Cemetery: Donabate Church and Churchyard Memorials Vol 7  

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DONABATE CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD MEMORIALS VOL 7 
    (From LORD WALTER FITZGERALD)

Four of the inscriptions from slabs and a mural monument in 
the Protestant Church have appeared on Page 37 , Vol. IV of 
the Journal. The first two, the PRYSE and the ACHESON, now 
lie in the vestry, while the third, the FITZSIMONS slab, is 
built into the wall inside the church porch on the right 
hand side. A third slab, now, lying on the floor of the 
vestry, is thus incised:

Here lieth the body of
CAPT JAMES CONRAN, son to 
WALTER CONRAN of Curogh. 
Gent. deceased 
the 8th of 
Febry 1703

'At the foot of this slab are cut in relief are a skull and 
cross-bones, and below them, in incised lettering Momento 
More'

At the west end of the churchyard there are two large head 
stones built into mason work, now thickly covered with ivy. 
The inscriptions are as follows:-


Ano I.H.S Dom
1762
Pray for the souls of this Fameley deceased
A skull, cross-bones and coffin

This stone was erected by Mr 
ANDREW CRUCE at Turvey Hill in  
memory of his father Mr PATRICK 
CRUCE who departed this life the 
18 day of February  1757 in the 58 
year of his age. Here lieth two 
of his daughters ELIZABETH CRUCE 
and MARYANN WHELAN alias CRUCE 
who departed this life the 6th 
of Dec 1761. Aged 21 years. Allso 
JAMES C, son to the above P.C. 
who departed this life January the
18th  1762. Aged 17 years.
_____

I.H.S.
Here lieth the body of MRS MARY 
WHYTE. Wife of MR PATRICK WHYTE 
who departed this life the 20th of Oct 
1765 in the 51st year of her age.
Here also lieth MARIA WHYTE 
wife of ROB__? WHYTE of Pill Lane 
in the City of Dublin, who departed this life 
Universally and Sincerely regretted the 23rd 
October 1783 in the 32nd year of her 
age. Here also lieth three of her children.
_____

'Between these headstones and the path to the church porch 
lies a flat slab of the eighteenth century, but of such a 
slaty nature that the inscription is almost entirely flaked 
away. About all that is now decipherable is':-

I.H.S.
This stone was erected
by [IANE?] N..ids of the
City of Dublin.....
.........

The remainder is quite illegible..
*[JANE]

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'A flat slab now lying on the right-hand side of the path to 
the church porch, now without a letter, owing to the rotten 
state of the stone, formerly bore this inscription' -

Of  KIL-| ...In the County 
of Dublin Esq’ | who departed this life the 12th |of 
April 1780 in the 89 year of his age.| Here lyeth also 
The body of ANNE |PRYSE wife to the above named 
ED’WD PRYSE who departed this| life the 15 day of 
December 1726 |and in the 89 year of her age.
_____

'There is lying under the present wooden floor of the nave a 
slab bearing this inscription':-

I.H.S. This stone and burial pla | ce belongeth to THOMAS| 
SEAGRAVE and his posterity.| Here lyeth 2 of his children 
1755

The two last given inscriptions were copied from a sheet of 
paper in a frame in the vestry':- _____

'In the south-west corner of the burial-ground are two head 
stones thus inscribed':-

I.H.S. This stone and burying| place belongeth to JAMES | 
KELLY of Doneybate Fam(er) [sic] and his posterity  who| 
departed this life June |the 22 1768 Aged 88 years| Also his 
wife MARY KELLY |And children
_____

I.H.S.
This stone was erected [by]
JAMES O’BRYAN in memo[ry of] 
his father JAMES O’BRYAN [and]
His postarity [sic] who departe [d this] 
Life December the 25th 178[-Aged]
77 years
'The right hand side of this stone is broken off.'

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