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The following details have been transcribed from the Journals titled, "Journal for the Memorials of the Dead" which can be found at County Carlow Library, Tullow Street, Carlow, Co Carlow IRELAND.
| Tullow
Parish.
We are pleased to learn that the ancient tomb of the O’Byrnes, in the burial-ground surrounding Tullow Parish Church, has recently been put in much-needed repair. A lady descendant of the family, who came to spend a few weeks’ holiday in her native town after many years’ absence, had her attention called to the matter by the Rector, the Rev. Canon Abbott, and she at once employed local tradesmen, and had all defective mason-work repaired, the stone pillars supporting the horizontal slab re-set, the body of the structure newly lined with brick, and some ornamental shrubs planted around, thus giving this venerable memorial a new lease of live for some time to come. The inscription on the tomb, which dates from 1625, has been already published in the Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, vol. ii, page 445. JPMD, Vol IV, Issue 1898 - 1900, CARLOW, Pages 6 & 7. The Parish of
Tullowphelim ― (From Lord Walter Fitzgerald.) The town of Tullow contains three burial-grounds – St. Austin’s Abbey, The Mullaun, and the Protestant Church burial-ground. In the latter there are two ancient limestone slabs, much weather worn, and very similar in size, design and inscription: one is erected to the Byrne family, and the other to a family of the name of Mottly. *The date of her death was never filled in. "The Edmundus Carcli Byrne "I would read "Edmund son of Charles Byrne." The Byrne slab measures 6ft. 8 inches in length, 8 feet 1 inch in breadth, and 6 inches in thickness. The measurements of the Mottly slab are 6 ft. 5inches long, 8 feet broad and 6 inches thick. Down the centre of both slabs runs an ornamental five-armed cross with an interlaced stem; the arms end off in the fluer-de-lys, and the head consists of three concentric circles. On either side of the stem can be traced emblems of our Lord’s Passion and Crucifixion; but the devices, originally in low relief, are now so much worn that it is very difficult to distinguish the emblems, In each slab, one end and one side are bevelled underneath; the other end and side rough. The sculptor of these slabs was one Murtagh Murray, whose name appears on the Byrne slab. The inscriptions have already appeared on page 445. vol ii, of the Reports on the Memorials of the Dead Ireland,’ copied from Ryans "History of the Count Carlow;" but as they are incorrectly and incompletely deciphered, I now give them in full. I am able to do this, as a large portion of the epitaph on one is given word for word on the other slab, so that what is undecipherable on one slab can be made good from the other. The lettering is in low relief, and on the Byrne slab varies in size. The literal translation of the epitaph ( for which thanks JPMD, Vol IV, Issue 1898 - 1900, CARLOW, Page 186 & 187. are due to the Rev. J. L. Jesson) occurs on both the slabs, and is as follows :―
According to a County Carlow Chancery Inquisition (No. 60 of Charles I,), Gerrald mac Murtagh Kavanagh and Edmund mac Gerrald Kavanagh mortgaged Castletown, als Ballyknockane, for the sum of £203 15s. to Teige O'Gormagan of Newtown, in the County Carlow, and to Walter Mottley of Tullow, merchant. These premises were redeemed by Moriarty oge Kavanagh (son and heir of the aforesaid Edmund), of Garryhill, in the year 1636. We find a Thady O'Gormagan named in the Regal Visitation Book, 1615, under Aghade and Ardristan. In one of the volumes of Funeral Entries in Ulster's Office, I have come across the following extract :― "WALTER MOTLY
of Tullaphelim in the County of Catherlagh gent., deceased, 3rd son of THOMAS
MOTLY of Athy. JAMES eldest
sonne, who tooke to wife UNY daughter of TEIGE
GORMOGAN, of Newtowne in the said county, Esqr. JPMD, Vol IV., Issue 1898 - 1900, CARLOW, Page 188. Tullow Churchyard [Contributed by Miss A. Peter, from an old notebook of 1837.] HERE LIETH THE BODY OF MRS
MARY JPMD, Vol VIII., Issue 1910 - 1912, CARLOW, Page 237. HERE LIETH THE REMAINS OF ______ THE FAMILY
CEMETERY ______ UNDER THIS STONE
ARE DEPOSITED JPMD, Vol VIII., Issue 1910 - 1912,
CARLOW, Page 238. [From Lord Walter FitzGerald.] [PICTURE] THE
MOTTLY SLAB OF 1626, IN THE TULLOW CHURCHYARD, CO. CARLOW. 'On the opposite page is shown a 'rubbing' of the seventeenth century Mottly slab, which has already been described on p. 187, vol. iv, of the JOURNAL ; the Latin part of the inscription reads' :―
Terra
fui quondam, rursus sum terra, nihil sum, terra
caduca
vale, vermes salucie, recudo. [i.e. ―
I once was
dust,
I am dust again, I am nothing else. Farewell,
frail
earth; hail, O worms, I lay me down].
Among the
older inscriptions in the burial-ground are the following' ;―
'On a
headstone with a peculiar conical-shaped top on the south side' :―
Here
Lyeth the | Body of Richard Wlash of
| Tullow
who Departed this | Life April the 17th day 1765 |
Aged
64 years with 6 of his | children as also Richard |
Moore
his grandson who | Departed this life
April 26 |
1764 | Aged
7 yrs
May they rest | Peace Amen.
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'On a
flat slab' :―
Thomas
Brewster of Tullow | Departed this life the
8th
day of |
March 1754 in the 65th
year of his age |
Margaret
Brewster wife of | faid Thomas Brewster
Departed
| this life the 6th
day of May 1769 | in the 75th
year
of her age | Here lieth also the Body of John |
Brewster
Esqr
son of the above mentioned | Thomas
and
Margaret who Departed | this life on the second
day
of March 1786 | Aged 63 years
'On a
small headstone at the west end near the wall' :―
Here
lies ye Body of I Ellinor dougherty who |
Departed
ye 1 day of iune
| 1750, Aged 53 years
"A
flat slab at the west end, near the church tower, difficult to
decipher' :―
Here
lieth the Body of Mary | lames the wife of JPMD, Vol, Issue 1916, CARLOW, Page 19. |
Tullow
Parish.
On a table-tomb at the west end’ :― Erected by Christmas More in Memory ______ ‘On a flat slab at the west end’ :― Here lieth the Body of Alice Burgess who ______ ‘Tullow Chruch is dedicated to St. Columbkill. The Worcestershire antiquiary, Thomas Dineley, who visited Tullow in 1680, thus alludes to the church in his diary, :― "Tullagh hath one parochial church dedicated to St. Columb, which saint is sayd to be buried in Down Patrick, in the North of Ireland, in the County of Down, with two other capitall saints, St. Bridget and St. Patrick. "St. Columb’s Church is also made use of for a schoolhouse; in the churchyard is seen the fantasticall monument on the other side, which I touched off for want of a better remark upon the place"* (This is the Byrne slab of 1625 described in the JOURNAL, vol. iv, pp. 186-8.) ‘The inscriptions on pages *237 and *238 of volume viii given Under Tullow, County Carlow, belong to Tallaght, County Dublin.’ *Kilkenny Arch. Journal, vol. for 1862, p. 49 JPMD, Vol IX, Issue 1916, CARLOW, Page 20. Tullow, the Augustinian Abbey Burial-ground. [From Lord Walter FitzGerald] 'This burial-ground lies on
the south side of the town, and close to the River Slaney. There
exists no trace of the Abbey buildings, the date of the foundation of
which is also unknown. JPMD, Vol
IX, Issue 1916, CARLOW, Page 225. near the entrance gate; it has a
socket in it, is 8 ½ inches square and 8 inches in depth. It probably was
used to stand a cross in. ‘A
large cross-head is now built upright on the top of
an arched Recess, covering a well, in the east wall of the
burial-ground; Though ringed, it is not perforated; and though the front
and back Re plain, there are traces of Celtic patterns at the sides.
According To tradition this cross-head was brought from an adjoining field
on The townland of Templeowen (i.e. ‘A box-tomb’:— Here
Lieth the Body of the Revd I Thos Byrne who
departed this life I Murphy, Tullow ______ ‘A
box-tomb’:— Here
lyeth the Body of Daniel I Nowlan who departed this life I ye
14th of Agust (sic)
1758 (or 1738) Aged 22 years ______ ‘On a
flat slab, very faint’:— This Tomb
is Erected by Garret I Dwyer in Memory of his Father I John
Dwyer who depd this life I January the 15th
1814 Aged 91 years I Also his Mother Elizabeth Dwyer I who
depd this life ______ Table tomb at the west end, inscription faint’:—
JPMD, Vol IX, Issue 1916, CARLOW, Page 226.
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‘On a table-tomb’:--
Erected to the Memory of William Kelly I and William Murphy both of Tullow
I who departed the Second day of
I June 1798. William Kelly aged 26 I and William Murphy aged 27 years Also
I James Kelly who departed the 6th of I August (sic)
1806 aged 67 years, alo his Wife Margaret Kelly who departed the 6th
I of June 1809 aged 50 years. I Margaret Doherty daughter of I James Kelly
late of Ballymurphy, died I 31st Augst 1847 aged 30
years I Patk Kelly late of Tullow died 22nd
I Octobr 1843 aged 66 years I Also William Bolger, Cannon’s
Quarter, who I died July 13th 1894 aged 76 years Lord have Mercy on
their Souls Amen JPMD,
Vol IX, Issue 1916, CARLOW, Page 227. Tullow ― Parish. Cross-base at Mount Wolseley House. 'In the garden at Mount Wolseley is a much battered block of/ limestone, once the base of a wayside (?) cross ; it bears traces of/ inscriptions on the sides, but unfortunately not enough now re-/mains to make out a single word. The letters are 3¼ inches in/ length ; those on the least damaged side of the stone are shown/ here' :― [PICTURE] JPMD, Vol VI, Issue 1904 -05 - 1906, CARLOW, Page 218.
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I have endeavoured to be as accurate as possible in transcribing the information from the various sources however it is possible that errors may have occurred. Data should be verified against original copies and sources.
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