Cemetery: Finglas Churchyard & Holmpatrick Old Churchyard 

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File contributed by: C. Hunt & Carol Hughes

FINGLAS CHURCHYARD.
    [From Mr. Lawrence J. Kinsella, Leixlip, 1901.]
      
      'A comparatively modern stone, over the vault of the 
Langrishe family, is partly overgrown with grass.  The 
vault, too, was in a sad state, there being evidently no 
person resident having any interest in it.  Part of the 
entrance to the vault has fallen in; it appeared "a happy 
hunting-ground" for animals.  The inscription is as follows' 
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In her family vault under this stone | are the remains
of Anne Lady Langrishe | who departed this life on the
4th Feby 1835 | aged 81 years | Also her husband|
Sir Robert Langrishe Bart | who departed this life|
26th April in [the] same year | aged 77 years.
  
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HOLMPATRICK OLD CHURCHYARD
    [From Mr. E. R. McC. Dix, May, 1904
    
     'The following inscription is copied from a slab 
bearing the Hussey coat-of-arms, impaling that of the 
Finglas family.  Over the former are the initials T. H., and 
over the latter E. F.
'The Hussey Arms resemble those of the Barons of Galtrim,
viz.' :---
   "Barry of six, ermine and gules, on a canton of the last 
a cross or. "

'The Finglas Arms are' :---
"Per pale, sable and argent, a fleur-de-lys counterchanged."
    'The inscription, Mr. Dix states, has been recut in 
recent years by a person (judging by the blunder) ignorant 
of Latin.  For instance, the QVE OBIT now appears as QVF 
OBMT, &c.
            'In the original inscription several of the 
letters were conjoined. It apparently read' :---
HIC . IACET . ELIZABETH
FINGLAS . QVONDAM
VXOR . THOMEAE . HVSSEI
DE .  HOLMPATRICK . GENEROBY
QVE . OBIIT . XXVII . DIE
QVIVS . AIE . PPICIETVR . DE'
             
                'The last line means "On whose soul may God 
have mercy." The first P has a prolongation of the curved 
portion slanting downwards, which is a contraction for PRO ; 
and the large comma- like object after the DE is also a 
contraction, and represents US.'
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Source
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the 
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland Vol 6 (FHL # 0258795)