Louth – Dunleer Churchyard Memorials

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File contributed by:  C.Hunt

CEMETERY: DUNLEER CHURCHYARD MEMORIALS
	[Contributed by B. R. Balfour, Esq., Townley Hall.
	Drogheda.]

Headstone:
"Sacred to the Memory | of MARY SHAW many years an |
 Inhabitant of this Town, Formerly wife | and Forty Five
 years  the virtuous | Widow of ROGER SHAW Gent of the |
 very  respectable family of that name | near Antrim. She
 departed  this Life | the 24th of April 1802 and lieth here
 | interred  aged 91 years."

Low head stone' :
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       I.H.S
 (Fig. of cherub)
"This stone is erect by MICHL | LANDY in Memy of his wi| fe
 ANN LANDY who Depd | this Life May 1780, | Aged 65."

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       I.H.S
"Here Lies the | Bodies of MICHAEL | MEAHAN: and his | wife
 MARGARET: HE | Died March THE 1ST | 1776 aged 77 YEARS |
 Also two of their childn | JOHN and MARY."

Low headstone' :?
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       I.H.S.
"Here Lyeth the bo |dy of JOHN SMITH | who departed this |
 life ye 5 day of July in ye | year 1756 aged 29 yrs | Also
 two of his chil | dren.  This MONU | MENT errected by | his
 loveing wife Mary.

Source: Journal of the Association for the Preservation of
the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland Vol. 4. FHL# 1279252