967, daughter Nano – 20/2/1975; Christopher – 25/7/1976.

COONEY  Thomas Cooney of Collinstown died Nov 4th 1736 aged 72[?].  His wife Ann[?] she died …. 26th 1792.

DOWNES  Erected by Edward Downes in memory of his beloved father Denis Downes who died 21st October 1859 aged 62 years and also his mother Catherine Downes who died 30 May 1872 aged 58 years.  Also Joan Margaret and Patrick Downes of Maynooth who died young.   Nearby is an older Downes or Dowans stone from 1768 and near dates.

EATON  This stone belongeth to T[homas?] Eaton and his posterity 1766

FOSTER  Joseph Foster died 1781.  Stone on flat; more…

GLENNON  Arthur?  Catherine Glennon late of Leixlip erected this headstone in memory of her beloved husband Luke Glennon died 13th August 1872.  His sister Mary also died in August 1872.

HANLON  Erected by Elizabeth Hanlon to the memory of Patrick Hanlon her husband who departed this life 26th April 1774 aged 70 years.

KILDUFF  Joseph Kilduff, Ballygoran, died 7th February 1945 aged 31.  His son Michael Kilduff died 24/1/1971 aged 84 years.  Julia, wife of Michael died 3/10/1978 aged 79 years.

O’DONNELL  Martin O’Donnell died 10/12/1975 aged 68 years; Matthew O’Donnell, President, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, who died 27th September 1996 aged 63 years.

PEPARD  Here lyeth the body of Thomas Pepard who departed this life AD 1715[?] and also Elizabeth dec’d wife of John Pepard by whom this was erected 1719 [or 1729].

SHERRY  Lance Corporal M Sherry, Irish Guards, 17 June 1918, aged 26, [no.] 5365.  In the same, large plot are Rose Smith, and Margaret Sherry, Matthew Sherry, Mary Anne Sherry, Patrick Sherry.

SHERRY  Margaret Sherry died 10 August 1932.

SHERRY  Matthew Sherry died October 1914.

SHERRY  Richard Sherry died 5/10/1974.

SHERRY Mary Anne Sherry died 12/12/1923 aged 61 years.  Her husband Patrick died 25/1/1955 aged 88 years.  Their son John died November 1918 and daughter Rose Gough died October 1942.  Mary O’Connor, nee Sherry, died November 25th 1943 aged 75 years.  Michael O’Connor died 13th October 1902 aged 93 years.

SMITH  In memory of Rose Smith, Leixlip, died 7th December 1956.   In Sherry plot.

WEAFER   Erected by Joseph Weafer in memory of his beloved wife, Bridget, departed this life 17/9/1880 aged 76.  Also two of his children Margaret and Joseph who died young.

WEAFER  In loving memory of my dear husband Joseph Weafer, Sunview, Maynooth who died 7th May 1933 aged 62 years.

WEAFER  Matthew Weafer, Carton lodge, Maynooth, who died 8th July 1960 aged 83.  Anna Maria Weafer who died 5th December 1924 aged 18.  Margaret (Peg) Weafer nee Bracken, died 12/12/1940 aged 33 years; Bridget (Bea) nee McGovern, wife of Thomas Weafer, died 14/7/1969 aged 54 years; Annie, wife of Matthew Weafer, died 23/10/1969 aged 93 years; their son, Thomas Weafer, main St., Maynooth, died 18/5/1973 aged 61.

WETTLETON  Erected by Matilda Turner in memory of her brother William Wettleton who died May 9th 1861 aged 18 years.

NOTE THAT LORD WALTER FITZGERALD RECORDED GRAVESTONES HERE.  THEY MAY BE IN HIS PAPERS IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY.  IT IS UNCLEAR WHETHER HE RECORDED ALL OF THEM; MOST LIKELY A SELECTION.

The late Sean O'Riordain, Professor of Archaeology, UCD, and his wife, Gabriel Hayes O'Riordain, sculptor and coin designer, both of whom are deceased and buried in Donaghcumper

ASHE   James, Easton Road, Leixlip, died 4/1/1975 aged 64; wife Mary died 17/5/1986 aged 75.

BEHAN   John, 48 Main St., Leixlip, died 11/6/1987 aged 33.

CANE   In loving memory of Eva, wife of Claude Cane of St Wolstan’s, married 1/3/1882, died 9/9/1914.

CLEMENTS   Henry died 6/8/1974 aged 75; Violet died 19/2/1980 aged 77; Kitty died 8/6/1991 aged 91; all of Killadoon.

COLGAN   In loving memory of Peter, Colwel, Templemills, Celbridge, died 23/6/1987 aged 82.  Erected by his wife and family.

COOGAN   Christopher died 12/5/1934 aged 78.

DELANEY   In loving memory of Thomas Delaney, Blakestown, Leixlip, died 20/11/194x, also his son Joe Delaney died 15/4/199 aged 49.

DONOVAN   John died 10/8/1974 aged 64. Green Lane, Leixlip

FINLAY   Lilian Maud, [nee Williams, Toll House, Leixlip] died 3/1/1969 aged 72  -  her husband John died 14/3/1974 aged 89 years  -  for 51 years land steward to Kirkpatrick family.

GALLIVAN   In memory of Thomas Gallivan, Hillford House, died May 1952.  Also his wife Patricia Gallivan died July 1958.

GALLIVAN   Michael Gallivan, MD, died 30/12/1935; Daniel died 10/8/1939; Sarah Jane died 1/2/1940; Maire died 31/1/1993; Bernard J. died 24/11/1975.

GROGAN   In loving memory of Catherine and Thomas.

KIRKPATRICK   Alexander Richard d. 17/2/1891 aged 77 and Catherine Louisa died 15/10/1910 aged 78  [and many more, and Thorold]   Richard Trench Kirkpatrick, Captain Leinster Regiment, killed in Uganda 26/11/1898 aged 33.

McNALLY   Annie died 25/11/1941 aged 66; her husband Nicholas died 2/12/1947 aged 73; their daughter Teresa (Terry) died 14/10/1977 and their daughter Margaret died 3/1/1986.

McGETTIGAN   In loving memory of John, died 11/4/1976.

MITCHELL   In loving memory of Bridget, died April 1974.

MOLYNEAUX   Elizabeth late of canal banks, Hazelhatch and Main Street, Celbridge, died 14/1/1972 aged 87.  Erected by her family

O’RIORDAIN   In memory of Sean P. D Litt MRIA, Newbridge Lodge, Celbridge, Professor of Archaeology UCD, died 11/4/1957.  Gabriel Hayes O’Riordain, artist, died 28/10/1978.

PIM   Vera died 18/1/1977, wife of Francis E., died 28/12/1981, Kilmacredock House, Leixlip.

RUDDLE   Rose Wilhelmina died 8/4/1963 aged 83  -  late of Weston Park, Leixlip.

SAUNDERS   Erected by James Saunders in loving memory of his father Charles Saunders, who died 25/7/1896 aged 89; his mother Catherine Saunders died 9/3/1906 aged 84; their son John died 26/12/1909 aged 45; their daughter Esther Canning died 5/2/1920 aged 69; their son William died 18/3/1922 aged 71.

SKERRETT  Maureen died 15/1/1988  -  Celbridge and Pimlico  -  husband Henry died 28/2/1999  -  erected by their daughter Teresa

TYNAN   Edward (Ned)  -  Cooldrinagh  20/2/1900 ~ 13/6/1986.

TYNDALL   Mat died 1950 aged 58.  His father Mathew died 1919 aged 59.

A turret or gazebo stood in Cooldrinagh lands overlooking the river and the place of a broken bridge, only one arch of which remained.

The Rye Water took the same general course to the north of the town and tumbled down to join the Liffey; its bed was nearer the land surface; it subdivided into several fingers in the Newtown area before descending to the confluence with the Liffey near the existing Boat House in Leixlip demesne.

A road from Ryevale House, then called Robertsville, after the first owner, Robert Lawe, Barrackmaster General of Ireland, crossed the Rye at what is now called Distillery Lane and a ‘Manufactory’ there, driven by water power, provided employment for men, women, and children as young as nine years in processing calico. Lawe, too, owned this.

James Smyth, a calico printer there, was a leading rebel in 1798. This road continued east towards St Catherine’s Park en route for Dublin on the north bank of the Liffey. The Boat House was not the folly it is today. The Rye Water was also divided to encircle the Island Farm to the rear of James Glascock’s Music Hall and residence, the remains of which continued until the Industrial Development Authority’s acquisition of Collinstown in the 1970s. Downstream of Distillery Lane and just up from the bridge over the Rye on Main Street, was another water-powered and ancient corn mill, whose workers lived in several small cabins alongside the Rye.

Ennis’s Mill on Rye

Facing Rye Cottage were residences of farmers, James Coogan and John Rowe (aka Roe) and another holding of Christopher Rowe, each under leases from 1794.

Rye Cottage Main Street

The miller lived in the three-storey, Mill House, currently French Estates, at the east corner of Buckley’s Lane.

Access to the Castle was by way of a road which ran through the burial ground in front of St Mary’s Church, then much as it is today and via a ford over the Rye to the foot of the hill to the front of the Castle.

However in 1783 the business of the town was flourishing prompting Lady Louisa Conolly to have a market house built in the yard in front of St Mary’s Church. The Church’s railings were added later, ~1840.  A humped-back bridge crossed the Rye at the end of the Main Street by 1793, quite near the beginning of Buckley’s Lane, then the entrance to Edward Bulkeley’s premises. Water from the Liffey reached up into what is now Maher’s Lane, almost to Main Street level. This was the town’s watering slip, for which slips the government provided encouragement. Horses and carts descended it to fill barrels with water for all purposes. Rye Cottage was as it is today, then in the possession of Mr John Whealon, distiller. There had been a slaughterhouse to the rear. Between Rye Cottage and the Rye Water, and forward to the street, was Eleanor Tankard’s ‘Bridge Tenement’, a very small square-sectioned cabin. It may have been a watch-house. The footprint of what is now Sam’s Chipper was much the same as it is today, complete with setback (20ft 6in deep by 8ft 6in wide) at the entrance to the lane; it was then rented to widow, Jane Herbert, and a ‘bakehouse’ operated there with a yard to rear. The house now known as the Glebe or Yellow House, then called Glynn’s tenement (probably after the builder of the Wonderful Barn), had been used as a residence by military officers attached to units garrisoned in the Castle.

Sir Richard Steele lived there. Steele was shot and injured at the battle of Ovidstown, near Maynooth, on 19/6/1798. Another military tenant of the place was Captain Douglass (1793) of the Argyle Fencibles. The Castle had been the home of Major General Robert Sandford, known as ‘Captain O’Blunder’, who had beautified the place. He died in 1793. He was long past his army career at this stage. During the turbulent times that immediately followed, he was succeeded by other military leaders, such as Major Brown. In 1808 the demesne lands were surveyed for Major Brown in a letting to Francis Thos Power, a clothing manufacturer. Power probably used what was later to be the parish hall as his factory where he made ladies clothes. Shortly before Sandford’s tenure it was used as a summer residence by Lord Townshend, the Viceroy, who returned to Ireland during the rebellion of 1798 as a soldier. A map made of the Castle for the landlord after Sandford’s death, showed far more buildings than thirty years later. The demesne lands were let to locals: Widow Cassidy, John Dalton, Neal, Murray, Coane, Coogan, etc.  Cassidy may have been the widow of a prominent Kildare Loyalist of the Rebellion period. A Michael Dalton held the ‘Swan Holding’; its whereabouts is unknown, but as it was worth over £25 pa, it was substantial. William Bruce, an established Dublin stationer, was leasing the ‘Salmon Leap Holding’, from Tom Conolly, the location indeterminate. A map attached to the lease is puzzling as the land doesn't seem to be near either the Inn or the river, but more in the Cedar Park/ Green Lane/ Station Road area of today. 

John Healy lived in a cottage at the junction of Old Hill and Station Road (within the curtilage of the later Hillford House); the Duke of Leinster and other turnpike commissioners met in his house on 5/2/1803 to discuss the compensation which might be payable to occupiers of premises on the route of the proposed new ‘bypass’ of the Old Hill.

Among those affected were Pearce Cassidy, Catherine Hynes, Denis Nowlan, Thomas Doonan, John Dalton, and yeoman, Nicholas Dempsey  A jury to assess the damages included Rodio Guinness, Mark Cannon and Thomas Goodshaw, all of Leixlip town; and William Rose, a Yeoman, of Collinstown. St Mary’s Church was the ‘established’ or State church and its vestry had oversight over some civilian matters, including law and order. A ‘Court Leet’, centred on the Castle, dealt with civil disputes. The ‘Papist’ or RC community worshipped in a small chapel hidden away on the banks of the Rye; it also served as a school and probably as a residence for the curate; Andrew Ennis, the parish priest, was shared with Maynooth.

The Dublin to Mullingar turnpike road had been open since 1732 or shortly afterwards. The Main Street at the end of the century was not dissimilar to today’s road. At the east end, Shingled House (then occupied by Charles – brewer -  and Anne Fellows, assigns of John Barton, brewer, a branch of whose family established themselves in the wine business in France) and Ivy House (then occupied by George, the earliest of the Fergusson doctors or ‘surgeons’) were about fifty years old. The Toll House on the bridge would have had its porch recently added, with iron-barred windows to the front and a padlocked pair of gates added outside, in recognition of the troubled times there were in it. These bars would have been made by the tenant, Peter Tannam, a blacksmith and farrier. Tannam, despite his occupation leading to a natural, strong suspicion of him as a maker of illicit weapons by the government forces, survived the rebellious period into the 1820s. A local yeoman, Nicholas Dempsey, stood guard by the Toll House porch. Across the bridge, the Salmon Leap Inn, had not long been rebuilt (probably after a fire); landlord, Tom Conolly, required it to be roofed in slates as a condition of the tenancy.

Salmon Leap Inn and Liffey Bridge c1760

The tenant at the turn of the century was ‘George Warner’s representatives’ (indicating that he was dead); however, Richard Guinness may have been the hands-on tenant at the time. Richard had continued working his more famous brother, Arthur Guinness’s first serious brewery, built in the then fashionable courtyard style, on the Main Street until the turn of the century. Water was supplied from wells now beneath the footpaths to the street. The Courtyard Hotel (est. 2005) includes the brewery buildings.  Richard Guinness lived in Castle View, a detached house on Main Street, later to be a barracks. He was compensated for losses of hay, cattle etc at Sallins in the Rebellion.
Cooldrinagh Lane was only recently opened up as a road, and the terrace of houses on the east side newly built. The remains of the old road to the New Bridge at Parsonstown on the south side of the Liffey was in place and used by Leixlip workers to go to and from the flax or corn mill on the Liffey, later to be Wookey’s flock mills.

Charles Croker, an attorney, lived a Croker Lodge, within Backweston Park, through whose lands the road traversed. Over at the corner of Mill Lane and Main Street (now EBS financial services) stood the ‘shoemaker’s tenement’, occupied by Christopher McGowan: it passed to his son, William, a cabinet-maker, in 1805.  Also in the vicinity of Mill Lane, including the north side of the street, were tenants John Downes and Widow Barry.

Deep down in Mill lane stood the Leixlip iron works, the only such in Co Kildare. It was run for some years by Daniel Marston (aka Marsden) until his death about 1798 at a comparatively young age. Was his death from natural causes, or a consequence of rebellion? A couple of Marston’s children had died in the preceding few years. He is said to have lived at St Catherine’s Park and was a man of considerable means. He is buried in St Mary’s churchyard; the table stone over his grave is now quite indecipherable.  His eldest son, Captain Molyneux Marston, succeeded him. The iron mills made spades, bar iron etc, and would be a prime suspect for the secret making of pike heads and other weapons. During this period iron was sometimes supplied to the landlord, Conolly, of Castletown House, in lieu of rent.

Adjoining it stood the corn mill in the tenancy of John McDaniel. For several decades now, both had shared one mill race, whereas hitherto there had been two. The Black Castle (ca 17c), probably at least a storey taller and with a basement below the current ground-floor, stood guarding the road to Dunboyne, now called Sileachán Lane.

There was a tendency in modern times for the Black Castle to be occupied by one of the millers working nearby. The Beere family, one of whom married a daughter of John Molyneaux (d1736), lived in Leixlip and early in the 19th century in this house. On 14/2/1798, the Irish House of Commons ordered that Daniel Beere, Deputy Pursuivant [= follower, attendant] of the court of the Exchequer, do attend at the Bar of this House forthwith. He was taken into custody, examined at the Bar and then discharged.   Oral tradition has it that the Black Castle was occupied in 1798 by the military and a gallows erected outside, perhaps as much for to terrorise the local peasants as for use.  On both sides of the Black Castle stood nine or ten two-roomed thatched cottages, one half for the use of iron workers and their families, the other for the corn mill workers.

The land behind and in front of the Black Castle was called Ashfield, suggesting a wood of ash trees  - just what was needed to make handles for pike weapons as well as innocuous cart wheels. Marshfield House was at the end of Mill Lane. It was occupied by Captain Thomas Atkinson, a military officer, who married Grace Alice Cane, aka Coane, daughter of a local clergyman.

The Black Avenue was in place and between it and Mill Lane, within the lands of Marshfield, was a man-made canal linked to the Liffey, and used as a fish store, a kind of refrigerator of the day for the occupiers of Marshfield.

The road continued on down to St Catherine’s Park, where a tall house stood, recently tenanted by the Earl of Lanesborough, but in 1792 occupied by David La Touche, of the Huguenot banking family.

It shortly thereafter burned to the ground and about 1798 a new house, also called St Catherine’s Park, was built in the same townland to the design of Francis Johnston; it is now Liffey Valley House Hotel. 

St Catherine's Park c.1792

It was later occupied by a succession of generals in the 19th century. Sentry boxes set against the demesne walls housed soldiers on security duty; they were red coats. Across the Liffey from St Catherine’s Park was Lucan Demesne, the seat of Agmondisham Vesey, Colonel of the Co Dublin Militia.

Sileachán Lane continued up to the Confey Road and onwards past the already ruined Confey Castle; the line of road continued past Confey Stud residence and on to Dunboyne.

On the left near the modern Glendale estate was a large farmhouse, Newtown Park. This was home to the Goodshaw family of farmers and millers; a daughter, Jane, married Richard Turner, the famous maker of wrought iron-framed glass houses.

The construction of the Royal Canal made its way across the north side of Leixlip, creating a cul de sac of Sileachán Lane thenceforth. Thousands of labourers and stonemasons worked on the construction of the Canal, particularly on the enormous engineering project of the day, the aqueduct which carried it across the Rye Water. They came from far and near and probably lived in the many small cottages which, fifty years later, were found to be ruined as Millicent man, Richard Griffith’s valuers assessed them for local tax purposes. Some would have dwelt in lodgings in the town and they, more than most, would have created a demand for market produce.

Leixlip House, on the Captain’s Hill, had been built ~45 years earlier as Gazebo Park William Brady, a trustee of the Turnpike, and was still occupied by him and his namesake son. General Brady received the arms of local men in an amnesty during the rebellion of 1798. The General died on 25/5/1800. Slightly further up the hill, a Queen-Anne-style house, Newtown Hill House, had transferred into the ownership of Guinness – probably Richard Guinness, the Leixlip brewer - as the previous owner, Miss Elizabeth Bryan, had commissioned a survey of her property at Newtown in 1796; this was usually done in readiness for a sale or lease. 

Newtown Hill House

A little further up, Newtown House, was in the control of Hamilton Rowan, the rebel leader, for papers instructing the distribution of arms were found a century later in the attic.

Leixlip’s Main Street was more or less as it appears today: The Mall terrace had been built by a speculative builder called Roecastle ~1785. Recent archaeological examinations within these houses revealed floors of regular, but small cobble stones about 0.8 metres beneath the internal floors in several of the houses, confirming that earlier houses, probably dating back to the Norman period, had been set much further back towards the sharp escarpment to the rear which encloses the town centre. This feature is crudely shown in a map of 1752. The terrace had earlier been called the Parade. ‘The Parade’ is redolent of ‘redcoats’, or kilted, gaelic-speaking Highlander soldiers, promenading themselves about this part of the town as a routine exercise, or whilst accompanying the gentry who dwelt in Leixlip Castle on their state visits, of which newspapers of the day attest.

The sites of the Mall houses extended originally down to the river, thus confirming that the houses on the south side of the Main Street were built not long after them, a tradition continued by contemporary developers in analogous situations! The Old Hill was then the main road to Maynooth and the west. During the Rebellion the Duke of Leinster’s daughters had to go that route to collect passes from the Castle; they passed the hanging body of a man called Byrne, bearing green ribbons, on a nearby tree. There were cottages on the west side of Old Hill from Pound Street to the junction with the Celbridge to Barnhall road, which had been built less than fifty years. Between the latter road and Green Lane was a race course in the tenancy of John Keegan, farmer. To its west were the ‘concerns’ of Michael Bartley, Thomas Burke, John and Bart Coogan and to the west, the concerns of Andrew Kelly and Charles Neill (aka Neal). Daniel Simmonds, for around 25 years secretary to the Turnpike Commissioners, lived at Collinstown House.

He owned the lands from his residence to Louisa Bridge, which had been newly built in 1794.

Simmonds was an attorney and practiced from Clare Street, Dublin. In 1804 he married a neighbour, Sarah Cooper, whose family had settled in Barnhall around 1756, and later lived at Easton House. 

 John Eston Simmonds (Easton House) and William Donnellan (Ravensdale House) were officers in the Leixlip volunteer cavalry at the time.

Many troops of one kind or another were billeted in the town, most likely in Leixlip Castle, which had accommodation of over double that of today. They were also billeted in the Black Castle on Mill Lane. Government troops billeted at Leixlip include those who featured in a defeat at Castlebar; the battle was known as the ‘Castlebar Races’. These troops wed local women, who had children by them. They were married by the Vicar, Edward Berwick, son of the 2nd Duke of Berwick; the first Duke fought for King James at the Battle of the Boyne. The parish register at St Mary’s Church records them:

Marriages
Arthur Williams, Private, Kilkenny Militia & Christiana Fowlkes of Leixlip, Spinster (5/2/1799). Joseph Hewen, Esq, Captain, Angus Fencibles & Eliza-Ann Guinness of Leixlip, Spinster (13/7/1799). Nathaniel Brady, Private, Londonderry Militia & Ann Magrath of Leixlip, Spinster (18/10/1799). John Downing Nesbit, Esq, of Tober Daly, Kings County, Captain, Londonderry Militia & Jane Brady of Leixlip, Spinster (16/1/1800). William Cowper, Private, Aberdeenshire Fencibles, & Martha Frazer of Leixlip, Spinster (1/3/1801). Henry Kerr, Musician, Aberdeenshire Fencibles & Mary Johnston, daughter of Sergt Johnston, 3d Regiment, Spinster (3/5/1801). William Dow, Private, Aberdeenshire Fencibles, & Frances White of Lucan, Spinster (25/10/1801). Thomas Barker, Private, Aberdeenshire Fencibles, & Catharine Brennan of Leixlip, Spinster (13/12/1801). John Hutchinson, Private, Aberdeenshire Fencibles, & Teresa Kelly of Leixlip, Spinster, (27/12/1801). Alexander Shanock, Private, Aberdeenshire Fencibles, & Sarah Downey of Leixlip, Spinster (17/1/1802). John Story, Private, Aberdeenshire Fencibles, & Frances Cassidy Leixlip, Spinster. Thomas Jump, Private, Aberdeen Fencibles, & Honora Mealy of Lucan, Spinster. (20/4/1802). William Owen, Esq, Lieutenant, 67th Regiment of Foot, & Matilda Guinness of Leixlip, Spinster (17/2/1803). Thomas Davis, Private, Antrim Militia, & Margaret Doherty of Leixlip, Spinster (8/2/1807). Robert Kinly, Private, Antrim Militia, & Margaret Martin, Leixlip, Spinster (29/3/1807). William Jones of Radnnshire Militia, Private, & Anne Corrigan of Leixlip, Spinster (22/11/1802). Henry Sullivan of Dublin County Militia to Eliza Ward of Leixlip (18/2/1818).

Deaths
On 6/10/1797, a Soldier. On 23/10/1797, a Soldier. On 30/11/1799, Sergeant Downing, Londonderry Militia, Leixlip. On 1/12/1799, Sergeant Pollock Londonderry Militia, Leixlip. On 28/5/1800, General William Brady. On 19/1/1814, Lieutenant O’Mally’s child. On 24/11/1820, Philip Lorance [sic], County Dublin Militia. On 26/1/1821, Sergeant Boyce, County Dublin Militia. On 9/12/1821, Captain Charles Baugh Hill. On 16/3/1823, Captain Hackett’s child [He lived in Music Hall.] Captain Burke died on the 1st and was buried on the 3d of July 1835.

Births or Baptisms
Lucy, dau of Capt Thomas & Eliza Woods, 12th Easter, 1782. Helen, dau of James Dougherty, artillery soldier, Leixlip, 7/9/1783. Eleanor, dau of James & Mary Dogherty, Leixlip, 3/6/1787. Letitia, dau of Prime Sergeant Fitzgerald, Lucan, 10/8/1788. John, son of Andrew Molloy, 47th Regt, Private, Lucan, 19/10/1788. Mary, dau of James & Mary Dogherty, Lucan, 15/8/1792. Anne Louisa, dau of Robert & Celia Mayne, soldier in Fermanagh Militia, born 3/12/1797. John, son of Andrew & Margaret Hamilton, private in the Fermanagh Militia, born Leixlip, 15/3/1798.  James, son of Matthew & Bridget Johnston, private in the Fermanagh Militia, born 17/4/1798. Elizabeth, dau of William & Joanna Brimner, surgeon, Duke of York’s Highlanders, born 17/6/1798.  Margaret, dau of Robert & Mary Sarsen, private, Kilkenny Militia, born 31/10/1798.  James, son of James & Elizabeth Lewis, private, Kilkenny Militia, born 30/11/1798.  Francis, son of Samuel & Sarah Townshend, Private, Londonderry Militia, born 7/4/1799.  William, son of William & Eliza McAulay, Private, Londonderry Militia, born 11/4/1799.  Samuel, son of William & Bridget Moffit, Private, Londonderry Militia, born 23/5/1799.  Mary, dau of Dougall & Hannah Clarke, Private, Angus Fencibles, born 12/9/1799.  Jane, dau of Walter & Margaret McFarland, Private, Londonderry Militia, born 17/9/1799.  Elizabeth, dau of George & Margaret May, Private, Londonderry Militia, born 29/9/1799.  Harriet, daughter of Major & Lady Colthurst Grey, 41st Regt, born 25/10/1799.  Margaret, dau of Barnaby & Mary McAlpine, Private, Londonderry Militia, born 23/11/1799.  Hugh, son of Hugh & Ann Harton, Corporal, Londonderry Militia, born 5/12/1799.  Juliana, dau of Arthur & Christian Williams, Private Kilkenny Militia, born 7/12/1799.  Catharine, dau of John & Jane Ferguson, Lieutenant, Angusshire Fencibles, born 21/1/1799.  James, son of George & Elizabeth Dickson, Private Angusshire Fencibles, born 21/12/1799. 
 

For more information on Sandford, Major General Robert, MP, of Leixlip;  Dempsey, Yeoman Nicholas and Lord Edward FitzGerald; Fergusson family; Salmon Leap Inn; Leixlip Castle see John Colgan, Leixlip, County Kildare, Leixlip, 2005.  Email: johncolgan at iol.ie

John Colgan.

The pair of cataracts called Salmon Leap, once a famous tourist attraction, is now gone from view following the installation of a hydroelectric power station in the mid-1940s by the Electricity Supply Board. This event typifies Leixlip history: it has been hit by waves of industrial development. Industrial, and more recently, great residential development has presented challenges for the town’s statutory body and for voluntary groups like the Leixlip Tidy Town Association.

Being close to the capital, Leixlip became a resting place for middle classes and gentry. Having extensive water power, various forms of mills were established: corn, iron, paper, flax, flock, linen-printing and lastly saw mills; these and agriculture provided employment.

The town’s village-centred, built-infrastructure was mostly completed by 1820 and remains essentially thus today, despite the ravages of incessant and frequently insensitive shopping and commercial development this past 40 years.

The terrace of eight houses at the Mall (formerly called The Parade), Main St, Leixlip, which remain substantially unchanged in appearance since they were speculatively built about 1785. (From a watercolour by Janet Colgan)

About 1969 there commenced the construction of large housing schemes, drawing commuting residents, many from the west of Ireland, to live in Leixlip. Water and access to Dublin remain the key advantages to business. This lead to the Intel Corporation establishing its largest factory outside the USA here, with all the ramifications of that for construction traffic, commuters, expanded fresh and waste water pipe-works etc. Hewlett Packard, too, has set up a manufacturing and banking business on the southwest of the town. Together they generate a very substantial portion of the rates’ revenue in County Kildare.  During this interval the housing stock and population rose to around 5,500 homes (from 400) and around 16,000 residents (from c1,000, and taking account of parts of adjoining areas within our remit). Many thousands commute here every day and some 60 per cent of employed Leixlipians commute daily – mostly to Dublin.

Leixlip Tidy Town Association (LTTA) was founded in 1963 by community members, lead by Colonel Niall Mac Neill, resident and retired head of the Ordnance Survey. At this time an existing historical society created awareness of a need to conserve the historic buildings and natural beauty of the town, such as Leixlip Spa (discovered in 1793). In 1970 the Association fostered the establishment of a Community Council to secure amenities and to moderate excessive, imbalanced, development. This later led to the establishment of a Town Council in 1988. However, the town council has negligible power; planning and other decisions are made remotely in the county town of Naas, which is accessible by circuitous routes and very inconveniently by public transport.

Leixlip has managed to retain some of its historic buildings and structures: the Castle of Leixlip, overlooking the confluence of the Rye and Liffey; the Black Castle tower house, albeit scarcely recognisable as such now, which overlooks the old road from Dunboyne to Leixlip; the ruin of the Eustace’s Confey Castle which overlooks the same road; an ancient encirclement and probably prehistoric farm nearby (from which word Confey derives its name); the World Heritage feature, the eccentric Wonderful Barn and its pair of pigeon houses at Barnhall townland; St Mary’s Church on Main Street; the Toll House on the bridge of Leixlip; two 18th century generals’ houses, Leixlip House and St Catherine’s Park, and the remains of a courtyard brewery operated by Richard Guinness, brother of the famous Arthur Guinness.

Aerial view of Leixlip Castle (~1200), with hydroelectric power station and water works in the background

Originally called Gazebo Park, after the gazebo which allowed the privileged to look over the Liffey below, Leixlip house was built by William Brady, an army officer, who received the arms of local rebels in an amnesty during the Rebellion of 1798. It is now a small hotel of the same name.


The clock tower on St Mary's Church, Main Street, was built in Norman times and was used as a priest's residence
 

The bridge of Leixlip built 1732-4 by the Dublin to Kinnegad Turnpike Commissioners and the Bridge or Toll House from the same period. It is the only Irish bridge pre-railway era known to have stonemasons' marks on it.


Wonderful Barn - A World Heritage site: the grain magazine on five storeys built by John Glinn in 1743 at Barnhall, Leixlip after the year of the Great Frost

The graveyard within the curtilage of St. Mary's Church (of Ireland, Episcopalian) served the wider Leixlip community, without reference to religious denomination, for many centuries. This community extended from Lucan on the east, to St Catherine's on the north east, to Confey on the north, to Barnhall and Parsonstown on the west, to Westonpark and Cooldrinagh on the south; it straddled the river Liffey and included parts of Counties Kildare and Dublin. St. Mary's graveyard is complemented by graveyards at Confey - both old and modern - just north of Leixlip town, Donaghcumper near Celbridge to the southwest, Donoughmore near Pike's Bridge to the west and Esker cemetery to the east in Lucan.

St Mary's graveyard is now virtually full and contemporary Leixlip burials - apart from cremations - are usually to the modern cemetery at Confey. The parish records of burials to St Mary's extend from 1668 to today. Unfortunately, substantial gaps exist in the years for which records are available; for example, during the period, 1668 to 1777, there are no entries in 44 of the years. There are smaller gaps in the data for the 19th century records.

The gravestone inscriptions in St Mary's graveyard provide additional information about Leixlip burials and sometimes about the burials elsewhere of persons related to those buried at Leixlip. This information is additional in two senses: it augments the rudimentary information in the Church's burial records about individuals cited there and, secondly, it occasionally provides information about burials in St Mary's for which there is no local written record extant.

=========
ALLEN Here lieth the body of Martin Allen who departeth this life March ye 24th 1745 - aged 50 years - and 6 of his children

BALDING Dorothy Balding, wife of Arthur Balding of Collinstown and daughter of W.T. Chamberlane of Stoney Thorpe, Warwickshire, died December 20th 1918, age 38

BEAUCHAMP In loving memory of Jane Beauchamp who died May 16th 1890 - aged 80 - also Anna McCheane - born June 6th 1810 - died November 8th 1893

BEERE This stone belongs to Geo. Beere and his Posterity. Here lyeth the body of John Molyneaux who died March 7th 1736, with 2 of his grandchildren William and Susan Beere 1751

BELAS In loving memory of George Henry Belas of Newbridge Cottage, Celbridge, who died in New York, 9th of February, 1881 aged 29 years. [wall plate]

BETSON (Stone built into wall of Church) Here lieth the body of Mr. Thomas Betson who deceased the 15th day of March 1707 - His wife Agnes Betson alias Knolls caused this vault to be made for their Posterity

BOWEN-MILLER In memory of Elizabeth Mira Bowen-Miller, who died at Milford, Co. Mayo, 14th January 1886, daughter of General Irwin, St. Catherine's Park. Erected in loving remembrance by her mother, brother and sisters. [wall plate in chancel]

BRADY Here lyeth the remains of Maria Anne Brady who died about the year 1772 - Aged 17 years - Also General William Brady who died 28th day of May 1800 - Also Miss Francis Nesbitt, December 22nd 1805 - Also James Nesbitt, Jan. 12th 1808 - Also Gifford Nesbitt, Oct. 26th 1810 - Also Miss Elizabeth Brady, 1818 - Also John Nesbitt, 1828

BRUCE This stone was erected by W. Bruce of Leixlip - Here lieth the body of his Father-in-law Mr Geo. Walker, grandson of the Rev. Geo. Walker, Governor of L'Derry when besieged in 1689 - Died 26th Oct. 1769 - Also the body of Mrs. Celia Walker, his wife, died 6th Sept. 1776 - Also the body of Mrs. Jane Bruce wife of said Will Bruce - died 7th Jany. 1781

BYRNE Erected by Denis Byrne in memory of his son Thomas who departed this life Oct. 18th 1808 aged 13 years. He lived beloved and died regreated [sic] by all who knew him

BYRNE In loving memory of John Byrne, Easton Road, Leixlip - died 10th Feb. 1983 - His wife Mary died 25th July 1986 - also remembering John's parents

CAVENDISH Sacred to the memory of Catherine Lucy, wife of the Hon. George Cavendish who died on the 18th of June 1845 in the 58th year of her age and in the 38th year of her marriage. [wall plate in chancel]

CAVENDISH To the memory of Letitia Catherine Cavendish, wife of the Hon. George Cavendish, died 3rd of July, 1805, aged 20 years...... [wall plate in chancel]

CHAPLIN In memory of E. Alice Maud Chaplin, daughter of General Irwin and wife of General Frank Chaplin, who died at Brighton, December 23rd, 1908 [wall plate in chancel]

CLARE Here lyeth the body of Joshua Clare who departeth this life May 9th 1719 - Aged 38 years - Also Catherine Hallian alias Clare who departeth this life April 19th 1744 aged 29 years.

COOGAN Erected by William Coogan of Leixlip to the memory of his beloved wife Mary Coogan alias Beille who departed this life 26th of Aug. 1824 - Aged 40 years - Also two of his children who died young - And his daughter Mary Coogan who died 29th Aug. 1825 - Aged 19 years - Also his beloved son Thomas Coogan who departed this life 5th Nov. 1858 aged 44 years - And also his beloved son John Coogan who departed this life 1860 aged 51 years - Here also are interred the mortal remains of the above William Coogan who departed this life 16th Decr. 1868 - aged 75

COOGAN In memory of Eliza Coogan - died 7th March 1890 aged 73 years - Bridget Coogan died 22nd Jany. 1853 - aged 66 years - John Coogan her husband died 10th Dec. 1882 aged 96 years - Elesia Keegan who died 31 march 1883 aged 73 years - And John Keegan her husband died 10th April 1886 aged 70 - Mary Coogan died 9th Feb. 1900 - aged 75

COOPER Here lieth ye body of John Cooper of City of Dublin - Eldest son of Joseph Cooper of Barnhall who departed this life 4th Dec. 1785 - Aged 36

COOPER To the memory of Joseph Cooper of Barnhall in the Co. of Kildare who died 2nd July 1786 aged 84 - and Hannah Euphemia Cooper his wife who died 27th Jan. 1786 aged 64 and their children - Henry who died 17th Nov. 1773 aged 20 - & Sarah who died 18th April 1769 aged 15 - And also to the memory of Henry Delamain of the City of Dublin - Father of above Hannah Euph. Cooper who died 1st Dec. 1780 aged 93 - and Sarah Delamain alias Steele - his wife who died 16th Oct. 1760 - aged 79

COOPER Here lie the bodies of Jonathan Sisson Cooper Esq. and Anne Maria his wife - he for many years faithfully fulfilled the duties of Comptroller General of Stamps in Ireland - and died Nov. 18th 1830 - Aged 73 years - She died Dec. 10th 1832 - Aged 73 years

COOPER In memory of Everina Jane Cooper the beloved daughter of Robert Cooper Esq. of Collinstown, Leixlip, who departed this life on the 18th Nov. 1871 - Aged 32

COOPER In memory of Robert Cooper Esq. of Collinstown, Leixlip, Co. Kildare - died Jany. 25th 1880 - Aged 59 years - Also in loving memory of Mary wife of the above Robert Cooper died February 7th 1907

(The headstones of Everina Jane Cooper and Robert Cooper enclosed in the one plot and the remaining Cooper graves are contiguous and co-linear).

CORMACK Patrick Cormack died 22nd March 1913 - His wife Marianne (nee Ryan) died 13th February 1922 - their children: Jenny, died 3rd March 1932 - her husband Christopher McLoughlin, died 24th March 1969 - Bridget, died 22nd may 1962 - Mary died 17th February 1974 - David, died 5th September 1969 - David's wife, Julia (nee Burke) died 3rd April 1969 - Patrick, died 10th April 1958 (buried in Esker) and John J. died 30th September 1980 (buried in Confey)

CULLEN This stone and burial place belong to Lawrence Cullen of Leixlip and his Posterity - Here lyeth the body of Lawrence Cullen - 30th March 1773 - aged 32

DALGETY In loving memory of Alexander George Dalgety of Rye Vale Leixlip, who departed this life, 30th August, 1956, aged 85 years [wall plate in Church erected by his wife, Nancy]
DALTON Erected by her children to the memory of Bridget Dalton of Leixlip, who died 29th Oct. 1878 aged 62 years - also their beloved father Gerald Dalton who died 3rd Jany. 1874 aged 26 years - also Christopher Durkin who died 17th July 1920 aged 39 years - Charles Edwin Wardell who died 19th May 1949 [On the rear:] As a filial tribute of respect by M Anastasia Crosbey [sic] of Leixlip in memory of her beloved husband Francis Crosby who departed this life 28th August 1876 aged 33 yrs - also their daughter Mary B. Wardell who died 23rd Jan. 1964 aged 95 years

(Dalton, Jacob and Wogan headstones within the same burial plot)
DANFORD George Danford, beloved husband of Margaret Danford, Newtown House, Leixlip, who fell asleep, June 24th 1914, aged 40 years - Also his sister Sara, widow of James Hamilton of Waterford and Sligo, who died September 6th 1954

DONAGH As a final tribute of filial affection this stone was erected by James Donagh of Crumlin, Co. Dublin in memory of his beloved father James Donagh who departed this life - 8th day of March 1785 in the 40th year of his age - Here rest five of his children who died young - And of Mrs Alicia Donagh daughter of the above James - who died 31st October 1835 - aged 60 years - Also his beloved wife Anne who departed this life 10 Nov. 1837 aged 88 years

DONAGH This stone was erected by Mr. James Donagh of Walkinstown, Co. Dublin in memory of his wife Mrs. Anne Donagh who died 12th June 1813 - Aged 28 years - she was a good Christian: a tender parent - an affectionate wife - a sincere friend and a mother to the poor - Here also are interred the mortal remains of above James Donagh who dept. this life 19th Oct. 1821 - Aged 40 years - Mary Donagh of Bluebell died the 11th January 1895 - Aged 77 years.

DONAGH Erected by John Donagh of Bluebell, Co. Dublin to the memory of his beloved mother Catherine who dept. this life 22nd August 1814 aged 36 - And of his brother Nicholas who died 2nd Feb. 1827 aged 25 years - Also his affect. father John Donagh who died 25th Dec. 1844 in the 76th year of his age - and his beloved brother Thomas who died 24th Jan. 1874 aged 75 years - Also Anne Donagh daughter of above Thomas died April 1st 1909 aged 50

DORAN In loving memory of Edward J. Doran - who died 9th May 1923 aged 52 years - erected by his loving wife and son - Also Kathleen Doran - died 17th Jan. 1951 - Mary Therese Doran - died 26th April 1936 - aged 2 months - Elizabeth Doran - died 6th August 1959

DURKIN John Durkin died 28th February 1948 - his dear wife Louisa Durkin -died 30th April 1923 - and their daughter Frances Durkin died 26th November 1941 - also Richard Durkin died 19th September 1952 --- and Walter Durkin P.C. - died 17 May 1954 - Erected at the request of Walter Durkin P.C.

DWEN Erected to the memory of John Dwen, who departed this life January 19th 1838 aged 60 years - Also his wife Anne Dwen, who departed this life August the 5th 1847 age 66

EDWARDS This burial place belongs to Edmond Edwards and his Posterity - 1733 - Here lyeth ye body of said Edmond Edwards who deceased February ye 26th 1734 aged 78 years

EXLEY In loving memory of Sarah Ann Millett Exley - who fell asleep November 3rd 1895 - Also her husband Edmund Exley - July 21st 1912 and her son - George William Millett - October 6th 1954 - Also Martha Jane - second wife of Edmund Exley - October 1925 - and Gertrude Mary Randell Coombes - youngest child of Edmund and Sarah - April 2nd 1970

FARRELL Erected by James Farrell, Leixlip, in memory of his beloved wife Margaret who died Dec. 3rd 1927 - Aged 82 years - James Farrell died 26th July 1929 - Their granddaughter Kitty Maher, Main Street, Leixlip, died 7th April 1982 aged 81 years

FARRELL Matthew died 3rd Nov. 1933 - His wife Margaret died 14th Feb. 1953 - Their daughter Annie died 22nd April 1944 - Their son-in-law John Ashe died 1st November 1965 - his daughter Carmel died 25th August 1943 - James Farrell died 6th May 1973 - Kathleen Ashe died 14th Feb. 1980 - Margaret Farrell died 28th Sept. 1980

FEGAN This stone was erected by Alice Fegan - in loving memory of her dear husband Thomas Fegan - who died the 10th of September 1899 - aged 67 years - Also the above Alice Fegan, died 30th July 1920

FERGUSSON To the memory of William Fergusson Esq. M.D. of Leixlip who dept. this life 29th May 1855 in the 70th year of his age - Universally regretted in the neighbourhood where he spent his entire life - This stone was erected by his niece

FLAGG To the memory of Marie Windrim Flagg of Philadelphia, U.S.A. and Leixlip House - beloved wife of Edward Saunderson Nugent Head - who died 17 March 1965

FOUKS Here lieth the body of John Fouks of Dobtstowne in the County of Kildare, Gent., who departed this life the 7th day of July 1711. [in floor of nave]

GOODSHAW Here lieth the body of Thomas Goodshaw Esq. late of Leixlip who died 29th Dec. 1770 aged 58 years - And his wife Jane who died 7th Aug. 1781 aged 66 years - Also their son Thomas Goodshaw died 8th August 1803 aged 50 - And the following members of his family - Anne, Jane, Mary, Bessie and Walter

GOODSHAW Here lieth the body of Eliza. wife of Thomas Goodshaw who died 15th October 1829 and her sons Thomas who died 6th May 1833 and William who died 19th April 1828 - Also his wife Mary who died 13th February 1835 - John died 26th April 1829 and James died 27th September 1851 aged 54 years, whose wife Margaret died 24th December 1885 aged 76 years and is buried in the family burial place of her father John Bucanan in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral

(Note both Goodshaw headstones, and those of Johnson, and Richard Turner are enclosed within the same burial plot. Note that alternative sources put the years of William's and John's deaths at 1838 and 1839 respectively).

GRAHAM Here lieth the body of Mary Graham - late of Finstown - who departed this life April ye 1st 1790 - aged 12 years - Erected by John Graham

GROGAN In loving memory of our dear parents Jane Grogan, died 28th March 1947 - Christopher Grogan died 16th November 1963 - Also Christopher, Jane and Francis McLoughlin

HACKETT Sacred to the memory of Pierce Hackett Esq. of Music Hall in this Parish who departed this life the 28th June 1829 aged 74 years. Also his eldest son Michael who departed this life the 9th Nov. 1855 aged 77 years - Also the remains of John Hackett Vice-Admiral who died the 6th March 1865 aged 80 years - Also of Julia Anne Hackett daughter of the above who died June 13th 1870 aged 40 years - Also of Tabatha [?] Julia Hackett wife of John Hackett who died Sept. 2rd 1874 aged 79 years

HAMILL This is erected here by the Rev. Henry Stewart and his wife Anna Matilda Stewart to commemorate the death of their dearly beloved sister Frances Maria Hamill who.. died 28th November 1868. [wall tablet, chancel]

HARRISON In memory of Lancelot Harrison who died the 16th day of January 1820 aged 45 years - Margaret wife of Lancelot Harrison died 30th January 1862 aged 79 years - James his son died 10th April 1818 aged 5 months - Mary their dau. died 31st March 1820 aged 11 months - William Brownrigg died 26th day January 1820 aged 35 years

HARTE In loving memory of Alexander Harte, died 20th of February 1942, age 79 years - also his wife Frances Jane, died 17th June 1965, age 88 years - their son Robert, died 10th October 1911, aged 3 1/2 years - Their son Alec, twin of Robert, died 12th June 1983 age 75 years

HEWSON In loving memory of Thomas Hewson - also his wife Anne and their family of Leixlip - Erected by their son George and daughter Nellie 1950

HEWSON Beneath this stone waiting for the Resurrection to Life lie the mortal remains of Margaret Maria Hewson - only daughter of the Rev. Francis Hewson - sometime Rector of Kilgobbin, Co. Kerry - She fell asleep in Jesus the 12th day March 1869 in her 82nd year - Her nieces E.J. & Katherine Hewson have placed this stone as a memorial of the great live they owed to her

HILL Sacred to the memory of Charles Baugh Hill Esq. Capt. in the Londonderry Regt. of Militia, who died 6th Dec. 1821 aged 42 years - His [?] strict principles of honor and enduring integrity, Duty discharged with zeal... and impartiality, consumate --- is lost [etc. more tributes] - This tribute of affection is erected by his widow - Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Hill widow of Charles B. Hill - who departed this life the 10th April 1853 [a tribute follows]

HODSON This burial place belongs to John Hodson and his Posterity. Underneath lies the body of his father Henry Hodson who died June ye 4th 1749 aged 66 years

HYNES In memory of Charles Hynes died 2nd Oct. 1960 aged 86 yrs. - Also his wife Mary died 9th Jan. 1962 aged 81 yrs. His son Christopher died 21st March 1942 aged 27 yrs. - and brother Philip died 21st May 1963 aged 84 yrs. - his wife Elizabeth died 19th June 1974 aged 88 years. - Charles Hynes died 8th May 1996 aged 86 years

IRELAND Silvia Ada Ireland, died 2nd of January 1894 aged 29 - also of her father Stephen Bomford Coates and her sister, Clara H. Coates - Clara Isabella Wallace Ireland - March 1965

IRWIN In memory of General William Irwin - Col. Connaught Rangers - died 22 Dec. 1889 aged 79 years - also of his wife Eliza Jane Irwin - died August 24th 1916 aged 97 years

JACOB Erected by Mrs. Bridget Jacob in memory of her beloved husband Isaac Jacob who died 17th June 1896 aged 42 years. Also their children Henry, Anastasia and John who died young. And the above named Mrs. Bridget Jacob who died 23rd November 1898 aged 48 years. Also their son Gerald who died 1st March 1916 aged 40 years. [On the rear:] Joseph Gaynor, husband of Rose Jacob, died 8th July 1947 - also his beloved wife Rose (nee Jacob) died 18th May 1894 aged 83 years.

JOHNSON Here lie the remains of Thomas and Bessie Johnson of Cooldrinagh, Leixlip, who departed this life - the former on June 17th 1874 and the latter June 4th 1865

JUDSON In memory of Joseph Judson who departed this life 18th September 1852 aged 82 years - His beloved wife Maria Judson died 28th Feb. 1874 aged 84 years - Also Vincent Judson died 14th July 1914 aged 84 years

KANE This stone is erected by William Kane of Leinster St., Dublin for him and Posterity - His daughter Margaret aged 11 months died January 29th 1807

KELLY This stone was erected by Daniel Kelly - merchant of Merchant's Quay in the City of Dublin for him and his Posterity and in memory of his beloved wife Mary Kelly daughter of Walter Burke Esq. of Galway - who departed this life the third May 1809 in the [?] year of her age - Also their son Robert aged 5 years

KING Here lie the remains of Charles Lewis King of Newtown House, Leixlip, a most exemplary husband and father who died March 7th 1869 - Stone erected by his wife

LaBARTE In loving memory of E. Francillon Labarte - died 15 November 1899 - aged 79 years - Erected by her son E. Heron LaBarte

LATCHFORD This stone is erected here by Thomas Latchford - who is son to John and grandson to Thomas Latchford - whose bodies lie here - Here lies Catherine wife of above Thomas - who departed this life the 8th March 1756 - Aged 46 years - and their six children

LAURENCE In loving memory of Edward Laurence - died 29th April 1933 aged 76 yrs. - also his wife Ann - died 21st December 1946 - aged 88 yrs. - and their son Robert - died 21st June 1927 - aged 37 years - and their daughters Kathleen - died 13th November 1956 - Elizabeth died 16th March 1980 - Ann (Nancy) died 29th July 1980 - Mary died 4th February 1981

LAWE Sacred to the memory of Alexr. Lawe Esq. who died the 8th Jan. 1850 aged 79 years. The remains of his revered father, Robt. Lawe Esq., of his mother Martha Wrightson are also reposed here - both aged 79. This memorial was erected in memory and out of respect of Alexr. Lawe by his affectionate wife

MAHER In loving memory of Edward Maher, died 9th September 1931 - his wife Mary died 3rd February 1945 - Their son Patrick died 19th August 1958 and daughter Mary McLoughlin died February 1933 - Their son John died 9th January 1944 - Joseph beloved husband of Mary McLoughlin died 9th July 1976

MARSTON Here lieth the body of Ann Marston Spinst of the city of Dublin daughter of Thomas and Hannah Marston of ....illenhall in ......

[MARSTON Leixlip. St Mary's Register of Deaths records burials of Miss Sarah Marston, Leixlip on 25th January 1781 and Mr Marston's child on 9th January 1782.]

McCHEANE See Beauchamp

McCULLOUGH This stone was erected by James McCullough in memory of his wife Mary McCullough who departed this life Jany. ye 9th 1794 aged 52 years

McDANIEL [Half of broken stone] ... here lieth the body of his son Alexander [?] McDaniel who died January. 5th 1774 aged 5 years

McGLEW In loving memory of our dear sister Mary McGlew - died 11th May 1967 - and our dear niece, Anne Nolan died 18th August 1949

McGRANE In loving memory of Mary McGrane (nee Leech) died 6th May 1945 aged 76 years - her daughters Elizabeth McGrane - died 10th November 1984 - aged 84 years - Ita McGrane died 14th February 1993 aged 84 years

McMURRAY To the memory of John McMurray of Leixlip who died April 27th 1790 aged 74 - Here also the remains of his son Mr. Samuel McMurray who departed this life 30th October 1822 aged 59 years

MERRIGAN In loving memory of Mary Merrigan - died 9th May 1941 - and her sons Bartholomew - died 1st September 1946 - William died 6th April 1971

MOLLOY As a tribute of respect by her disconsolate parents to the memory of Harriet Jane Molloy who departed this life 7th September 1840 aged 3 - A lovely and engaging child.

MOLYNEAUX Here lyeth the body of Daniel Molyneaux of Dublin who departed this life 16th March .... aged ..... also Elizabeth M .....

MOORE This stone and burial place belongeth unto Willm. Moore and his posterity - Here lyeth body of ye William Moore who deceased 26th Oct. 1727 aged 41

MOULTON In loving memory of William Moulton - died 3rd [?] Dec. 1920 aged 54 - and his dear wife Maria Moulton died 9th January 1955 aged 79

MULLIGAN In loving memory of our dear parents, Thomas Mulligan, died 28th April 1978, aged 74 years - Elizabeth Mulligan died 10th September 1988 aged 81 years - late of 50 Buckleys Lane, Leixlip. - Erected by Johnny & Nellie

NOLAN In loving memory of our dear mother, Ann Nolan, died 2nd April 1940 - and father, John Nolan, died 1st April 1948 - and uncle, Michael Ryan, died 26th March 1963 - Their daughter Catherine died 23rd April 1988

NORRIS To the memory of Frances Elizabeth Norris - daughter of Francis B. Norris Esq. and Elizabeth Jane ....died..... 1855 aged .....

O'HARA Erected by the children of John O'Hara who died 11 Nov. 1895 aged 90 yrs. - His wife Catherine O'Hara died 21 March 1899 aged 77 yrs. - and Fannie the daughter died 15th July 1922 aged 67 years

PIGGOTT Lucie Henrietta Piggott, died June 17 1894 age 80
Lucy Martha Piggott, died June 11 1894 age 36
Jean Sophia Piggott, who fell asleep October 12 1882
William Wellesley Pole Piggott, died June 25th 1886

PRESTAGE This stone was erected by Mrs. Ann Prestage in memy. of her beloved husband Richard Prestage who died 9 April ......

PRICE This stone was erected by Lieut. John Price for him and posterity A.D. 1737 - Here lyeth the body of Sarah Price alias Foster wife to Lieut. John Price - She departed this life 9th day of July A.D. 1737 in the 45th year of her age - Here lieth the body of the above Lieut. John Price who departed this life Nov. 30th 1744 in the 63rd year of his age

PRICE Sacred to the memory of Emma wife of William Price late of Lymage, Co. Kent, who departed this life 16th July 1865 aged 69 years - Also to above William who died 12th August 1865 aged 75 years

PRICE Here are deposited the remains of Dr. Arthur Price, Lord Archbishop of Cashell, who died the 17th of July 1752, aged 74 [in floor of nave]

QUIN This stone was erected by Chas. Quin of Lucan in memory of his beloved father James Quin who departed this life Oct. 27th 1790 aged 50 years. Also his brother Andrew Quin who departed this life May 19th 1794 - Aged 4 years

REILLY This stone was erected ... Margrat Reilly alias Oharah [sic] for husband Philip Reilly who departed this life March ye 4, 1741 aged 33 [or 83?] years

RICHARDSON This stone erected by John Richardson of Esker in memory of his mother, brother and sisters. Here lieth the body of Catherine Richardson who departed this life June 30th 1784 - aged 40 - Also the body of Joseph Richardson who departed August 21st 1788 - Aged 38 yrs. and Elizabeth Richardson who dept. April 4th 1792 - Aged 37 years - Here also lieth the body of Rosanna Richardson mother to above who departed July 14th 1792 aged 78

ROBINSON Sacred to the memory of James Robinson of Leixlip, Carpenter, who departed this life Feb. 11th 1780, aged 60 years - Here lies several of his children who died young

ROBINSON James Robinson died 20th June 1799 aged 36 years - also Mrs. Eliza Robinson, wife of the above mentioned James - she died March 1803 - much regretted - aged 73 years

ROBINSON William Robinson, 7 years Sexton of Leixlip Church, died 6th of February 1897 - Erected by the parishioners as a mark of their respect

ROE This stone belongeth to Walter Roe and his posterity. Here lieth the body of the above Walter Roe who departed this life May ye 26th anno 1749 age 37 years

ROGERS Lionel Foott Rogers, died 10 November 1909 aged 5 years and 9 months - and Francis William Rogers who died 24 February 1916 age 63

RUSK Erected by Benjamin Rusk in loving memory of my dear father Robert Rusk who died 17th January 1907 aged 60 years. Also my darling mother Margaret Anne Rusk who died 8th November 1915 aged 68 years - and Henry Rusk son of Robert and Margaret Rusk who died 5th may 1945 aged 66 years

RUSK William Rusk 1870 - 1950 | Thomas Rusk 1903 - 1972
Elizabeth Rusk 1867 - 1950 | Anne Jane Rusk 1899 - 1980

RYAN This burial place belongs to Wm. Ryan of Lucan. This stone was erected to memory of his wife Margt. Ryan who departed this life 7th March 1838 aged 82 years - and also their son George Ryan who departed this life 14th Sept. 1813 aged 10 years. - Here also are interred the mortal remains of the above named Wm. Ryan who departed this life 11th Oct. 1851 aged 81 years - Also daughter Eliz. Dunne who departed this life 18th February 1874 aged 76 years

RYNNE loving memory of Patrick Jon Rynne, died 26th may 1942, aged 22 years - his mother Elizabeth Agnes, died 6th February 1967, aged 75 years - and father, Patrick Francis, died 4th August 1974 aged 85 years

SCANLON This stone was erected by Mrs. Elinor Scanlon in memory of her beloved husband William Scanlon who departed this life 19th May 1786 aged 25 years - Also three of his children.

SEALY Sacred to the memory of Jane, beloved wife of Sampson Sealy Esq. - late Captain 84th Regiment - erected by her beloved husband and daughters, Died 11 June 1866

SEALY Sacred to the memory of Sampson Sealy Esq. late Capt. 84th Regt. who died 6 June 1867 - Erected by his sorrowing family

SHELLY This stone erected by Walter Shelly of Leixlip in memory of his father John Shelly - Departed this life 26 June 1781 - aged 37 years

SHELLY This stone was erected by Walter Shelly of Leixlip in memory of his beloved mother Jane [?] Shelly alias Goodshaw who departed this life Febry. 23rd 186[?]6 aged 56 years - She was a tender parent - charitable... and a sincere friend

SMITH In loving memory of John Smith, Newtown House, Leixlip, who died 23rd December 1898, aged 70 - also his eldest son, William Smith, who died 10th November 1878, aged 20 - and of his beloved daughter, Kathleen Smith, who died March 19th 1909, aged 34 years - and also in loving memory of Helena, wife of John Smith, who died 15th January 1920 aged 81

STEWART Henry Stewart who departed this life 26th of March 1874 who for more than 50 years watched over the spiritual welfare of this parish. [wall tablet, chancel]

THUNDER This stone was erected by Thomas Thunder for his wife Joan Thunder alias Leuy who dept. this life Sept. ye 2nd 1743 - Aged 50 years - Also above Thomas Thunder husband of sd. Joan who died Nov. 31st [sic] 1750 - Aged 40 years

TRENCH In memory of Rev. John Edmond Trench, Rector of Kenmare, son of the late John Trench of St. Catherine's Park, died Oct. 15th 1860 - Aged 42 years

TRENCH Sacred to the memory of Francis Arthur Trench of Newlands, Co. Dublin, died 14th Aug. 1868 in the 52nd year of his age

TURNER Here lieth the bodies of two infant children of Richard Turner of Hammersmith Dublin - who died in 1818 and 1822 and of his son Revd. Richard Turner who died 7th Feb. 1849 aged 32 years

TURNER This stone erected by Anne Turner to the memory of her beloved parents Mr. Thomas W. Turner who departed this life May the 4th 1818 aged 83 years - Mrs. Sarah Turner who died April 30th 1848 aged 84 years

TYRRELL Erected to the memory of William Tyrrell Esq. who departed this life 9th Nov. 1798 aged 66 years - William Tyrrell Esq. his son died 20 Nov. 1815 aged 33 years - Peter Tyrrell died 27th Feb. 1818 aged 53 years - Benjm. Tyrrell died 28th Aug. 1819 aged 9 years - Eleanor Tyrrell relict of William Tyrrell died 30th Dec. 1819 aged 76 years - Eliz. Tyrrell died 11th Feb. 1820 aged 33 years

WATKINS Elizabeth Maud (Dot) Watkins, Ralph Square, died 22 February 1933 aged 25 and her sister, Margaret (Rita) Watkins, died 9th December 1939 aged 19 yrs. - and her mother Eleanor Josephine, died 11th April 1945 aged 67 - and also her brother Patrick Joseph died 5th August 1947 aged 36 years - and her father, William Watkins, died 15 Dec. 1951 aged 76 yrs. - and her brother, Thomas John, died 6 March 1953 aged 46 years - Also his brother, William (Billy) Watkins, died 22 September 1994 aged 82 years

WATERS In loving memory of Philip Waters - died 29 June 1923 aged 20 years - Also his mother Jane - died 11th January 1938 - Aged 59 years - and his father William - died 17th April 1960 aged 83 years - his brother James - died 14th October 1964 aged 57 years - Also Catherine (Kitty) Waters died 29th June 1994

WEST In memory of Maida, beloved wife of A W West of Leixlip House, only daughter of the late Thomas Hanmer of Bodnant Hall, County of Denbeigh, died at Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry, August 5, 1920 aged 49 years [wall plate in chancel]

WHITE This Tombe was erected by the Lady Ursula White, daughter of the Lord Moore. Here Lyeth the Bodis of Sr. Nicholas White, Knight, deceased the 24th of Februarie 1654 and his son Nicholas White Esq., deceased 31st of Decembr 1664. [in wall of chancel]

WILLIAMS Here lies Deborah, widow of GV [George?] Williams, Archdeacon of Cashel and sister of Narcissus, Archbishop of Dublin, who died 24 March 1697 aged 65 [floor, chancel; original in Latin]

WOGAN Erected by Thomas Wogan Leixlip in loving memory of his dear wife - Anastasia - who died 27th November 1901 aged 57 years - also of his son Thomas Gerald - who died 14th April 1909 aged 27 years - and his stepson Henry Crosby - who died 5th August 1902 aged 26 years - and the above named Thomas Wogan who died 3rd March 1918 aged 77 years - and Thomas John Wogan - son of Thomas Gerald died 4th August 1960 aged 32
[on the back face:] Here lie the remains of Elizabeth Wogan who died 3rd December 1964

WOOKEY John Levesey Wookey, who died at Weston Lodge, 3rd March 1880 age 31 - And also Francis Wookey, who died in Southport, 27th December 1889 age 74 - Also John Neil son of Frederick and Fanny Wookey, who died April 4 1892, age 4 1/2 months

WOOKEY Frederick Wookey J.P., of Weston Lodge, who died July 16 1918 aged 68 and Fanny, his wife, who drowned in the sinking of RMS Leinster, October 10 1918

WOOKEY In memory of Frederick Maurice Wookey, only surviving son of Frederick and Fanny Wookey, Weston Lodge, 2nd Lieut. 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, wounded at St. Eloi, March 15, when leading C Company. Died March 19, 1915 aged 27, buried [abroad]... [wall tablet, nave]