Cemetery: Castleknock, St. Brigid's Churchyard Memorials

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CASTLEKNOCK, ST. BRIGID'S CHURCHYARD

	     [From Lord Walter FitzGerald.]
     'There are no monuments of any interest now existing in 
this Churchyard.  The inscriptions which follow are copied 
from the oldest dated stones now visible.  On the south side 
of the Churchyard is a flat slab' :---
			THIS STONE AND BVRIAL
			PLACE BELONGETH TO WILL
			IAM FORD SON OF WALTER
			FORD OF CASTLEKNOCK
			FOR HIM & HIS POSTERITY
			HERE VNDER LEITH THE
			BODYS OF 3 OF HIS CHILDREN
			ANNO DOMINI 1720
          'More of the inscription is underground.'

          'A headstone ' :---
              This Stone and Burial place belongeth to James 
Dunn and his posterity.  Deceased September ye 15 1735 in 
the 51st year of his Age.  here lyeth ye deceased sons of 
James dunn and derected by ye wido dunn I B.
                                                      
          'A flat slab' :---
		             1742
			This Stone & Burial
			place Belongeth to
			William [ ]onnell and
			his Posterity.  Here lyeth
			six of his children.
                                                        
           'A headstone' :---

			Chapeleizod I H S 1773
			This Stone was Erected by
			Timy Brien who thoug
			ht fit to write this line : In
			Memory of his Father Iohn
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			who died in the year of
			1761 and on the in 16 day of
			May : which for his soul
			I hope you'l pray.  His age
			it Being 75.  In pace he lived
			And so he died
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           ' A headstone ' :---

    			 I H S
                  Here lies he Body of Andrew Tallant and 
his Daughter Mary Beaughan alias Tallant of the Wood Quay, 
Who died the 15 of Janry 1761 and 15 of her children.  Also 
the Body of Mary Tallant al' Murray wife & mother of the 
above, who died Novr the 1 1764 aged 68 'More of the 
inscription is underground.'
                                                       
    'On the east side of the churchyard.  A headstone' :--- 
	                              	I. H. S.
                This Stone and Burial place belongeth to 
John Murphey and his Posterity.  Here lieth the Body of Alis 
Murphey who departed this life Novemr the 20th 1724 Aged 35 
years.  Here lieth the Body of Joseph Murphey son son [sic] 
of the abovesaid John Murphey 'The rest is underground.'
                                                       
    'On the west side of the churchyard. 
        A headstone' :---
			I.H.S.
			This Stone was Erected here
			by Bryan Nall for him 
			and his Posterity 1744
  

Source
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the 
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland Vol 6 (FHL # 0258795)