Margaret (Peggy) Kennedy

Margaret Kennedy, known to family and friends as Peggy, was a private citizen of Milltown, Clonoulty, County Tipperary, Ireland, who died on 13 September 2025. She was born Margaret Gleeson and had lived for much of her life in Holycross, Thurles, before settling in Clonoulty. She was not a public figure in the sense of a celebrity, author or office holder, and no biography of her exists on Wikipedia or in Wikidata beyond the record of her death, which is why searches for her name so often surface other, unrelated women called Margaret Kennedy, including the English novelist Margaret Kennedy (1896 to 1967), author of The Constant Nymph, and several politicians, artists and professionals who happen to share the name.

What can be said with confidence about this Margaret Kennedy comes from the death notice published by her family and by local Tipperary media. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by her family. She was predeceased by her son John, by her parents Con and Mary Gleeson, and by her siblings Maureen, Crissie, Kitty, Timmy and Michael. She was survived by her husband John, her daughters Patricia Keating and Noreen Keating, her sons Jerry and Noel, and by grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Her life mattered, as every life does, to the people who knew her, and the tributes that followed her death describe a woman deeply rooted in her community around Clonoulty and Holycross in County Tipperary. No public record gives her date of birth, her occupation or an account of a public career, and no cause of death has been made public. This page records what is verifiable and will be updated if further confirmed information becomes available.

Margaret Kennedy died on 13 September 2025 at her home in Milltown, Clonoulty, County Tipperary. Her funeral was held in the days that followed, with a wake at a local funeral chapel and a Requiem Mass at her parish church, followed by burial in the local area.