Cemetery: Ballysax Churchyard Memorials

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CEMETERY: BALLYSAX CHURCHYARD
    [From Lord Walter FitzGerald.]

'A Protestant church stands in this old, but not thickly
crowded churchyard. The church was rebuilt in 1825, as
appears by a tablet built into the west end.

'At the eastern end of the burial ground is a large pillared
monument supporting an obelisk. Into the sides are inserted
white marble tablets, now cracked and commencing to bulge.
On one of them is this inscription':-

Sacred | to the memory of | ROBERT GORE | of Sea View |
County Wicklow, Esqr | who died | on the 13th
of January 1824 | Aged 53 years | This Monument was erected
by a sincere friend.

'On the tablet on the opposite side is a verse in twelve
lines.

Another tablet bore a coat-of-arms.'
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'At the west end of the churchyard is a headstone, with
carving in relief at the top, viz., on either side of the
word Assention is an angel blowing a trumpet, and below is a
representation of our Lord, at whose feet lies a nude human
figure, all within a halo or ornamental circle. Then follows:-

IHS. IHS

This Stone is Erecd By PATRICK
DOWLING of Funstown 11 & patr.
Dowling of Tipenaan in
Memory of PETOR DOWLING
Who Depd. this life in ye yr .
1796 Agd . 57 yrs & posterity
Lord have mercy on their Souls Amen.
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'The three following inscriptions were copied from
headstones on the south side of the churchyard ':-

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IHS
This Erected by WILLIAM | & MAURICE BYRN in Memory |
of their brother EDWARD | BYRN who died 7ber  ye 11 th
1748 Aged 28 yrs .
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Erected by | TANGUY BENTLEY in memory | of his wife
ANN BENTLEY who | depd this life the 5th day | of Feby
1795. Aged 34 yrs.
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IHS
This Stone was
Erected by MAURICE
CAFFREY in Memory
of his father WILLIAM
CAFFERY & his Posterity
who departed this
Life Jany the 18 in the year
of our Lord 1773 Eaged 57
years May his soul
Rest in Peace Amen

Source:
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland.  Vol vii, FHL# 1279254