HISTORY OF ATHENRY  

1827 Burton Persse Lambert, Castle Lambert (Age 3)
!828 Mrs Ellen Lambert, wife of Peter Lambert Castle Ellen ( 39)
!834 Walter P. Lambert, Castle Ellen
1838 Burton Persse Lambert, Castle Lambert 13 April (39) 
1844 Peter Lambert, Castle Ellen and  Forticks Grove,Dublin (60)
1847 Edward Lambert, MD Oranmore
1848 Ellen, wife of Walter Lambert, Castle Ellen 
1848 Miss E. Lambert niece of Walter Lambert, Castle Ellen.
1855 Burton A. D. Lambert, Castle Lambert (19).
1859 William Parsons Lambert, Castle Lambert 
1865 William Lambert, Castle Ellen (8) 
1867 Walter Lambert, Esq. JP Castle Ellen (72).
1868 Mary J. Lambert, wife of Giles Eyre Lambert Moorpark (37)
1871 John Lambert, Taylor's Hill Galway (72)
1879 Anne Lambert, Galway late Castle Lambert (87)
1879 M. A. Lambert Moorpark (28)
1880 William Lambert Castle Ellen 1882
1882 Thomas Seymour Lambert (56)
1892 Walter Peter Lambert (76)
1891 Peter Fitzwalter Lambert Castle Ellen (45)
1903 Elizabeth Lambert Castle Ellen (80)
1939 Mary Lambert London (70).

Lambert (1), 
Lopdell (2), 
Turvin Smith (3), 
Mahon (4), 
Burke (5), 
Mc Cay (6), 
Lopdell (7), 
Hall (8), 
Trousdell (9), 
Shawe Taylor (10), 
Concannon (11), 
Spratt (12), 
Persse (13, plaque on wall inside).

St. Mary’s Collegiate Church was formerly the parish church of Athenry. Built in the 1240s it became collegiate in 1484 by order of Bishop O’Murray of Tuam. In 1574 it was destroyed by the Earl of Clanricarde’s sons when they sacked the town. In 1828 the existing church with its  elegant spire was built in the ruins and was in use by the Church of Ireland until 1960. 
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