Headstone Inscriptions, Rathmullan Priory, Rathmullan
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Mainistir Ráth Maoláin
Rathmullan Priory, built c 1508 by Rory Mac Sweeney Fanad and presented to Carmelite Friar Mac Sweeney of Connacht 1516
Plundered by George Bingham (1595) and used as a barracks (1601) by Ralph Bingley
In 1618 the Nave, or western portion, was adapted as a castle-residence by Bishop Knox
Its garrison repulsed the Jacobite Duke of Berwick in 1689
The Chancel (eastern) portion of the Church continued as a Parish Church until its abandonment in 1814
Note
This is as complete a listing as I was able to compile
There are more headstones/grave slabs however, some are very weathered, so as to make them unreadable, or they are broken or partially buried
Inscriptions
George ?
Who Departed This Life
On The ?
AD 1849
Also Martha, His Wife
Who Died On The 18th of June 18?
Aged 75 Years
Also John, Grandson of the above
Who Died on the 19th Feb 18884
Aged 21? Years
Also Mary Sweeney
Died 11th July 1922
Aged 70 Years
? Grandaughter
Betty Daly
Died Feb 1935
Aged 8? Years
In Loving Memory of
Commd Fitzmaurice Acton
CMO Royal Navy
Born 22nd Feb 1873
Died 7th Aug 1920
Sacred to the Memory of
Robert Aikin
Who Departed this Life
The 20th Sep 1845
Aged 25 Years
In Loving Memory
of Our Dear Father
Robert Alcorn, Glencross
Died March 24th 1961 Aged 89 Years
Also Our Dear Mother
Rebecca Alcorn
Died April 25th 1966 Aged 86 Yrs
From Their Loving Family
Peace Perfect Peace
Erected to the Memory of
Andrew Allison
Died 1st June 1860
His Wife Rebecca
Died 19th Jan 1892
Their Family
Rebecca Died 22nd Jan 1865
Elizabeth Died 29th Sep 1874
Robert John Died 25th June 1887
Andrew Died 9th Feb 1899
Ann Jane Died 13th Jan 1907
Peter Died 18th Feb 1818
Margaret Died 6 May 1927
In Memory of
Elizabeth
Beloved Wife of N Anderson
Glencross
Who Died 16th April 1909
Also His Father Nathaniel
Died 14th April 1893
And His Sister Mary Ann
Died 10th Dec 1897
Also Elizabeth Culbertson
Infant Daughter of
William and M S Anderson
Died 18th Julky 1913
Also The Above
Nathaniel Anderson
Died 19th Dec 1919
M S Gurney
Wife of William Anderson
Died 3rd Dec 1955
Also William Anderson
Husband of the above
Died 28th July 1960
.................Reverend Francis Armstrong..................
..........Who departed this life 8th day of ? 1886/1836
Aged 80 Years
...............Harriet? Widow of the above Francis Armstrong........
Mark Barington as a...................
But sincere .................
Memories of the Just..................
(grave slab badly weathered)
In Loving memory of
Mary Jane Batt
Born 6th Sept 1848
Died 17th Dec 1919
Rev N G Batt, M A
Vicar of Norton Near Evesham for 35 Years
Died at his residence Rathmullan, 5th May 1895?
Aged 71
In Loving Memory of
Samuel Beattie
Died 22nd October 1928
His Wife Mary Jane
Died 28th September 1938
In Loving Memory of
Frances Matilda Edwards
Beloved Wife of D N Edwards
of Ballgreen
Died 25th October 1913
Aged 53 Years
Also David N Edwards
Died 4th April 1917
Aged 68 Years
And David N Edwards
Died 25th Aug 1964
His Wife Mary Victoria
Died 7th Oct 1961
In Memory of
Mary Ann Edwards
Died 4th August 1905
Aged 86 Years
Also Her Son
Peter Hamilton Edwards
Died 10th March 1930
Aged 80 Years
Also Her Daughter
Jane Walsh
Died 1 July 1939
Aged 85 Years
Also Her Daughter
Annie Edwards
Died 9th December 1943
Aged 85 Years
And Minnie Annie McCully
Died 3rd October 1955
Aged 72 Years
In Memory of
Mary W? of Arthur Edwards
Died 8th Apr 1905
Aged 33 Years
Also Arthur Edwards
Who Died 4th June 1940
Aged 80 Years
Also Rebecca
Wife of Arthur Edwards
Who Died 11th Sept 1962 Aged 79 Yrs
Also James Morrison
Who Died 27th Nov 1954
Sacred to the Memory of
Walter Edward Elliot
Lieutenant Royal Navy
Born 19th September 1860
Died ?th January 190?
Erected by
Richard Hawkin
In Memory of
Mary Anne
His Beloved Wife
Who Died 4th February 1880
Aged 21 Years
Charles McGhee
Father of the above
Died 15th Dec 1868
Aged 52 Years
Also Eliza McGhee
Who Died 12th Feb 1905?
Aged 88 Years
Henderson
In Loving Memory of
Alberta Josephine Henderson
Who Died 13th June 1946 Aged 62 Years
........ the resting place of the mortal remains of the
? John? Henderson of Rathmullen
Whose work was ? duly appreciated
..................... his departure from this
............... World on the ?7th May 1818?
....................Martha...................
.....David Samuel........
(grave slab weathered & broken)
To The Dear Memory of
John Darcy - Irvine
Commander Royal Navy
Who Died at CarraLeena 12 April 1907
"Redeemed With The Precious Blood Of Christ
Through The Gates Of Death We Enter Into Everlasting Life"
In Most Loving Memory of
Colonel John Hewitt Jellett CMC
Royal Artillery
Who Died 10th September 1?32
"Death is the Birth of Life"
And of his Wife
Salisbury Mabel Jellett
Who Died 28th December 1?50
To The Memory of
Rosa Lawrence
Died 8th March 1908
Aged 77 Years
(other side)
To the Memory of
William Gregory Lawrence
Late of Coleraine
Died 17th November 1898
Aged 63
Here Lieth The Remains of
Mary? ? The Beloved Wife of?
Robert Lockhart
Who Departed This Life On the 5th? Day of ? 1823?
Also Elizabeth Love Her Daughter
Who Died on the 5 Oct 186? Aged 6? Years
John Mallins, Solicitor
Ramelton
Born 28th Jan 1850
Died 19th Oct 1911
Also His Wife
Isabella
Died 29th March 1929
Aged 86 Years
In Loving Memory of
The Malseed Family
Carnafeigh
(later inscription added)
Ellen Sarah Scott Died 1958
"God is Love"
In Loving memory of
My Dear Husband
Thomas Mayrick
Who Died 10th April 1899
Aged 42 years
In Loving Memory of
Charlotte Lane McClenaghan
(Nee McGuinness)
The Priory Rathmullan
2 June 1903 - 29 June 1991
Widow of
Herbert Eric St George McClenaghan
In Memory of
Rev John McFarland, MA
For 48 Years
Minister of Rathmullan
Presbyterian Church
Died Oct 17th 1908
Also His Wife
Elizabeth Jane Williams
Died December 27th 1922
Sacred to the Memory of
Colonel Arn? Shrewsbury Montgomery
Died at Fort Royal Rathmullan
5th April 1924
"Because I Live Ye Shall Live Also"
And of his Sister
Evelyn Fannie Stopford
Wife of Brig General A B? Stopford
Died 12th May 1949
Morrison
In Loving Memory of
George Morrison
Who Died 16th August 1940
Also his Mother
Sarah Jane Morrison
Who Died 22nd December 1958
Her Husband Samuel
Died 25th May 1969
In Memory of
John Morrison
Who Died 31st? March 1871
Aged 78 Years
Also His Wife
Mary
Who Died 23rd July 1870
Aged 78 Years
Also Their Sons
James Morrison
Who Died 9th August 1888
Asleep in Jesus
And Robert Morrison
Who Died 9th June 1891?
Also Margaret
Wife of the above James Morrison
Who Died 13th? May 1903
Aged 62 Years
In Loving Memory of
My Dear Husband
John Morrison
Died 24th Jan 1916 Aged 35 Yrs
Also Infant Son James
Died 22nd Feb 1910
Also Jane Malseed
Only Daughter
Died 21st May 1918 Aged 11 Yrs
Also His Son John Alfred
Died 17th Sep 1941
And Elizabeth
Wife of above John Morrison
Died 1st Sep 1952
And Margaret
Wife of Alfred
Died 26th Aug 1960
"Sleep in Jesus"
In Loving Memory of
James Scott 1912
Carnafeagh
Jane Scott 1918
Joseph Scott 1924
John Scott 1967
Laura Scott 1976
Samuel Scott 1999
In Remembrance of
Edith Louise Shipley
Of Guildford Surry
Died 28th Feb 1961
Beloved Mother
A Smith
Wife of Thomas Smith
Died the 16th day of October 18?9 (39 or 89)
Aged 71? Years
In Loving Memory of
Rev Charles Robert Rowan Stack
(Vicar of Holy Trinity, Frome, Somerset for 40 Years)
Died in Rathmullan
21st December 1944
In Loving Memory of
John Wilson
Who Died 25th May 1863
Aged 63 Years
Also His Wife Rose
Who Died 3rd Jul 1888
Aged 68 Years
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