Cork - Brigowen Churchyard (St. Fannachan)
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BRIGOWEN CHURCHYARD (ST. FANNACHAN)
'In the consecutive Volume XIX of the Journal of the RSAI
(1889), and at p. 224, the Rev. Canon Courtney Moore gives
the Latin inscription on a tomb in the chancel of these
church ruins. It is as follows':-
IN * HOC * TVMVLO * LACET * MARGARITA
D.D. * BARONISSA * DE * CALENDAS * MAII, ANNO
DOMINI * 1721 * ETATIS * SVAE * 59 * OMNI
VIRIVTI * CLARA * ORIVNDA * OCAHAN
MAGNATE * DE * COMITATV * LONDONDE-
-RI * PATERNO * GENERIS * MATERNO
QVE * IN * DOMO * NECIANORVM * COMI-
-TATVS * CLARE * EAM * DVXIT * JOHANNES
Box-tomb, faint inscription:-
Here lyeth y* Body of Thomas | Harris of Harris Grove who |
departed this Life March the 28 | 1766 aged 63
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Headstone, very faint:-
Here lyes the Body | of Wm Leychester who | departed this
life Janry | the 27, 1745 Aged 60 years | Also his son
Thomas | Leychester who depd | January y* 7, 1757 Aged | 24
years And Sarah | Grigg who departed ~ | June the 24th
1757 Aged 52.
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Headstone:-
HERE LYES THE | BODY OF ABRAM | WEBB WHO DEPAR | TED THIS
LIFE THE | 21 OF MAY 1719 ATT | THE AGE OF 44 | YEARES AND
HIS TWO | SONS ROGER AND | GEORGE WEBB.
At the foot of the above is a flat slab thus inscribed:-
The Burial Place of Stawell Webb, Esqr. & his Family.
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Flat slab, faint:-
Beneath lies ye Body of | Bet Pedder who (to y*) utmost
regret of his Family | & Freends (sic) Departed this | life
March y* 23. 1768 | Aged 66 years.
Box-tomb, very faint:-
IN THIS VAVLT LYES INTERED
THE BODY OF WILLIAM HARRIS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE
23 OF JVNE 17 - - IN THE 49 ~
YEARE OF HIS AGE. ALSO ARE
BVRIED SEVERAL OF HIS CHILDREN
HERE
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Box-tomb:-
Here lies the Body of | Francis Swayne Esqr who | departed
this life the 16 | day of November 1788 | Aged 28 years |
Universally loved and | lamented, as he poscessed (sic)
every virtue that could | adorn human nature, this | Tomb is
erected to his ever | dear memory by his affectio | nate
sister Ann Swayne
Lengthways on a slab, which has slipped from its supports,
is cut this inscription, several of the letters in which are
conjoined:-
HERE LYES THE BODY OF MARY WAGGETT
WIFE TO CHRISTOPHER WAGGATT, WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 9TH OF 7 *** 1716 IN THE
39 YEAT HER AGE
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Headstone:-
HERE LYETH THE BODY OF | THOMAS ROGERS SON VNTO | JAMES
ROGERS NOW DEPART | ED THIS LIFE THE 29 DAY OF | AVGVST AND
IN THE 27 YEAR OF HIS AGE ANNO DOM 1738
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Headstone:-
Here intered is y* Body } of John Shewcrofts | with several
of his | children & Grand | children he deceased | An. Do.
1720 aged
The remainder is underground.
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Fractured flat slab, very indistinct:-
HERE LYETH THE BODY OF
JOHN WATKINS WHO DIED
IN THE YEARE 1700 LIKEWISE
THE BODY OF ...R..NE..
HIS WIFE ............
THEIR CHI[LDREN &] GRAND
CHILDREN
A headstone (some of the letters are conjoined):-
HERE LYETH THE | BODY OF ISABE |LLA HEDERENTON | THE WIFE OF
RICH | ARD WINNE WHO | DEPARTED THIS LIFE | THE 30 OF OCbr
1712
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The exceptionally early slab, mentioned at the commencement
of these notes, is the upper portico* of a narrow slab
(broader at the upper end than lower down) which I
discovered barely above ground at the head of a grave near
the Bunworth box-tomb; noticing that it bore an inscription
in "black letter" in very low relief, I got the sexton,
Denis Regan, to raise it to the surface, took a rubbing of
it, and with the permission of the rector (Dr. Cotter), had
the slab moved for safety to the porch of the church (7th
August 1904).
This portion of the slab is 3 feet in length; in breadth,23
inches, narrowing to 18 inches; and in thickness, 5 inches.
An ornamental wheel-like- headed cross is lightly cut down
the centre; and round the edges is the fragment of an
inscription, beginning;-(This is in a highly decorative
script (mj)
Wic jacet (or jacent) Geraldus
filius Philipii .......
And finishing with, as far as can be determined;-
et p[ro] ge[n] ie a do m guge viii.
Probably the missing portion of the slab was the longer of
the two; it unfortunately contained the surname, which
cannot even be guessed at, as the only letter left by the
break resembles the f in ;filius. Father Carrigan, c.c., to
whom I sent the illustration made from the rubbing,
suggested the "et progenie" portion of the inscription. The
latter probably ran, when translated, something in this
fashion]-
Here lies (or lie) Gerald son of Philip [...?surname
....of....., and his wife.....who caused this stone
to be erected for them and their] posterity in the year
of our Lord 1508.
Mr. Garstin, whom I also consulted, has kindly supplied the
following remarks about this curious inscription and the
very peculiar way in which the date is given;- The reading
of the end still remaining, and of one side, is plainly "Hic
jacet Geraldus filius Philipii"; but the other end is
wanting, and the remaining side is very puzzling. It seems
to begin with et. The follows the letter p with a flourish,
followed by gcie. If in the middle of this the letter n was
omitted, as was frequently the case with it and m, we may
read "progenie" which seems to indicate the Latin for the
"posterity," which figured so frequently in later
inscriptions. This is followed by a(slash above it)do
(conjoined) for Anno Domini. Then comes m separated by four
letters from the viii, which planly ends the inscription.
It would be ususal to find a set of c's where the four
letters are, but they seem to be quage, which may have been
intended to do duty for "quingentesimo," thus making the
date 1508. The words are not spaced. The letters are
somewhat uncommon in shape, and a long finial s appears at
the end of Geraldus." There is no "obijt," and no prayer.
The cross is of ordinary type. J. R. G.
Facing page has a rubbing: The Upper Portion of An Early
Sixteenth Century Slab in the Churchyard at Buttevant, Co.
Cork.
SOURCE:
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland: vol. 6 1904 - FHL #
1279285