Cemetery: Dunkerron Castle Mural Tablet & Tralee

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Contributed by C. Hunt & MJ Bradley

CEMETERY: DUNKERRON CASTLE MURAL TABLET & TRALEE

'In the third volume, and at page 169, of "The Kerry
Magazine" for 1856, a tablet bearing the following
inscription is said to be (or to have been) built into the
walls of Dunkerron Castle belonging to the O'Sullivan
More':-

I. H. S.
MARIA DEO GRATIAS
THIS WORK WAS MADE
THE XX OF APRIL 1596 BY
OWEN O'SULLIVAN-MORE
AND
SUYLY * NY * DONAGH * McCARTHY-REAGH.
     W. FITZG.

TRALEE

'A correspondent (Richard Hitchcock) to "The Kerry
Magazine" (vol. i, p. 142), which was brought out in 1854,
states that he copied the following inscription in 1847
from a tomb-slab built into the wall at the side of a door
to a house in Abbey Street, Tralee.  The slab is supposed
to have come from the cemetery of the former Friary,
which had disappeared damaged.  At the top of the slab
was a coat of arms, now obliterated.  The inscription runs
as follows:-

HERE LEYETH THE BODDY
OF DAVID ROCHE ERQr COV
NCELLER ATT LAW WHO
DECEASED THE 13 DAY OF
AUGUST ANNO DOMINI
1686. AND THE BODDY OF
HIS DAUGHTER MARY DEC
EASED IN THE YEAR 1685
          W. FITZG.


Source:
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland Vol. 6, 1904. (FHL #
0258795)