Cemetery: County LONGFORD, Rathreagh, now Fox-hall - Nathaniel FOX Memorial
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Rathreagh, now Fox-hall

'Tomb of Sir Nathaniel FOX, in the old church':-
				HIC JACET NATHANIEL FOX DE RATJEAGH
				ARMIGER HUJUS TEMPLI FUNDATOR [I]MAGO FIJUS
				ET HAERES PATRICII FOX DE MOYVOR (?) IN
				COMITATU WESATMEDIAE MILITIS QUO UXOREM
				HABUIT E;IZABTHHAM FILIAM WALTERI HUSSY
				DE MOYLHUSSY ARMIGERIEX EA GENUIT 8 FILIOS
				ET 5 FILIAS EQUIBUS 8 FILII ET 3 FILLIAE
				SUPERSTITES SUNT ......PATRICIUS PRAEDICTI

	'The above is thus given by DuNOYER':-
				
				        'TRANSLATION'

		"Here lies Nathaniel FOX of Rathreagh, Esquire, the 
		founder of this	Church, son and heir of Patrick FOX, soldier	
		of Moynor in the county of Westmeath, and very like him.
		
		He married Elizabeth, daughter of Walter HUSSY, Esqre. of
		Moyl-Hussy, by whom he had eight sons and five daughters, of
		whom eight sons and three daughters still survive.

		Patrick, son of the above and heir of the above-named Nathaniel
		married Barbara, daughter of the most noble lord Patrick 
		PLUNKET, Baron of Dunsany.  

		The said Nathaniel and Elizabeth lived twenty-five years in the 
		state of holy matrimony and he died at Rathreagh on the 2nd of
		February, 1634 in the 46th year of his age"

	'For particulars of this family, see BURKE'S "Landed Gentry." vol. i, p461, 1871'
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Source:   Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of
the Dead in Ireland, Vol. 3. FHL# 1279252