Lady Carbery laid to rest in ancestral vault

THE lament of a lone piper wafted through a woodland setting as the matriarch of one of West Cork’s best-known aristocratic families was laid to rest.

A black horse-drawn hearse led the cortege through Castlefreke Woods for the final farewell to Lady Carbery, Joyzelle Mary Evans-Freke.

Her 86-year-old husband Peter, Lord Carbery, was flanked by his sons Michael, John and Stephen, daughters Maura and Angela, along with grandchildren and great-grandchildren as Lady Carbery was interred in a tomb in the old Rathbarry graveyard.