Cemetery: SLIGO, Kilvarnet Parish
Ireland Genealogy Project Archives, 2007
Contributed by C.Hunt
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  Kilvarnet Parish.
  'These epitaphs in Kilvarnet churchyard are given in Dr. O'Rorke'a work' :-

  " Hear lys | Interd the Body of BARTH | WALLACE | who departed this life the
  28th | April 1769.   Aged 76."

  " Pray for the soul | of OLIVER WALLACE | who departed this | life March 17
  1773. | Aged 23 years."

  " Pray for the soul of | OWEN DONOGHUE who depart | ed this life March 16th |
  1778 aged 60 years. | His son JAMES DONOHOE of Ballyara | his wife JANE BRETT
  of Tubbercurry and | some sf their children are also interred here."

  'The following epitaph is placed over the tombstone of the father of the
  present M.P, for Sligo ':-

  " Lord have mercy on the sonl of JOHN COLLEARY of Ranaghan | who departed this
  life 22 dec. 1841 aged 56. | Erected by his loving wife | MARY MCGRATH. |
  Requiescant in pace."

  " 0 Lord | have mercy on the | soul of thy servant JOHN | ARMSTRONG of
  Falnasugan | who departed this life | on 6th of Septr 1843. | aged 74 years.
  May be rest in | peace.   Amen."

  "Lord have mercy on tie sonl of | WILLIAM MASTERSON who departed | this life
  12. June.   Aged | 96 years. | Erected by his son THOMAS MASTERSON | in memory
  of him and posterity."

  " In | memory of ] WILLIAM CORCORAN | Ballinacarrow who departed | this life
  16th March 1861. | Aged 43 years, | May he rest in peace.'

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Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in
Ireland FHL# 1279252