BANADA GRAVEYARD

Banada is the chief burying place of the parish of Kilmactigue. Names on gravestones during the 19th century included:
BURK, CANNAVON, GUNNING, O'DONNELL, GALLAHER, McCARRICK, McGETTRICK, McMANUS, MULLARKEY, McGINN, O'GRADY and WALSH.

Rev. James GALLAGHER d. February 1776

Sacred to the memory of
MR. PATT GALLAGHER, of Barratoher,
who departed this life in the year 1827.
This tomb has been ordered to be erected by his son JOHN, a resident
in Lima, Peru, in token of his respect and admiration
for the memory of the best of fathers.

The plot in which are interred Mr. Jones, the last lay owner of Banada, and his wife, was walled off from the rest of the cemetery, and was surmounted by a finely carved Celtic limestone cross, bearing three separate epitaphs, as follows :
Of your charity,
pray for the soul of DANIEL JONES, ESQ., of Benada Abbey,
Who died, fortified by the sacraments of the
Holy Catholic Church,
On the 26th March, 1845.
Aged 60 years.
Of your charity,
Pray for the soul of FREDERICK JONES, ESQ.,
Second son of DANIEL JONES, ESQ., of Benada Abbey,
Who died, fortified by the sacraments of the
Holy Catholic Church,
On the 1st March, 1853.
Aged 30 years.
Her children rose up and blessed her; her husband, and he praised her;
the woman who feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. -Prov. 31.
Pray for the soul of
MARIA LOUISA JONES, nee MCDONNELL,
Widow of the late DANIEL JONES, ESQ., of Benada Abbey.
She crowned a life of self sacrifice,
by devoting her last years to the establishment of the Convent of Our Lady of Benada,
where she died, fortified by the sacraments of the Holy Catholic Church,
On the 6th April, 1865,
Aged 71 years.

Marcy KILMARTIN d. 1775 aged 40