 He died in 1895, and is buried in the grounds of the churchyard at St. John's Square, Limerick.Following a public meeting in April 1853, a fund-raising committee was established, and they had amassed £1200 by October of that year.One of the first subscribers was Sir Richard Bourke, governor of the colony of New South Wales in Australia, who founded the present Australian education system and in 1855 the first farmers' association in Ireland, the Farmers' Club.