RO-KLBG-0190

Record Date: 
14 May 2016
Graveyard: 
Kilbegley
Exact wording of epitaph: 

I.H.S.

LORD HAVE MERCY

ON THE SOUL OF 

REV WILLIAM HARTE

P.P. OF MOORE

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

NOVEMBER 11 TH   1816

AGED 44 YEARS.

'THINK ON HIS END

PURSUE THE PATH HE TROD

AND LIKE HIM BE

SERVANT TO THY GOD

AS HE LIVED, RESPECTED

SO HE DIED LAMENTED'

Memorial Type: 
Ledger Slab
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.321599722222
Longitude: 
-8.1431125
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Rev
Name: 
Rev. William
Surname: 
Harte
Date of death - day: 
11
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1816
Age: 
44
Notes: 

This grave slab is part of a group of gravestones situated in the church ruins. This small area is enclosed with metal railings and a gate in the period between 1874 - 1878. This recumbent or ledger slab is very thick limestone and the script is very beautiful. 

Fr. William Harte was Parish Priest of Moore 1800 - 1816.

Fr William Harte was a nephew of Fr Redmond Duffy interred in plot 191.