Of your charity
pray for the soul of
The VERY REV JOHN RYAN D.D.V.C
who died 29th October 1885.
Aged 53 years
He was a good and great priest,
Gentle holy profoondly learned,
profoondly hormble,
loved and venerated by his people
Tenderly devoted to the poor,
for whose prayers
He was always most solicitous.
During the last fourteen years
of his life
He was the beloved pastor
of this his native parish
of Ballingarry
my he rest in peace