One of 162 memorial stones in Castletownarra graveyard (TN019-002002-), County Tipperary, recorded in 1982 by the Ormond Historical Society. 19th-century headstone marking the graves of Patrick Helbert (born c. 1788) who died on the 19th of October in 1835 aged 11 years old and Anne Guilsedon (born c. 1824) who died on the 24th of March in 1843 aged 55 years old. Erected by husband and father Peter Helbert. Above the inscription there is a Latin-Cross decorated with opposing triangles/lozenges/saltire crosses framed within a semi-circular shaped arch, flanked by a soul-effigy/winged-face with crescent-moon-face or partial eclipse to the left of the cross and sun-disc with cross on the right hand side.
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