The Whitty Clan

If you have any queries or information, please feel free and contact me at maura@whittyclan.com

Of special historical significance is the marble Whitty memorial, erected in1647, in ruin of the ancient parish church in Grange cemetery, Kilmore. It is the only surviving memorial to an Anglo-Norman family in the country. Its Latin inscription translates follows:

Kilmore is in the south-east of the Barony of Bargy, which runs parallel with the Barony of Forth to the town of Wexford.  Both baronies have been inhabited by the same race, and a peculiar dialect of English was spoken in them not very long since.  What  is called the Barony of Forth language virtually disappeared about fifty years ago. 

Here lies Walter Whitty, of Ballyteigue, Esquire, who died 9th November in the year of Lord 1630, and Helen, his wife, daughter of Hammon Stafford, of Ballyconnor Gentleman, who died 27th April, in the year of the Lord 1646, and Catherine, first wife of Richard Whitty, Esquire, daughter of Philip Devereux of Ballymagyr, Esquire, who died 18th of August, in the year 1646, in whose honour the same Richard, the first born of the aforesaid Walter and Helen, with his won second wife, Catherine Eustace, daughter of Oliver Eustace, of Ballymurray, Esquire, cause me (this monument) to be erected, 29th January 1647.

Old Church and Graveyard of Grange, Kilmore, which includes the Whitty Memorial and the grave of Fr John Whitty.