Lord Carbery to be laid to rest

Monks from Glenstal Abbey will officiate at a fully sung Tridentine Latin mass for the funeral of the 11th Baron Carbery in Rathbarry today.

Lord Peter Ralfe Harrington Evans-Freke died in Twickenham at 92 last Thursday following a six-month illness. Some 25 members spanning three generations of the Evans- Freke family have returned to their ancestral home at Rathbarry Castle — scene of the longest siege in Irish history — from China, the US, Spain and England.

He will be entombed at the family crypt at the Chapel of Castlefreke where his late wife Lady Joyzelle Carbery was laid to rest in 2006. Her burial was the first in the Freke family mausoleum since 1852.