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School: Presentation Convent, Lucan

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Lucan, Co. Dublin
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Sr Gabriel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0793, Page 286

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    fitting monument of their sincere regret for the loss of that Worthy Clergyman, by whose death Society was deprived of a Valuable Member and Religion one of her most zealous Ministers. Lamentable to add he fell a victim to the Sacrilegious hand of a Sanguinary Banditti, by whom he was robbed and murdered on the Hill of Lucan on the 3rd day of June A.D. 1807, And in the 42nd Year of his Life.
    Requieseat in Pace
    Amen

    It is difficult to account for the mutilated condition of this tombstone otherwise than by the supposition of malicious ingury as from the marks on it, it would appear to have been deliberately broken, either
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Ronan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Chapel Hill, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mr T. Brady
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lucan, Co. Dublin