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Richardstown Co. Louth
[From James Walsh. Inscriptions prior to 1864]
[For Index see bottom of page]
This small graveyard adjoins Richardstown Castle, the seat of Major Henry, about mid-way between Dunleer and Ardee. It is about a quarter of an acre in extent. It contains the ruins of a small church, about forty-two feet in length, by about twenty-one feet in breath. The walls are down, save the west and part of the south wall; they are constructed of very rude masonry, and are about three and a half feet thick. The Rev. Canon Leslie is his 'History of Kilsaran' states the church has been a ruin since 1641.
There are several reinscribed stones in the graveyard. I have copied all the inscriptions prior to 1864. The graveyard is still in use for burials: -
[1]
Erected AD 1814 by
Owen McCullen of Claree for
him and his posterity interred
here where lieth two of his
Children
[2]
Erected
By Walter McCarney
in memory of his Grand
Father Patrick & Richard
His Father & Mother Elizth
McCartney and to Postety
also Edward & John
1796. May they rest in
Peace
[3]
Erected by James Hoey
of Williamstown in Memory
of Bryan Mcnaulty who
departed this life Ferbuary
1st 1800 aged 65 years
[4]
Here lieth the Body
of Laurence Mc
Connaulty who
died March the
24th 1754 aged 35
years also of Owen
McConnaulty who
died Febry 18th 1759
aged 61 years
This stone was
Ered by George
McConnaulty
his son in 1776
[5]
This stone was Ered
here by Dennis
Loughlin of Drog
heda in Memory of
His Father George
McLoughlin who
Departed this life
the 1st of May 1782
aged 61 years
[6]
This Monument
has ben erected by
Mr. Laurence Byrne of Maine
in Memory of his beloved Mother
Mrs Anne Byrne
who died on the 14th day of Feb 1859
also his beloved Sister Catherine
who died on the 18th Novr 1863
and of his beloved uncle
Thomas Kieran
who died the 8th day of Feby 1857
[7]
Erected
by
Eliza Kieran
Crinstown
in memory of her Father
Richard Kieran
who died
January 13th 1847 aged 63 years
[8]
Erected by Mary
to the Memory of her Husband
Philip Boylan of Harristown
who died 9th April 1837
age 68 years.
[9]
Patk
Eks 1790
[Patrick Ekins]
[10]
Beneath
this tombstone is interred the Mortal
Remains of Anne Ekins alias Finegan wife to
Patrick Ekins of Tubberdony who departed this
life the 1st of April 1892 aged 41 years
Underneath also be the Remains of the above
names Patrick Ekins who departed this life
the 7th November 1806 aged 69 years
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead, Vol. XII. no. 1 (1926)
Index to Richardstown Inscriptions
Boylan Mary [8]
Boylan Philip [8]
Byrne Anne Mrs. [6]
Byrne Catherine [6]
Byrne Laurence [6]
Ekins Anne [Finegan] [10]
Ekins Patk. [9]
Ekins Patrick [10]
Hoey James [3]
Kieran Eliza [7]
Kieran Richard [7]
Kieran Thomas [6]
McCarney Edward [2]
McCarney Elizth. [2]
McCarney John [2]
McCarney Patrick [2]
McCarney Richard [2]
McCarney Walter [2]
McConnaulty George [4]
McConnaulty Laurence [4]
McConnaulty Owen [4]
McCullen Owen [1]
McLoughlin Dennis [5]
McLoughlin George [5]
McNaulty Bryan [3]
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