Cavan - Drung Parish Memorials 

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DRUNG PARISH MEMORIALS 
[five miles E.N.E.from Cavan, Kilmore Dioces].
    (From the Rev. J. Wallace Taylor, LL.D.)

'There is in the parish of Drung a very curious and very 
ancient burial- place, called Magheny, "a little plain"--a 
curious misnomer, as the site is on the top of a very steep 
hill.  I cannot find a solitary reference to it in any work 
I have come across, nor is it marked in any maps that I have 
seen.  There are traces--very slight--of building in the 
enclosure, but it is impossible to trace or follow the 
outline.  It has belonged to the Roman Catholic Church time 
out of mind.  It is now overgrown with weeds, and very badly 
cared for.  A few of the inscriptions are as follows':--

"THIS STONE WAS | ERECTED BY |RICHARD
McPHILLIPS IN |REMEMBERANCE OF HIS
FATHER ED|WARD Challis | WHO
DEPARTED THIS | LIFE NOVEMBER |27TH 1774."
[Rude representation of the Crucifixion.]
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"HERE LIETH | THE BODY OF | CORMIOCK KIE |
RAN WHO DE | PARTED THIS | LIFE DECEMBER |
20 1774, | AGED 44 YEARS."
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MAY THE LORD HAVE  | MERCY ON THE SOUL OF
PAT | & MARY FOY OF CALLOW | OCTOBER 1870."
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"THIS STONE WAS ERECTED | BY JAMES
CAVANAGH IN MEMO | RY OF HIS FATHER
DENIS | CAVANAGH WHO DEPARTED | THIS
LIFE MARCH THE 5 | 1786, AGED 68 YEARS."
[A headstone.]
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"THIS STONE WAS ERECTED | BY PAT SMITH
OF LISBIN | IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER |
HUGH SMITH WHO DEPARTED THIS | LIFE
17 May 1813, aged 60."
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"HERE LYETH THE BODY | OF MICHAEL DUFFY
DEPARTED | AUG. 12, 1814."
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"ERECTED BY WIDOW | GULSHENAN OF
DRUMAKE IN MEMORY OF HER HUS | BAND
DENIS GULSHENAN | ----- JULY 1812."
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I.H.S.
"AVE MARIA LAU THAU E GRATIA
AT THE WORDS | AWAKE ARISE |
ALL MANKIND | SHALL BE SURPRISED.?"
[A headstone.]
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"The heads of angels with wings are above and below these 
lines.'

"NOW TO OBEY THE LORD'S | COMMAND, UNITE
AGAIN | BOTH HEART | AND HAND."
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'Two large heads in profile, and four hands are beneath 
these.'

"ERECTED | BY PATT | BOYLAN OF CLINAN |
DERA IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER PATT
BOYLAN | WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE | APRIL
24TH IN THE YEAR | OF OUR LORD 1885 AGED |
75 YEARS | MAY HE REST | IN PEACE | AMEN."
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'The back of the cross contains a sketch in high relief of a 
blacksmith working at his anvil, the trade of Boylan, and on 
the sides are various designs. 'This curious monument is 
entirely the work of a blacksmith.'
(To be continued.)


SOURCE: 
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of 
the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, FHL# 1279252