Anne Biddulph was the daughter of Nicholas Biddulph of Congor House, Borrisokane, County Tipperary and Fortal, King’s County. Her mother was Nicholas’ second wife Isabella La Touche, daughter of James Digges La Touche, of Sans Souci, Dublin. An item in the Nenagh Guardian of February 19th, 1873, gives us a little insight into her life.
Late Concert at
Nenagh: ...Through some inadvertence we omitted the names of Miss Anne and Miss
Grace Biddulph, who sang at the Concert and are members of the Choral society.
Anne Biddulph died of uremia and cerebral haemorrhage on the 21st of September 1901 at Birrview, Crinkill. Her brother William was present at her death. She was 58 years old and unmarried. She appears to have lived in Birr all her life. She is buried in Congor graveyard which once surrounded Ardcroney Church.
Anne Biddulph died of uremia and cerebral haemorrhage on the 21st of September 1901 at Birrview, Crinkill. Her brother William was present at her death. She was 58 years old and unmarried. She appears to have lived in Birr all her life. She is buried in Congor graveyard which once surrounded Ardcroney Church.
In memory of Mary
Biddulph who died 1st January 1914. Also her sister Annie who died
21st September 1901. Birr View, Birr. ‘I am the Resurrection and the
Life.’
There is a memorial
window to Annie Biddulph in Ardcroney
Church.
Sacred to the memory
of Annie Biddulph died September 21, 1901.
But the church itself is no longer at Ardcroney. It was
moved lock, stock, and barrel, to Bunratty
Folk Park.
The following account of the removal of the church appeared in the Independent.[1]
Tierney is best known
for dismantling a Protestant church in Ardcroney, Co Tipperary, and re-erecting
it at the Bunratty Folk Park a living, working museum dedicated to capturing
what life was like in 19th-century rural Ireland. Tierney says all elements
of the church were carefully removed, including the cast-iron windows, the roof
slates and all the interior woodwork. Even samples of the delicate stencil work
on the interior walls were removed and copied. The stone from the church was
moved on special pallets and stored at Bunratty for later reconstruction. In
1997 planning permission was sought from Clare County
Council. Once secured, Shaffery Associates, a Dublin-based architectural firm
who specialise in the restoration of historic buildings, was appointed to
oversee the reconstruction of the church. The painstaking job of reconstructing
the building took one year to complete and a FAS group from Roscrea, Co Tipperary, assisted in the
sourcing of furniture and fittings. Now the church, which was originally built
in 1824, is an integral part of the Folk
Park.
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