LA-BYAM-0093

Record Date: 
17 October 2013
Graveyard: 
Ballyadams
Exact wording of epitaph: 

ROBERT BOWEN

ALLIS HARPOLE

1631

IF TEARS PREVENT NOT, EVERY READER'S EYE

MAY WELL PRECEIVE THAT ON THIS TOMB DOTH LYE

FRIENDS' HOPE, FOES' DREAD, WHOSE THRICE VICTORIOUS HAND

GAIN'D LOVE, WROUGHT PEACE, WITHIN THIS JOYFUL LAND;

WHOSE WORTH DOTH MOUNT ITSELF ON ANGEL'S WINGS,

WHOSE GREAT DESCENT WAS FIRST FROM ROYAL KINGS;

WHOSE NEVER-DYING VIRTUES LIVE FOR WHY 

WHOSE FAME ETERNALIZED; IT CAN NEVER DYE


Memorial Type: 
Plaque
Grave location
County: 
Laois
Latitude: 
52.962616388889
Longitude: 
-7.0728947222222
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
ROBERT
Surname: 
BOWEN
Name: 
ALLIS
Surname: 
HARPOLE
Relationship with first person: 
WIFE