Laois - Tierhogar Churchyard, Lea Parish

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TIERHOGAR CHURCHYARD, LEA PARISH.

	[From Lord Walter FitzGerald.]

	'Considerable remains of this old church are standing, 
but the ruins have no cut-stone work now left in them, 
though here and there cut-stone jambs of windows are used as 
headstones to the graves. 

'Three flat slabs lie below the east end, outside the ruins, 
bearing the following inscriptions':--

	HERE LYETH THE BODY OF
	THE REVAREND FRANCES [sic]
	BERGIN WHO DEPARTEH THE
	11TH DAY OF MAY 1736
	AGED 63
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	'The next slab is that of a layman, as the inscription 
faces the east; and strange to say, at this late period, is 
in relief':--

	HERE - LYES - THE - BODY
	OF - COND - RORKE - WHO
	DEPARTED - THIS - LIFE - THE
	22 DAY - OF - AUGUST
	1732.
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	'The third slab is broken, and the upper portion is 
missing; it is said to mark the grave of a priest, Father 
Fox.  The latter end of the inscription reads':--
	. . . . . . . . . . 
	Of the Rever . . . . . 
	who was for the space of
	6 years parish priest of the
	parishes of lea & Coulbana-
	gher and departed this Life
	the 6th day of November 1741
	and in the 41st year of his 
	Age.
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	'Another priest's grave lies out in the burial-ground to 
the south of the church ruins; it is marked by a table-tomb, 
on which is inscribed':--
	Here lieth the Body of ye Revd
	Iohn Phelan who departd this life
	the 16th of August 1775. Aged 80 yrs.
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	'A slab inside the church ruins, much overgrown and sunk 
in the ground, bears the following inscription':--

	Here lyeth the Body of | Garret Dempsy who de- parted 
this life the . . . | of September in the year | 1745  Aged 
60 years. | Also here lyeth the | Body of Margaret Beaughan 
| his grandaughter. She | Departd this Life October | the 
18th in the year 1768 | Aged 19 years.
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	'On a headstone, near the south wall, outside the ruins':--

	Here lieth the | Body of John | Roarke and Fa | mily he 
depd | this life Janry | the 1st 1759 | aged 69 years.
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