PHILPOTT (Ballydaly, Millstreet): On July 7, 2014, peacefully, in the presence of his family, at Mallow General Hospital, BENJAMIN CHRISTOPHER (CHRISTY), dearly loved husband of Kathleen (nee O’Leary) and dear father of John, Áine, Donald and Christina. Very sadly missed by his wife and family, sons-in-law Ger and Fergal, daughters-in-law Tríona and Maria, beloved grandchildren Nóirína, Benn, James, Diarmuid, Elle, Max, Christopher and Molly, brother Paddy, sisters Helen, Mary, Breeda and Joan, brothers-in-law, sisters- in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives, neighbours and friends, especially Martin Nolan, Jimmy Murphy and Jerry McCarthy.
Reposing at his home this Wednesday afternoon from 2pm to 8pm. Reception into Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Ballydaly, on tomorrow, Thursday, for 12 noon Requiem Mass. Burial immediately afterwards in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Millstreet. Rest in peace. Ní imithe uainn atá séach romhainn.
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Community website for Millstreet, Co. Cork, Ireland
Christy Philpott was a good man who lived in Ballyday Lower for practically all of his life
Devoted to his children and grandchildren and to Kathleen his wife
As a man who knew a lot about horses he became widely known
And in his passing Ballydaly has lost one of it’s own
I remember as a boy with the cold chill of Winter in the breath of Spring air
Christy riding bareback on a bay horse to be sold at the Millstreet Town March fair
Going back near sixty years that does seem a long time
And Christy back then he was in his life’s prime
A likeable person of him one can say
And Ballydaly much the poorer for his passing today
The journey in life for us all has to end
But what counts most to many he was a good friend
And though the great gift of life from him has gone
In all who knew him good memories of him will live on.
“Christy Philpott” is by Francis Duggan
http://francisrhymer.blogspot.ie/2014/07/christy-philpott.html