School: Naomh Peadar, Droichead Átha (roll number 11072)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Mac Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 132
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- There are interesting epitaphs in some old graveyards. There is one in [?] near Clogherhead worded:-Beneath this stone here lieth one,
Whom all his friends did please,
I hope to Heaven his soul is gone.
To find eternal ease.
He drank He sang,
While here on earth.
As happy as a lord
So now he has resigned his breath
God rest him - Paddy Ward
Died September 12th 1783.A priest at a later date thought it very unsuitable to have such an epitaph on a tombstone and got it taken off, but other authorities said he had not right to do so & made him get it done in the same manner again & it remains there still.
Near Drumconrath, Co Meath, Admiral Singleton gave some land for a new burial ground but he died himself before it was marked out & was the first to be buried there.
- Collector
- Louie Mathews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skylea, Co. Louth
