Cemetery: Crumlin - St. Mary's Churchyard and Drumcondra Old 
Graveyard

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CRUMLIN-ST. MARY'S CHURCHYARD
    [From G. S. CARY, Esq., Terenure, 1900]

LATIN:        IOS [F]IL SEC IOS ET ANN DEANNE NAT AP 
RAV[E]NSTHORP IN COM 6 DIE IAN 1648 ET NVP ELIZ FIL ION 
PARKER ARCEP DVBLI & ONIIT AP DVB DECIM                OCTA 
DIE IAN 1698 ET SEP AP [CRVMLIN] VIC[E]S SIMO DIE EVI [SDEM 
MENSIS] 'There is just enough of the tops of the letters 
remaining to make it appear probable that CRVMLIN was the 
word inscribed. 

The stone which lies flat on the ground is very much broken 
and some parts of the inscription are hard to make out.  
There are armorial bearings at the end of the inscription, 
viz. :-

A Crest, a tortoise above a helmet - The Arms, a chevron 
between three ravens. Though the inscription has already 
appeared on p45 Vol. V of "The Journal" yet it is reproduced 
from the pen of Mr. GARSTIN, FSA who thus makes clear the 
very puzzling contracted Latin' :-

TRANSLATION Jos[eph?] second son of Jos[eph?]and Ann DEANE, 
born at Ravensthorpe in Northamptonshire 6th of Jan. 1648 
and married to Eliz. daughter of John PARKER Archbishop of 
Dublin and died at Dublin on the 18th of Jan. 1698 and [was] 
buried at [Crumlin ?] on the 20th day [of same month?]

Note.- Dr. John PARKER, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam was 
translated to Dublin by patent dated 28th February 1678/9.  
He died at Dublin on the 28th December 1681 and was buried 
in his Cathedral of Christ Church within the rails of the 
Communion Table. (COTTON'S "Fasti.")


DRUMCONDRA OLD GRAVEYARD
    [From Mr. L. J. KINSELLA, Leixlip, 1901]

'The following with reference  to Furlong's grave from a 
work published many years ago. The inscription quoted I 
compared with that on the monument and found it correctly 
given' :-

THE POET'S GRAVE "On the left there stood the monument I had 
gone to see, a neat pyramid of mountain granite as lasting 
as the fame of him for whose memory it was erected.  On each 
side of it was neatly sculptured a laurel crown.  It stood 
upon a solid and ornamental quadrangular base, and on a 
black marble slab on one side was the following tribute to 
him who slept beneath" :-

To the Memory of Thomas FURLONG, Esq. In whom the purest 
principles of Patriotism and honour were combined with 
Superior Poetic Genius This Memorial of Friendship is 
erected by those who valued and admired his various talents, 
public integrity and private worth.  He died 25th July, 1827 
aged 33 years.  May he rest in peace!


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