Galway - AUGHRIM - Protestant Churchyard *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Galway Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: C. Hunt AUGHRIM - PROTESTANT CHURCHYARD [From Lord Walter FitzGerald] A modern church stands in this burial-ground. The tombstones are not older than the eighteenth century; the oldest appear to be the following' : 'On a small headstone, south side' : HERE LIES THE | BODY OF SHVESA | NNA BEGGLY WHO | DYED THE 16TH OF | MARCH 1759. _____ IHS 'Headstone, east end' : Pray for Barbara | FitzSimons who | Departed April | The 6th 1779 The | Lord Be Mercifoul [sic] | to her Soul Amen | Erected by N. F. _____ 'On a table-tomb' : a Here Lieth the Body | of William Grrett [sic] who | Departed this Life Novembr | the 20. 1778 (?) Aged 79 years. | This Stone was Erected by | his wife Margaret Garrett | Also his wife Margaret Garrett | who died the 14th of Nov. 1812 | Aged 100 years. _____ 'On a flat slab, at the west end': Beneath this stone are | Deposited the Remains of | h Iohn Todd of Glanloug | ane who departed this | life the 20th of Decr 1789 (?) | Aged 84 years. | This Stone was Erecd | by Iohn Todd son of the | abovementioned Io | hn. | Grateful Tribute to Memories. _____ IN THE OLD CHAPEL YARD 'A handsome new chapel, on a different site, has replaced the old one, of which practically the west gable alone stands. N N 'The following inscription is copied from a flat slab at the west end, and inside the ruins': I.H.S. Lord have mercy on the | soul of Martin Loughnan | & his Posterity, he Depd this | Life Novr ye 30th 1788 Aged | 52 yrs This stone was Erected | By his son Walter Loughnan | as a gratefull Testimony | to his Father's Memory. _____ 'On a flat slab, at the west end of the burial-ground': Lord be mercifull to the | soul of Fergus Dolan who | Dept ye life Augt ye 7th 1784 | Aged 52 years. Erected by | his son In Dolan for him & | Posterity. Source: Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland Vol. IX (FHL # 1297285)